Editing Candy Dulfer (section)

==Early life==
[[Image:Candy Dulfer.jpg|thumb|Candy Dulfer in 2002]]
[[Image:Candy Dulfer - Leverkusener Jazztage 2016-AL1608.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|Candy Dulfer in 2016]]

Dulfer was born on 19 September 1969 in [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands.<ref name="biohomepage">{{cite web |url=https://candydulfer.nl/biography |title=Candy Dulfer. Bio. Full bio |access-date=15 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627113634/https://candydulfer.nl/biography/ |archive-date=27 June 2022 |url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> She began playing the drums at the age of five.<ref name="biopopinstituut">{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.popinstituut.nl/biografie/candy_dulfer.878.html Candy Dulfer biografie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222163401/http://www.popinstituut.nl/biografie/candy_dulfer.878.html# |date=22 December 2007 }}. Retrieved on 27 November 2007.</ref> As a six-year-old, 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]].<ref name="biopopinstituut"/>

Dulfer played her first solo on stage with her father's band De Perikels ("The Perils").<ref name="biohomepage"/> At age 11, she made her first recordings for the album ''I Didn't Ask'' (1981) of De Perikels.<ref name="biopopinstituut"/> In 1982, when she was 12 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 14, she started the band Funky Stuff.<ref name="biohomepage"/>