Johnny Meijer
Encyclopedia
Johnny Meijer was an accordion
ist who played classical, folk, and swing
. For a time he was known as a jazz accordionist and his 75th birthday was celebrated at the North Sea Jazz Festival
. He was also the subject of a film. He is the grandfather of pop singer Eva Simons
.
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
ist who played classical, folk, and swing
Swing (genre)
Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States...
. For a time he was known as a jazz accordionist and his 75th birthday was celebrated at the North Sea Jazz Festival
North Sea Jazz Festival
The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam...
. He was also the subject of a film. He is the grandfather of pop singer Eva Simons
Eva Simons
Eva Simons is a Dutch recording artist. She first came to public attention in 2004 after winning the Dutch version of the reality TV contest Popstars as part of the short lived girlband Raffish...
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