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Jaap truck Zweden began his profession seeing that an orchestral violinist, however in quite spectacular style: he was appointed concertmaster from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 1979 when he was only 19 years of age! He would contain the post until 1995, when he transformed mainly to performing. By the first …

Delivered on November 5, 1960 in Amsterdam, Dutch vocalist René Froger broke through in 1988 using the strike single “Wintertime in the us” in the record Who Dares Wins. He strike it big once again the following season with “Alles kan een mens gelukkig maken (Een eigen huis),” cementing his …