Herman Brood (pronounced "Broat" /bro:t/;
Zwolle,
November 5,
1946 –
Amsterdam,
July 11,
2001) was a
Dutch musician,
painter and
media personality. Brood was the Dutch
personification of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll".After playing
piano in
Cuby and the Blizzards and several other bands since
1964, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood and His Wild Romance, in
1977. The band had their first hit single, Saturday Night, in
1978. But even more than his music, it was his outspoken statements in the press about sex and
drug use that brought Herman Brood into the public arena in the Netherlands. In the early
1980s he was romantically involved with the
German artist,
Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the film Cha Cha. Brood relished the media attention and became the most famous
hard drug user in the Netherlands. "It is usual that an artist uses drugs, but tells everybody he doesn't. I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs", he once said in an interview. In the
1990s he took up painting and became as successful as a painter as he was as a musician.
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