Karel Boehlee, Born in Leiden, Holland, April 23, 1960 Started playing the piano very young, when his father brought jazz music into his life, Karel's mother played classical music for fun, his brother loved afro-american music, like James Brown, Stevie Wonder Aretha Franklin etc. his sister was more into popmusic. It created the right environment to gather many music styles. Boehlee learned to play the piano by listening, not through lessons. He started to realise that he wanted to be a professional musician, when he was more than 20 years old. In 1983 he studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Since then Karel Boehlee played with Toon Roos, Martijn van Iterson, Peter Tiehuis, Ferdinand Povel, Theo de Jong, Jesse van Ruller, Woody Shaw, Simone Pormes, Toots Thielemans, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Roberta Gambarini, Wynton Marsalis, Lo van Gorp, Hein van de Geyn, Martijn Vink, Gino Vannelli, Joris Roelofs, Ben Herman, Philip Catherine, Hans ...