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3 unusual facts about Rob de Nijs


Malle Babbe

In the Netherlands, Malle Babbe is also the subject of a well-known eponymous song, written by Boudewijn de Groot and Lennaert Nijgh and performed in 1973 by Rob de Nijs.

Rob de Nijs

Singer Boudewijn de Groot and songwriter Lennaert Nijgh helped De Nijs relaunching his singing-career; in 1973 he was back in the charts with Jan Klaassen de Trompetter.

In 1980 De Nijs met Belinda Meuldijk who gave up her own singing-career (after releasing a one-off single the previous year) to become his chief-songwriter and his second wife (they married in 1984).



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