Bernadette (singer)

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Bernadette (1983)
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Singles
Sing me a song
  NL 28 03/26/1983 (5 weeks)

Bernadette Kraakman (born March 1, 1959 in Volendam ) is a Dutch former pop singer .

Kraakman was a singer with the Fat Eddy Band in the late 1970s, which released some singles in the Netherlands. In 1981 they had a small hit with Let Your Body Move It . From 1983 she tried her hand at playing Bernadette solo and won - still quite unknown - the national preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 . At the competition in Munich she reached seventh place with the title Sing Me a Song . The single was able to place in the Dutch charts, but remained Bernadette's only success. Other singles were hardly noticed.

In 1986 she founded the short-lived and unsuccessful duo Double Trouble together with the singer Ingrid Simons.

Over the next few years, Bernadette could be heard as a voice actress in various animated films from Disney .

In 1999 she emigrated to Canada, where she and her husband ran a pancake restaurant in Kamloops , British Columbia for 15 years . The couple have been the owners of the Campbell Hills Guest Ranch, also in Kamloops, since 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: NL
  2. ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Fat-Eddy-Band/Let-Your-Body-Move-It-500000
  3. ↑ https://hitparade.ch/artist/Bernadette#charts
  4. ↑ https://www.amsterdamrestaurant.ca/amsterdamabout
personal data
SURNAME Bernadette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraakman, Bernadette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Volendam , Netherlands