Candy Dulfer is a smooth jazz alto saxophone player who was born in the Netherlands. A backup member of Prince's band, she recorded the 1991 hit "Lily Was Here," and that song began a long and successful career.
Dulfer is the daughter of tenor saxophonist Hans Dulfer, and they collaborated together on a duets album.
She has become an inspiration to other female instrumentalists, including guitarist Joyce Cooling and saxophonists Pamela Williams and Mindi Abair.
Discography
- Saxuality (1991)
- Sax-a-Go-Go (1993)
- For the Love of You (1997)
- The Best of Candy Dulfer (1998)
- What Does it Take (1999)
- Dulfer & Dulfer (2001, a collaboration with her father Hans Dulfer)
- Right into My Soul (2003)