Angel-Eye

Angel-Eye
Angel-Eye
Angel-Eye
Background information
Born
Angela Brouwers

(1974-09-11) 11 September 1974 (age 52)
Bunde, Netherlands
Genres
OccupationsSinger, composer, record producer
Instruments
  • Piano
  • guitar
  • saxophone
Years active1994–present
Spouse
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(m. 2010)​

Angela Shuman (née Brouwers; born 11 September 1974), known professionally as Angel-Eye, is a Dutch singer, composer and record producer. Around 2000 she wrote music for commercials and for Belgian artists. Since 2003 she has performed with René Shuman as the duo Shuman & Angel-Eye.

Early life and education

As a child, Brouwers played the saxophone in a local wind band and the guitar in pop bands. She studied piano with the jazz pianist Frank Giebels at the conservatory in Maastricht. She entered the conservatory at seventeen, and a year later set up her own studio and production company, AudioNet.

Career

Advertising music

With AudioNet she wrote music for radio and television commercials, including campaigns for Arke, Profiel de Fietsspecialist, Sony and Rabobank. With Shuman she composed the music for an Audi television commercial that was also broadcast outside the Netherlands.

Belgium

In Belgium she wrote for other artists. Les vacances d'été, which she wrote for Kim Kay, reached number 18 in the charts, and she worked on DJ Peter's The Party Plane, which reached number 6. She signed with EMI as the singer of Tiger Tiger, a Belgian project for which Guy Chambers, the regular songwriter of Robbie Williams, wrote the song I'm So High. The single entered the High Rotation Top 30 of the music channel TMF.

Her stage name came from her website, on which she called herself "the virtual artist": Angel refers to her first name, and Eye to the world she showed there through her own eyes.

Shuman & Angel-Eye

In 2000 Shuman saw her in a television documentary and got in touch with her. They worked together on his album Set the Clock on Rock and have performed as a duo since 2003. Their version of "Don't Be Cruel" reached number 13 on the Dutch Top 40 that year. In 2004 the weekly magazine Margriet ran a four-page feature on her work as a composer, producer and performer.

The duo mainly performs rock and roll, including many songs by Elvis Presley, and has held memorial concerts for him since 2003. In October 2017, forty years after Presley's death, Omroep MAX broadcast their memorial show Elvis & More in its series Max Muziekspecials, with guests including Lee Towers. Two more specials followed on MAX in 2018. The duo also appeared on television programmes such as TROS Muziekfeest op het ijs (2007), the Omroepfeest (2011) and MAX's Tinekeshow.

In 2020, together with students of Maastricht University, the duo took part in the first AI Song Contest, an initiative of VPRO and NPO 3FM. Their entry, I Write A Song, was written with the help of artificial intelligence.

Personal life

Angel-Eye married René Shuman in Hawaii on 14 February 2010.

Charts

YearTitleArtistDutch Top 40Single Top 100
2003"Don't Be Cruel"Shuman & Angel-Eye1312
2006"Magic Ride"René Shuman & Angel-Eye–20

References

  1. 1 2 Groenendijk, Marjolein. "Extra show ter ere van Elvis". Algemeen Dagblad. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Cortenraad, Jos. "René Shuman en Angel-Eye: de perfecte combinatie". www.nummer1.nl. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Salden, Bert (11 November 2001). "Limburgse Angela schreef hit voor Audi". ZondagsNieuws (in Dutch). No. 45.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 van den Muijsenberg, Frank. "René Shuman en Angel-Eye eren sterren van de rock-'n-roll in Eindhoven" (in Dutch). Eindhovens Dagblad. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Liefde motiveert René Shuman" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Beijer, Wiel (26 October 2000). "Virtuele artiest is ook van vlees en bloed". Scala. Dagblad De Limburger (in Dutch).
  7. 1 2 Nanninga, Wilma (13 November 2003). "René Shuman en Angel-Eye swingen in de muziek en de liefde". Privé. De Telegraaf (in Dutch).
  8. 1 2 "Een week uit het leven van Angel-Eye". Margriet (in Dutch). No. 30. 2004. pp. 42–45.
  9. 1 2 "Shuman & Angel-Eye – Don't Be Cruel" (in Dutch). Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.
  10. ↑ "Max Muziekspecials: Elvis & More 2017 (1/2)". TVblik (in Dutch). 14 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "Television broadcasts featuring René Shuman & Angel-Eye". De Schatkamer (in Dutch). Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
  12. ↑ "Omroepfeest 2011". De Schatkamer (in Dutch). Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. 3 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "UM-studenten doen mee aan eerste internationale songfestival voor kunstmatige intelligentie" (in Dutch). Maastricht University. 14 April 2020.
  14. ↑ "Nederland – COMPUTD / Shuman&Angel-Eye". Het AI Songfestival (in Dutch). VPRO.
  15. ↑ "René Shuman geeft jawoord op Hawaï" (in Dutch). Het Parool. 18 December 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  16. ↑ "Shuman & Angel-Eye – Don't Be Cruel". dutchcharts.nl.
  17. ↑ "René Shuman & Angel-Eye – Magic Ride". dutchcharts.nl.