At a very young age (14) Bert Smeets start writing his own material and that’s what he’s still doing to-day, so he’s a singer-songwriter
Bert played in bands like HOLE AND CORNER; THE CLAN; BERT SMITH AND THE KEY and ANGELS IN BETWEEN. Bert played as a split-act with FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, FAIRPORT CONVENTION; CAMEL; THE TROGGS, CANDY DULFER’S FUNKY STUFF, FISHER Z, ALQUIN; CCC INC. ARNO. In 1999 BERT met the Russian group EY UCHNJEM. Very soon they became friends, working together. In 2000 Bert did a tour with EY UCHNJEM (*) in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany. In 2001 they record their first album “LUKOMORYE”! The making of their first CD together, documentary was filmed by Louw Houtvast.
The film is called “LUKOMORYE” too. In November, December 2001 Bert traveled to Russia for the second tour. He played in towns in Russia where never performed a foreign artist before.
Wodkalinka doc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUxITDZhzI&t=19s
Recently he wrote The Climate Song with Noémi Shirin and Martín Saéz del Val. (see FB / YT for the clip Climate Song Bert Smeets & Los AmEcos
Latest release ‘Still Loving You’, coming soon! Also he joined the Bandcamp community
https://bertsmeets.bandcamp.com/track/lonely-life?fbclid=IwAR1Cp21tqGapRvliMKX9tA3XRGlI96zRnno1mQQB18qYQ8CMOH6UBJzICxw
https://bertsmeets.bandcamp.com/track/still-loving-you
https://bertsmeets.bandcamp.com
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Rumbi: https://youtu.be/5w3Kj7VwOck;
Looking In The Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLs3yq_53V8