{{Short description|Belgian singer-songwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Maarten Devoldere | image = Balthazar Rocken am Brocken 2014 06.JPG | caption = Maarten Devoldere in 2013 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{bya|1987}} | birth_place = Ghent | death_date = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} | death_place = | genre = {{hlist| soft rock | ballads | alt-pop }} | occupation = {{hlist|Singer-songwriter|poet|producer}} | instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar|trumpet}} | years_active = 2004–present | label = | associated_acts = {{flatlist| * Balthazar * Arsenic }} | website = {{URL|http://warhausmusic.com/}} }} [[File:Warhaus w Gdańsku.jpg|thumb|Warhaus concert in Gdańsk (June 2024)|upright=1.2]]
'''Maarten Devoldere''' (born in 1987) is a Belgian singer-songwriter and music producer.
Devoldere began his career through his band Balthazar at age 22 with ''Applause'' (2010), the first album released by the band formed in 2004. In 2016, Maarten started Warhaus, a solo project.
Despite Balthazar being commonly referred to as an indie rock group, Devoldere has described their songs simply as pop music.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.flushthefashion.com/music/interview-maarten-devoldere-warhaus/|title=Interview: Maarten Devoldere – Warhaus|date=19 June 2016|work=Flush the Fashion|access-date=2018-05-11|language=en-US}}</ref> The band had recorded three albums and one single, followed by a break, intending to come back and record a fourth album to be released in early 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/interview-warhaus/36789|title=Interview: Warhaus {{!}} Songwriting Magazine|website=www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref> As of March 2021, ''Sand'' is Balthazar's latest album.<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 March 2021|title=Balthazar release new album 'Sand'|url=http://safeandsounduk.org/2021/03/balthazar-sand/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Safe and Sound|language=en-GB}}</ref>
Maarten's style in Warhaus has been described as a continuation of Leonard Cohen's style, although denser,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://magazyngitarzysta.pl/muzyka/wywiady/14076-jinte-deprez-i-maarten-devoldere-balthazar|title=Jinte Deprez i Maarten Devoldere (Balthazar)|work=magazyngitarzysta.pl|access-date=2018-05-11|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://soundblab.com/reviews/albums/19319-warhaus-warhaus|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511214833/https://soundblab.com/reviews/albums/19319-warhaus-warhaus|url-status=usurped|archive-date=11 May 2018|title=Warhaus – Warhaus – Albums – Reviews – Soundblab|last=Harris|first=Jim|website=soundblab.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref> with influences of Tom Waits' style and Serge Gainsbourg ballad songs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/warhaus-mn0003528922/biography|title=Warhaus {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref> He cites Bob Dylan as his most important inspiration<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-21 |title=A La Carte met Warhaus: 'Het bovennatuurlijke heeft mijn aandacht gekregen' |url=https://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/a-la-carte-met-warhaus-het-bovennatuurlijke-heeft-mijn-aandacht-gekregen |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=VPRO 3voor12 |language=nl}}</ref>. While recording his solo debut, he spent several months living on a tugboat, sailing the Dutch canals. The boat was named "Warhaus" from which Devoldere took his stage name<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-28 |title=Czego można nauczyć się od psa ze schroniska? (Warhaus) |url=https://popmoderna.pl/czego-mozna-nauczyc-sie-od-psa-ze-schroniska-warhaus/ |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Popmoderna.pl |language=pl-PL}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGZ5X01Gpw |title=I'M NOT HIM a documentary by Wouter Bouvijn |date=2016-09-08 |last=Warhaus |access-date=2026-05-02 |via=YouTube}}</ref>. He wrote most of the songs for his second self-titled album during a trip to the Tian Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Most of Warhaus songs on first two albums were recorded with Devoldere's girlfriend at that time, Sylvie Kreusch, a Belgian musician who made her solo debut in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/warhaus-mn0003528922/biography|title=Warhaus {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sylvie-kreusch-mn0003338337/discography|title=Sylvie Kreusch {{!}} Album Discography {{!}} AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.highclouds.org/sylvie-kreusch-seedy-tricks/|title=Sylvie Kreusch is bewitching in her ritual-like debut track "Seedy Tricks" {{!}} HighClouds|date=14 April 2018|work=HighClouds|access-date=2018-05-11|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.it/en/news/vogue-arts/2018/04/13/sylvie-kreusch-seedy-tricks/|title=Sylvie Kreusch: Seedy Tricks|date=13 April 2018|work=Vogue.it|access-date=2018-07-26|language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.ru/peopleparties/news/kto_takaya_silvi_kroysh/|title=Кто такая Сильви Кройш|access-date=2018-07-26|language=ru}}</ref> Warhaus third album, ''Ha Ha Heartbreak'', was created after his breakup with Kreusch and was written and partly produced in Palermo, it revolves around the themes of difficult love and various aspects of a broken heart<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-28 |title=Czego można nauczyć się od psa ze schroniska? (Warhaus) |url=https://popmoderna.pl/czego-mozna-nauczyc-sie-od-psa-ze-schroniska-warhaus/ |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Popmoderna.pl |language=pl-PL}}</ref>. His fourth album, ''Karaoke Moon'', is the result of Devoldere's self-conscious experiments with introspection, psychedelics and hypnosis and is devoted to themes of masculinity and maturity<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-28 |title=Czego można nauczyć się od psa ze schroniska? (Warhaus) |url=https://popmoderna.pl/czego-mozna-nauczyc-sie-od-psa-ze-schroniska-warhaus/ |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Popmoderna.pl |language=pl-PL}}</ref>.
Devoldere lives in his hometown Ghent with his partner and adopted dog Edie<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-28 |title=Czego można nauczyć się od psa ze schroniska? (Warhaus) |url=https://popmoderna.pl/czego-mozna-nauczyc-sie-od-psa-ze-schroniska-warhaus/ |access-date=2026-05-02 |website=Popmoderna.pl |language=pl-PL}}</ref>.
== Discography == '''Balthazar''' * ''Applause'' (2010) * ''Rats'' (2012) * ''Thin Walls'' (2015) * ''Bunker'' (2015) – single * ''The Break'' (La Trêve) Soundtrack (2016) * ''Fever'' (2019) * ''Sand'' (2021)
'''Warhaus''' * ''We Fucked a Flame into Being'' (2016) * ''Warhaus'' (2017) * ''Ha Ha Heartbreak'' (2022) * ''Karaoke Moon'' (2024)
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