Ruby Carmichael
Ruby Carmichael - Henny Vrienten
Person from Netherlands
Genres: english, pop
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Henny Vrienten
About Ruby Carmichael
Henny Vrienten (born Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, 27 July 1948) was a true Dutch superstar (and a in the first half of the 1980s as one of the in Doe Maar. The band's teenage fans seemed unaware that their idols were well into their thirties... An ex-member of the Tilburg-based beat band Les Cruches in the 1960s, Vrienten's first outings as a singer-songwriter in his own right came in 1974, under the pseudonym Ruby Carmichael. The two Boudewijn de Groot-produced singles did nothing in the charts. Vrienten went on to release an album under the pseudonym of Paul Santos (1977) and also joined Boudewijn de Groot's backing band, where one Ernst Jansz became his bandmate. Vrienten and Jansz formed a reggae band in 1977 (The Rumbones) with their friend, Piet Dekker. Dekker and Jansz also formed another band: a Dutch-singing ska/pop hippie-esque outfit called Doe Maar, which Vrienten joined in 1980, replacing Dekker. The rest is history: by 1982 'Doe Maar-mania' washed over The Netherlands.
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