Willy van Hemert (29 March 1912 – 26 June 1993) was a Dutch actor and theatre and television director, but is best known as a songwriter who penned two winning Dutch songs for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Willy van Hemert with daughter Ellen and son Ruud in 1960Willeke Alberti and Willy van Hemert (right) in 1971
Biography
Van Hemert was born in Utrecht in 1912 as Willem Catharinus van Hemert. He attended the Bonifacius School in Utrecht. He studied drama and (briefly) law.
His most famous song may be "Zuiderzeeballade", or "Ballad of the Zuiderzee", a song from 1962 that ranked ninth in the top 100 of most popular Dutch songs from the twentieth century.[3]
Van Hemert was the father of four children by his first wife Miep Kronenburg: Hans van Hemert (who would later write various Dutch entries for the song contest), Ruud, Ellen and Eric van Hemert. Actor Coen Flink is his son-in-law.[citation needed]
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