Cornelis Johannes "Cesar" Zuiderwijk, (born 18 July 1948) is a Dutch drummer. He is best known as the drummer of the Dutch
rock band
Golden Earring
Golden Earring (originally known as The Tornados) was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Golden Earrings. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs " Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on ...
from 1970 until their retirement in 2021.
Biography
When Zuiderwijk was twelve he started playing the guitar, but switched to drums two years later. He has been a drummer in a number of bands; his school band René & His Alligators, plus Hu & the Hilltops and Livin' Blues.
He was asked to replace Golden Earring drummer Sieb Warner in 1970. Since then, apart from brief line-ups of five (with
Robert Jan Stips and later
Eelco Gelling
Eelco Gelling (born 12 June 1946) is a Dutch blues guitarist. Gelling played with Cuby + Blizzards (which he co-founded together with Harry Muskee) until 1976.
Cuby + Blizzards (1966–1974)
Cuby + Blizzards (C+B) was founded by Eelco Gelling a ...
), Golden Earring has consisted of the same four friends (Zuiderwijk,
George Kooymans
George Jan Kooymans (born 11 March 1948, The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring. Kooymans wrote " Twilight Zone", the group's only Top 10 Pop Single on the US ' ...
,
Barry Hay and
Rinus Gerritsen). Zuiderwijk is known to add a drum solo to each performance, which he concludes by launching himself over his drum kit.
In September 1992, Zuiderwijk and his Golden Earring bandmates joined at least a thousand other drummers to play "
Radar Love" on the
Maasvlakte
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in
Rotterdam
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. In 1999 he was invited by
War Child to teach children in the
Bosnia
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n town
Mostar
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Mostar is sit ...
, to play drums. In 2000 he went on
tour with Percossa Percussion as members of Golden Earring took a year off. The theatre show "Alle gekheid met een stokje" consisted of sketches, drum escapades and stories.
In 2014, Zuiderwijk was asked by Veronica DJ Silvan Stoet to attend the Spring Rhythm Event organized by the DJ and the Dutch Longfonds organization.
References
External links
Golden Earring websiteMusicstation.nl
(in Dutch)
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1948 births
Living people
Golden Earring members
Dutch rock drummers
Male drummers
Musicians from The Hague