About

Growing up, Kiki Deirdre was introduced to music by artists like Leonard Cohen, The Waterboys, and many great Dutch musicians, including Maarten van Roozendaal. At the age of twelve, she discovered Mahogany and Cardinal Sessions on YouTube, which introduced her to contemporary folk influences like Rachel Sermanni and Johnny Flynn. After school, she would spend hours scrolling through hundreds of videos, watching artists showcase their craft. By discovering some of her all-time favourite artists through these platforms and reading the works of writers like Allen Ginsberg and Rainer Maria Rilke, she developed a deep appreciation for intimate storytelling and poetic lyricism. This led her to pick up the guitar and begin writing her own songs, blending music and poetry to express her thoughts and emotions. 

At thirteen, she recorded her first song in a small classroom at her high school. After that, most of the songs she wrote were poems set to music — simple, personal, cryptic, but full of potential. She often wrote about her confusion and struggle to find her place in a world she couldn't understand. This confusion manifested directly in her music and writing; often oddly structured, very long or short songs, poems, or stories played on a stratocaster or steel-string guitar. 

To this day Kiki Deirdre's repertoire still mainly consists of songs appreciating the sound of the acoustic guitar. You can say that her current music is a mix of her old and new songwriting styles — both cryptic and painfully direct, with a critical perspective on today's society. Her live performances, whether with a band or solo, are intimate and draw you in as if you're part of a personal conversation. With a powerful voice, she invites her audience to experience the layered emotions in her music. Her songs resonate with those who aren't afraid to feel and reflect, who seek something genuine, and who appreciate music that comes from a place of deep emotion and love for life.

While Kiki Deirdre began by writing mostly in English, she now also writes and performs in Dutch. In her latest project, she brings memories from her childhood in Zeeland to life, pulling them from the muddy polders and turning them into stories that take you back to a time when dirty boots, the smell of the mudflats, biting winds, cycling along long dikes, and stamppot (a traditional Dutch dish) were the heart of it all. Over the span of 3 months, she wrote and recorded several songs inspired by her experiences in the coastal province where she grew up. This quick-fire writing and recording process led to a raw and candid EP, featuring 6 songs and 1 interlude. These songs combine nostalgia, honesty, and humour – poetic, yet always with her feet firmly rooted in the Zeeland mud. She celebrated the release and her creative process with an exclusive event at De Nijverheid in Utrecht. Only 1 of the 7 tracks from her latest Dutch EP, Over Zeeland, is available online. Listen here to Zeeland, sneeuwwit. She released 25 exclusive EPs in February 2025, but the official release date for her first Dutch EP is yet to be announced.