Mart Hoogkamer has had no contact with his father for a year. The singer revealed this on Thursday during the album presentation of his new album Ik (Me). “People don’t know what can be going on at home.”
Hoogkamer became visibly emotional while listening to his new album. “I haven’t had contact with my father for a year,” he told De Telegraaf. “And when I hear Mama, waar is papa? (Mom, where’s Dad?) (a song from his new album, ed.) again, I feel like that little eight-year-old kid who screamed that to his mother.”
Since the 27-year-old singer himself became a father to a daughter, he finds it even more difficult that he no longer speaks to his father. “My little one is half a year old now,” he says. “That does play a role.”
Whether his father misses his granddaughter, he finds it difficult to say. “That is also the question for me. It has never been answered to me.”
Hoogkamer and his girlfriend Jennifer had a daughter, Logan Nová, in January. The two have been together for five years. In 2021, he broke through with the hit Ik ga zwemmen (I’m going swimming). The song reached the first place in the Dutch Top 40 and the Dutch Single Top 40.