Background
Laroo was born in de Jordaan in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as the eldest of four daughters.
composer trumpeter jazz musician
Laroo was born in de Jordaan in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as the eldest of four daughters.
A year later she went to the Conservatory of Alkmaar, where she studied trumpet, piano and upright bass. In 1985, when she was 25, she graduated as a jazz trumpet music teacher at the Conservatory of Hilversum.
When she was six the family moved to Den Ilp, a nearby village. Laroo went to secondary school in Zaandam. In Den Ilp she played the cornet in fanfare orchestra De Eendracht.
On her 18th she moved back to Amsterdam to study mathematics, but instead soon got involved in the city"s music scene, and switched to trumpet.
Later on in her career she played with Wynton Marsalis, Toots Thielemans, Roy Hargrove, Teddy Edwards and Warren Byrd. In 1982 she made her first recordings as a side manitoba
Amongst others she played a solo on a song for Billy Preston"s album: You can"t keep a good man down, and in 1994 she founded her own record label, Laroo Records. Her first Civil Defense album "lieutenant"s Like Jazz"(1994), was co-produced with Rob Gaasterland, and was released in more than fifteen countries, amongst others in Japan, and speeded up the development of her international career.
She toured with her own formations, amongst others with the Saskia Laroo Band, Jazzkia and Duo Laroo/Byrd to countries such as the United States of America, Canada, South Africa in 1996 en 2007, Brazilie, China in 2004 and 2007 and ze did 10 tours in India.
In 2013 she recorded a Digital Video Disc Live in Zimbabwe with her eight piece Saskia Laroo Band at the Harare International Festival of the Arts.