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Anneke Grönloh
Musical artist
Johanna Louise "Anneke" Grönloh (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈɑnəkəˈɡrʏnloː]; 7 June – 14 September )[1] was a Dutch singer. She had a successful career starting in that lasted throughout the s, and scored a hit with "Brandend Zand", one of the best-selling Dutch songs of all time.
Early life
Grönloh was born in Tondano, North Sulawesi, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), and spent her early years in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies in a Japanese concentration camp. Her father, an officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL), had been interned before her birth.
After the war, the family moved to the Netherlands, and Grönloh grew up in Eindhoven.
Career
During her time in secondary school, she met Peter Koelewijn with whom she began performing at parties. In , her career took off after she won a talent show.
Kapsel anneke gronloh biography She gets by Radio 5 proclaimed "the icon of the 60s". She visits her old friend in England Vera Lynn to offer the first copy of the single. She had a successful career starting in that lasted throughout the s, and scored a hit with " Brandend Zand ", one of the best-selling Dutch songs of all time. Upon arrival in Singapore, she receives a gold record for Nina Bobo.On 31 August she married Wim-Jaap van der Laan, a DJ at the Dutch radio station Radio Veronica, and in began singing in the Sleeswijk Revue.[2]
Throughout the s she scored hits, especially with "Brandend zand" (Burning sand). At the height of her fame, Grönloh represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Jij bent mijn leven" (You are my life), finishing in tenth place, and by the end of the s she had begun an international singing career.
Besides popular music, Grönloh performed songs in the kroncong genre, such as "Bengawan Solo", "Boeroeng Kakatua", and "Nina Bobo", as well as jazz songs, which according to her was her favourite musical genre.
In , Grönloh was named "Singer of the Century" in the Netherlands because of the record-breaking sales of "Brandend zand".
In the same year, she was also a participant on the television program Big Brother VIPS.
Kapsel anneke gronloh biography wikipedia Have many of her CDs now living in the UK including 4 individually autographed and signed with love and affection. In she retired from the music industry and performed her final concert. That is more than any other Dutch song. In she celebrated her 55th anniversary as an artist with a gala evening at the SS Rotterdam.In she released Anneke and Friends, a DVD of her theater tours. Later that year she was part of the theater tour "Purple ", replacing Corry Brokken who could not perform due to illness.
Grönloh had retired due to health problems, having played her last show on 26 August [citation needed] She died on 14 September in Arleuf, France, aged [3][4]