Anneke Grönloh

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Anneke Grönloh, 1969
Anneke Gronloh, 2007

Johanna Louise "Anneke" Grönloh (born June 7, 1942 in Tondano , Netherlands Indies ; † September 14, 2018 in France ) was a Dutch singer who took part in the 1964 Eurovision Grand Prix .

Life

Grönloh was born as the daughter of a Dutch military man in what was then the Dutch East Indies. She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese camp in occupied Indonesia . After the end of World War II and the release of Grönloh's father from Japanese captivity, the family moved to the Netherlands for fear of the violence of the Indonesians in the War of Independence and Anneke Grönloh grew up in Eindhoven .

At the local Lyceum she met Peter Koelewijn and made the decision to perform with him in his band Peter en zijn Rockets . In 1959, Grönloh won a talent competition and began her international career. In July 1962 they brought out Brandend zand (the version of the German hit Hot Sand, written by Johnny Hoes in Dutch ), which was number one in the Dutch charts for two weeks. In 1964 she represented the Netherlands at the 9th Eurovision Grand Prix in Copenhagen . With the title Jij bent mijn leven (“You are my life”), however, she only reached 10th place. After her first successes as a pop singer , she later made a name for herself as a jazz musician .

In 2000 Anneke Grönloh was named singer of the century in the Netherlands . Two years later, the public accusation as "sloerie" (slut) and "drankorgel" (alcoholic) by the comedian Paul de Leeuw led to the fact that she and her family had to endure mockery and harassment in public. Anneke Grönloh then withdrew to France with her husband and hired a lawyer who identified 14 serious insults to his client in the programs of de Leeuw and demanded 250,000 euros in damages from de Leeuw and his station NCRV . At that time Grönloh announced her retirement from the show stage because she could no longer imagine ever performing again. Two years later, however, it had recovered and appeared again in 2004. From 2005 to 2007 she also ran a small café near Château-Chinon in Burgundy. In 2005 a DVD of her greatest hits was released and in 2006 a DVD of her theater show "Anneke and Friends".

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NL NL
2014 Al hair onvergetelijke successen NL26 (3 weeks)
NL

More albums

  • 1993: The best van
  • 2002: Holland's glory
  • 2008: Luchtkasteel

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NL NL
1962 Burning fire -
1st place in the Dutch Single Top 100
Paradiso -
1st place in the Dutch Single Top 100
1963 Soerabaja -
1st place in the Dutch Single Top 100
Life can be beautiful -
8th place in the Dutch Single Top 100
Cimeroni -
1st place in the Dutch Single Top 100
Vladimir -
4th place in the Dutch Single Top 100

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

literature

Web links

Commons : Anneke Grönloh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telegraaf: Anneke Grönloh ingestort volledig
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: NL
personal data
SURNAME Grönloh, Anneke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grönloh, Johanna Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tondano , Dutch East Indies
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2018
Place of death France