Anneke gronloh biography sample

Musical artist

Johanna Louise "Anneke" Grönloh (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈɑnəkəˈɡrʏnloː]; 7 June 1942 – 14 September 2018)^[1] was a Dutch singer.

She had a successful career starting in 1959 that lasted throughout the 1960s, 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.

Anneke gronloh biography sample

Career

During her time in secondary school, she met Peter Koelewijn with whom she began performing at parties. In 1959, her career took off after she won a talent show. On 31 August 1964 she married Wim-Jaap van der Laan, a DJ at the