Bowe (Boudewijn de Jong) was born in 1978 in Velp, The Netherlands. He started playing the piano at a very young age. When he was a teenager, the piano was replaced by a guitar. Because he disliked music lessons he decided to teach himself how to play. To do so, he picked up a guitar from a right handed friend and tried to strum his first chords. For Bowe this didn’t feel right at all, so he simply turned the instrument around and learned how to play upside down. Later he found out that this way of playing has both advantages and disadvantages. He decided to benefit as much as possible from the advantages and take the disadvantages for granted. His playing style has led to a unique approach to writing songs. His first album Moving through the Night was released in 2009. Bowe was influenced by a wide variety of artists such as The Rolling Stones and Crowded House. The album can be described as pop oriented with both up-tempo songs and some ballads. His second album Nomansland was released in 2013. It features special guest performances by Sandra St. Victor (The Family Stand and Prince) and Tollak Ollestad (Don Henley, Seal). After Nomansland, Bowe started releasing singles instead of albums. His 2016 single Relax Relax Relax did really well on Dutch radio. It was also used in a commercial on TV and Radio. In 2018 Bowe released his first single in Dutch, called Rum Cola. Later Jong & Knap followed and Laat me Leven with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2020 Bowe's track Tired of giving good things up hit De Verrukkelijke 15 charts on NPO Radio 2 and the song made it to the playlists of NPO Radio 2 and Radio Veronica.