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Peter Schaap
Person · male · Kingdom of the Netherlands · Groningen · born 1946 · died 2025
Dutch singer and writer (1946-2025)
Timeline
1940s
2020s
Biography
Biography
Peter Schaap (24 October 1946 – 3 January 2025) was a Dutch singer and writer.
Life and career
Schaap was born in Groningen. He started his music career in 1974. He released four LPs and a CD. After 1982 he turned to writing and wrote several children's books and science fiction and fantasy novels. He was published in the M=SF range of the Dutch publisher Meulenhoff.
Schaap died on 3 January 2025, at the age of 78.
Children and youth books
Prinses Esmarijntje en de wensdiamant (1975)
De floepstengel (1976)
De frietmobiel (1976)
Het opmeneertje (1976)
Avontuur aan de hudsonbaai (1981)
Het gouden schip : een avontuur in het oude egypte (1986)
Het kind in de emmer en andere verhalen (1992)
De winter van de mammoet (1993)
Storm aan de witte kust (1994)
Vlucht door de vennen (1995)
Gravers (1996)
De bende van Michalis (1997)
Beeldhouwer voor de farao (2000)
Teun Palm (2008)
Emy Vels (2008)
Akan van het hunebed (2009)
Fantasy
De schrijvenaar van Thyll (1987)
Ondeeds de Loutere (1988)
De wolver (1989)
Tweesprook (1990) (kort verhaal - 1 band samen met Wim Gijsen)
Kalyndra (1990) (=Wolver deel 2)
Wolversdochter (1991) (=Wolver deel 3)
De bruiden van Tyobar (1992)
Zonen van chaos (1993)
Het woud van de maker (1999)
De vallei van de geesten (1999)
Schaduw en elfenvuur (2000) (= Schaduwmeesters deel 1)
Schaduw en dwergenstaal (2002) (= Schaduwmeesters deel 2)
Schaduw en drakenstof (2003) (= Schaduwmeesters deel 3)
Stormbreker (2008)
Prehistoric fantasy
Ogen van ivoor (1994) (Tetralogie deel 1)
Het teken van het steppenpaard (1996) (Tetralogie deel 2)
Kinderen van de aardvrouw (1996) (Tetralogie deel 3)
Het lied van de steen (1999) (Tetralogie deel 4)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Peter Schaap head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Silver Harp | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Schaap.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2546354seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schaapbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schaap
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Dutch musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q2546354 · MusicBrainz: —