Jelte Steven Tuinstra (born January 24, 1991, in The Hague), known professionally as Jett Rebel, is a Dutch singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and recording artist.

The moniker Jett Rebel refers to a solo artist who performs live in different band formations in the Dutch music scene.

His parents played in socialist music groups and choirs (Verenigde Oost Nederlandse Kompanjie, also known as VONK) with which they also performed demonstrations against racism, nuclear energy, and weapons.

The socialist nature of VONK, including their frequent appearances at demonstrations and playing of protest songs such as The Internationale[2] influenced his music crucially.

In his childhood, he sang in the youth choir of Majel Lustenhouwer on recordings by Rob de Nijs and Jochem van Gelder among others.

After about a year at the conservatorium, he quit because of repetitive strain injury from playing too much guitar and because in the end it didn't meet his expectations.

In the spring of 2014 Jett Rebel launched his first sold out "Venus & Mars-tour" in a series of small and medium-sized venues in the Netherlands.

On that day Jett Rebel and his band were taken by helicopter to five liberation festivals: Groningen, Leeuwarden, Amsterdam, The Hague and Haarlem.

On July 2, 2015, Rebel was invited by Larry Graham to perform in London and share the stage with him and Mark King of Level 42.

A few days later Graham gave an exclusive show in Patronaat (Haarlem) and announced that Candy Dulfer and Jett Rebel would share the stage with him.

Rebel had fallen off the stage during this performance: I tried to enjoy myself intensely, so I closed my eyes for a moment during the guitar solo.

In October was the first sold-out solo theatre tour, An Evening with Jett Rebel, in six major venues in the Netherlands including the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Artists who performed were Marnix Dorrestein as IX, Bells Of Youth, Amber Gomaa, Echo Movis and Willem Wits.

In November, he was in the line-up of MTV Netherlands music week, for a special event to present his label Baby Tiger Records to the general public in Rotown Rotterdam.

During Eurosonic Noorderslag a special pop-up museum was set up in the Der Aa church in Groningen about Jett Rebel, this coincided with the release of Super Pop.

On this day a 7" by Jett Rebel was released, a double A-side on pink vinyl with the singles "Better Off Together" and "Daydreamin'" from the album Super Pop.

On November 10, 2017, Rebel made the title song for the film Old Love by director Nicole van Kilsdonk.

Especially for the film he made a remake of the song 'Send Me A Postcard', of which the original was written by Robbie van Leeuwen for the Dutch band Shocking Blue.

With countless twists in melody, harmony, rhythm and new parts, Jett Rebel delivers his own sound in a contemporary remake, making an important contribution at the end of Oude Liefde.

[10] In 2018, Paradiso celebrated its 50th anniversary; the kick-off of the party year took place on January 1, 2018, with a sold-out concert by Jett Rebel which lasted 4.5 hours.

Rebel played with a trio formation his track Stick Together from album 7, an appropriate message for the EU, the member states and the social democracy.

Stick Together refers to Country Joe and the Fish, an American band that was mainly known for protest songs against the Vietnam War.

The EP was played live and recorded in the Wisseloord Studios with bassist Xander Vrienten and drummer Willem van der Krabben.

One day later, Rebel flew with his trio formation to the UK for a one-time performance, his first show in London in the Notting Hill Arts Club.

Oosterhuis was very enthusiastic about the collaboration; "Jelte is curious, empathetic and authentic in his choices and he has left me in my dignity and challenged me to look at it sometimes differently than I would have done myself".

The 24-minute documentary follows the period just before Jett Rebel wins several major music awards and gets a drastically different life.

Because I wanted to have both Jett Rebel and Sjak Zwier in my documentary, it was exciting when the crew started filming them together for the first time; they didn't know what the click would be.

Other important artists for Rebel who have inspired him include Joni Mitchell, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac and Steve Miller.

On his right arm are tattoos of his musical heroes like Elvis Presley, Todd Rundgren, Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Steve Miller Band, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, The Beatles (white album), Sly & the Family Stone, Funkadelic, The Millennium and more will follow.

The audience of Eurosonic Noorderslag was able to see the life-size canvas of the rococo painter François Boucher's Resting Girl during Rebel's performance.