Biografie van ANNEKE GRONLOH
Anneke Grönloh is born in Indonesia, but the first years of her life were not easy, since she spend those in the Japanese Camps during the Second World War.
After the war, her family moves to Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In the year 1955 she starts singing in the band Peter Koelewijn & Zijn Rockets a band from Peter Koelewijn but in 1959 she wins a talenthunt, receives a record contract, and in 1960 her first (Malay) single Asmara becomes a big hit in Singapore.
Anneke Grönloh is born in Indonesia, but the first years of her life were not easy, since she spend those in the Japanese Camps during the Second World War.
After the war, her family moves to Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In the year 1955 she starts singing in the band Peter Koelewijn & Zijn Rockets a band from Peter Koelewijn but in 1959 she wins a talenthunt, receives a record contract, and in 1960 her first (Malay) single Asmara becomes a big hit in Singapore.
Slowly her popularity grows in the Netherlands till in 1962 she storms into the hitparade with Brandend zand where it remains for weeks only to be replaced by her next record Paradiso.
Anneke is the first Dutch teen idol.
Internationally she does well in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia and German songs are released in Germany.
Jij bent mijn leven:the Dutch entry for the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest. Not a winner, but she receives the International Press Award and Audience Award.
When new kind of music enters the world of teenagers, Anneke no longer has hits in the hitparade, but through the years she makes a comeback and she is still very popular, even in Indonesia where her songs like Paradiso, Cimeroni and Surabaya are real classics, played on the radio almost weekly.
She celebrated her 45th aniversary as an artist in 2005 with the release of a very special DVD, with unique material on the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964, her wedding and career.
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