Loes Wijnhoven and her twin sister Renée make up the Nijmegen-based duo Clean Pete. Both trained at the Maastricht Conservatory, and together they write Dutch-language songs that sit between indie pop and kleinkunst, with Loes on guitar and Renée on cello. Four albums on Excelsior Recordings and appearances at Pinkpop, Down The Rabbit Hole and Into The Great Wide Open mark their career. Rolling Stone named their Christmas album Gloria one of the best of 2019.
Heaven Magazine spoke positively about the theater tour Secrets of Clean Pete and called the Christmas show a fixed December tradition throughout the country.
Clean Pete closed the 2025 Christmas show tour with a concert at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.
Clean Pete gave an intimate farm concert at family festival Grazende Zwaan in Nieuw-Vennep.
Clean Pete announced the new theater tour Pearl Fishers, with performances throughout the Netherlands in spring 2027.
The Christmas album Gloria was named the sixth best Christmas album of that year by the American magazine Rolling Stone.
Sisters Loes and Renée Wijnhoven blend classical arrangements with original indie-pop songs, accompanied by cello and vocals.
Sisters Loes and Renée Wijnhoven perform as Clean Pete, blending their own indie-pop songs with imaginative arrangements of classical masterpieces in an evening of wit and musical invention.