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Returning for family vacation;
Famous Dutch Singer and TV Personality Frans Bauer at Divi Phoenix
PALM BEACH - Frans Bauer,
his wife and four kids are
again in Aruba, this time for recorded his first single: Ben
three weeks.
A native of Roosendaal, in
the Netherlands, Bauer is a
popular singer with a spe-
cialty, namely levenslied,
what the Dutch refer to
as songs about life, with
straight-to-the-heart lyrics
and melody.
Having grown up in a trail-
er park, Bauer aspired to
break away by means of
music, from an early age.
Inspired by Julio Iglesias,
Elvis Presley and Koos Al-
berts, a fellow Dutch star,
Monday 27 July 2015
1994 he landed his first na-
tional hit with the romantic
starry-eyed Als Sterren Aan
De Hemel Staan, and in
1997 he took Germany by
storm with his album Weil
Ich Dich Liebe, because I
love you.
Frans Bauer’s fame kept
growing to the point of
getting his own reality
show, called De Bauers, in
which his daily life, includ-
ing his family life with wife
Mariska van Rossenberg, is
followed.
Bauer also designs a cloth-
ing line for the Vroom &
Dreesmann retail chain,
based in The Netherlands.
Bauer who is seen here in
the picture with Divi Resort’s
member of management,
Gerrit Griffith won several
awards and honors, includ-
ing a knighthood, Ridder in
de Orde van Oranje-Nas-
sau, thanks to his charita-
ble work and the Gouden
Televizier-Ring, for the real-
ity show he has been run-
ning on Dutch television, in
previous years.q
Bauer managed to launch
his career in 1987 when he
Je Jong, translated into
English as a question, Are
You Young?
Dutch producers Rudi Sch-
reijenberg and Emile Hart-
kamp gave him a hand
with the technical aspects
of the production, and the
rest is history!
Bauer rose to local fame,
then to national fame, as
he participated in All You
Need Is love, a trendy TV
show, in early 1992, where
he was to choose two fe-
male fans for a date. In