Welcome at the official site of Pierre Kartner / Vader Abraham!
Short
Biography Pierre Kartner alias Father Abraham Pierre Kartner alias Father Abraham,
the performer, composer, lyricist, producer and talentscout was
born in a small town in the Netherlands by the name of Elst. The
first sign of his artistic ambitions showed at the age of eight,
when he was chosen no. 1 in a radio-songcontest. His first instrument
was the guitar. Soon he played also fluently the piano and bassfidle.
His favorite is however still the guitar.
As a composer and lyricist Pierre has created numerous golden hitrecords
for many Dutch and internationally known top artists such as PETER
ALEXANDER (Germany) and NANA MOUSKOURI,
JOE DASSIN, MIREILLE
MATHIEU (France), THE FUREYS
(Ireland), ENGELBERT HUMPER-DINCK (UK),
AUDREY LANDERS (USA), ANDRE RIEU
(Netherlands), IREEN SHEER
(Germany) and many others.
He has the ability to link up catching melodies with subjects in
lyrics, liked by everyone of any age.
Contacting
us:
You are welcome to contact
us for all publishing and licensing matters, and of course all your
other questions.
Postal
address: Vader Abraham Producten
/ Uitgeverij bv
P.O. Box 4758, 4803 ET Breda, Netherlands
Smurfsong
The success of the "SMURFSONG", written, composed and performed
by himself and seven weeks a number one hit in the Dutch charts,
was the beginning of a Smurf-record craze that soon was to sweep
the entire world (more then 25 million copies sold worldwide)
reaching number one positions in many countries from the UK to Mexico,
and Germany to Spain.
This shows the true evidence of his capacity to reach people worldwide,
regardless of their age, tongue or social background. In the role
as composer/author/producer Pierre received over 128 gold and platinum
records.
Red rose cafe
However the masterpiece he wrote and composed back in the 70’s
is the song called “Het kleine cafe aan de haven” (in English: The
red rose cafe in French: Le café des trois colombes, in the German
language: Die Kleine Kneipe). Meanwhile this song has been covered
by many top artists all over de world. Currently more then 250
covers and counting.
Film
music (Moomins)
Pierre is also involved in writing film music (underscore). Apart
from being responsible for all the Moomin songs worldwide (The Moomins
is a stop motion animated children's television series based on
the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books and amongst others very
populair in the scandinavian countries), he also wrote the underscore
for the featurefilm. In Finland they are called “Muumi”, in Sweden
“Mumin”, and in Holland “De Moomins”, to name a few. In Scandinavia
there are more then two million copies sold of the Moomin DVD series
with music written by Pierre!
Performer,
talent scout
On stage, citizen Pierre Kartner changes into a performing artist
of certain age, called Father Abraham. Wearing owl-like spectacles
and a bowler, singing songs about daily life with a warm and tender
voice. Working as talentscout in his home country, he discovered
and trained many young promising artists to become top stars and
all of them had their records rewarded in gold.
