Artist: Candy Dulfer

Candy Dulfer is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her debut album  Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy nomination.

She has performed and recorded with Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, Angie Stone, Maceo Parker and Rick Braun and has performed live with Alan Parsons (1995), Pink Floyd (1990), and T ower of Power (2014). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy Meets...  (2007), in which she interviewed musicians. In 2013, she became a judge in the 5th season of the Dutch version of X Factor. 

Dulfer was born in 1969 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and started playing the drums at age five. At age 6, she started to play the soprano saxophone. At age seven, she switched to alto saxophone and later began playing in a local concert band Jeugd Doet Leven (English translation: "Youth Brings Life") in Zuiderwoude. 

Dulfer played her first solo on stage with her father's band De Perikels ("The Perils"). At age eleven, she made her first recordings for the album I Didn't Ask  (1981) of De Perikels. In 1982, when she was twelve years old, she played as a member of Rosa King's Ladies Horn section at the North Sea Jazz Festival. According to Dulfer, King encouraged her to become a band leader. In 1984, at age fourteen, she started the band Funky Stuff. 

Dulfer's band performed throughout the Netherlands and in 1987 was the opening act for two of  Madonna's European concerts. In 1988, Prince  invited Dulfer on stage to play an improvised solo during one of his European shows. In 1989 Dulfer appeared in Prince's "Partyman" video. 

Dulfer performed session work with Eurythmics guitarist and producer Dave Stewart, duetting with him on the worldwide hit single "Lily Was Here," and contributing to the soundtrack of the same name.