Yvonne Keeley

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
If I Had Words (Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley)
  NL 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
07/01/1978 (15 weeks)
  BE F 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/28/1978 (13 weeks)
  UK 3 
silver
silver
01/14/1978 (10 weeks)
  DE 25th 03/27/1978 (10 weeks)
Best Friend I Know (Patricia Paay & Yvonne Keeley)
  NL 31 01/20/1979 (9 weeks)

Yvonne Keeley (born September 6, 1952 ; actually Yvonne Paay ) is a Dutch singer and radio presenter.

Life

Keeley was born the younger sister of singer Patricia Paay . Initially, she wanted to be a laboratory assistant. In the early 1970s she lived in Great Britain, where she was in a relationship with the British singer Steve Harley , the founder and singer of the glam rock band Cockney Rebel . There were two children from this marriage. When they wanted to make their own record in 1974, the record company hesitated at first to avoid confusion with its popular sister. Harley then came up with the pseudonym Keeley .

In January 1978 Keeley landed with the single If I Had Words , which she had recorded with British singer Scott Fitzgerald , a number one hit in the Netherlands and in the Flemish part of Belgium . The recording was a reggae adaptation of the Maestoso from Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony ") by Camille Saint-Saëns . In her home country, the single was in the top 40 for 17 weeks . The following year, the single Best Friend I Know , a duet with her sister Patricia, also hit the charts.

In 1983 she formed the trio The Star Sisters together with her sister Patricia and a third changing singer .

In May 1987, Keeley was photographed naked for the Dutch edition of Playboy . From 1988 she worked as a presenter for the commercial radio station Cable One . In 1991 she worked as a news anchor for the Rotterdam broadcaster Stads TV . The following year she moved to the United States to live with her sister and brother-in-law Adam Curry .

From 1997 to 2001 she presented the program Keeley in de middag on Radio Rijnmond in collaboration with Ron Sint Nicolaas . In addition, she regularly represented Sanne Boswinkel in her afternoon program on the same radio station.

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: Charts DE Charts UK Charts BE Charts NL
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: NL UK

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personal data
SURNAME Keeley, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paay, Yvonne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch singer and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1952