ABOUT

WHO • WHAT • When

Tessa Lamers is a singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a genre-bending artist, she moves effortlessly across styles that resist easy categorization, guided by a sensitivity and curiosity she has learned to embrace and weave into her craft.

With an eclectic musical background where pop was a long time focus, she’s always looking for that space in between, where things become timeless. With a broadly trained voice, she sings with piercing focus and a distinctive sense of storytelling. Her sound can be described as ethereal yet powerful — combining crystalline lightness with raw emotional texture. Her voice has often been compared to those of Florence Welch and Björk.
Strong songwriting and composition remain at the centre of her work: music shaped by melodic contrast, jazz-influenced harmonies and room for improvisation and interpretation, built on groove.

With her antennae always pointing outwards, she gets inspiration from how she perceives the world around her. Analysing her own brain, nervous system, emotions, relationships and detecting sceneries like crowded train stations, views of a haze surrounding the moon, or an upside down perspective of a landscape. With extreme curiosity she likes to test unknown waters and with incredible sensitivity she’s able to tune in to the people she works with. On and off-stage.
Music that influenced and shaped her music along the way goes from contemporary classical music and folk to pop and eventually jazz. Artists like David Bowie, Radiohead, Björk, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Regina Spektor, Kimbra and Guy Garvey (Elbow), but also Chet Baker and Tom Skinner are big influences on her music.

Tessa has been active in the music scene for over fifteen years. She graduated from Codarts University of the Arts in 2017 with principal subjects in vocals and songwriting. A professionally trained vocalist — studying with teachers such as Harjo Pasveer, Simone Roerade and Margriet Sjoerdsma — she developed a strong sense of groove and rhythmical texture, alongside a natural talent for vocal improvisation, layering and the use of live vocal effects. She has a minor in producing, improvisation in the 21^st century (soulful grooves in the 21st Century by Willem Tanke) and choir conducting and she developed a rich palette in vocal sound, composition and creative vision. Yet gut feeling, heart and sensitivity are central in every aspect of her work.

Tessa Lamers grew up in Groesbeek, a small town in the south-east of The Netherlands.
From a young age she started classical ballet and she sang as soon as she could talk (cliché but true). She wrote her first song at the age of 14 and taught herself to play guitar. She took vocal-lessons with Marijke Hörmann and from there she studied at Rock City Institute in Eindhoven. After which she got accepted at Codarts University of the Arts in 2013.

As a bandleader, she developed her own art-pop project L’Asset, with which she toured the UK in 2017 was in the finals of Sena Grote Prijs van Rotterdam in 2016, won the Haarlemse Rob Acda Award, and performed on the main stage of Bevrijdingspop in 2023. The following year she released the EP Biology. Tessa was also part of the trip-poptronica group Lowaddicts, where she worked as a singer, songwriter and strings-composer. She worked with renowned producers like Frankie Harper (UK), Holger Schwedt (Di-rect, Anouk) en Tessa Rose Jackson.

Currently Tessa is working on a new project (t.b.a. soon), for which she works together with jazz-musicians Eloi Pascual (drums, ES), Fabien Vuattoux (guitar, FR) and Aniol Torrents (bass, ES). She is also exploring the world as a jazzvocalist and is open for sessions. New project to be expected in 2026.