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The Amazing Stroopwafels

The Amazing Stroopwafels is a Rotterdam band founded on March 21, 1979, consisting of Wim Kerkhof (vocals, double bass, keyboards), Rien de Bruin (guitar, harmonica and vocals) and Arie van der Graaf (electric guitar).
The Amazing Stroopwafels became known with the song Ome Kobus (1981), in which they describe the adventures of Ome Kobus who lost his left leg in Hawaii to a shark. This song was boycotted by the Hilversum radio stations because it would discriminate against the disabled.

Freddie James

Frederick Alan Milligan. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1965.
Freddie came from a musical background.
His great-grandmother had been a singer down in Missouri. His grandfather made extra money doing a one man band hustle.
And of course his mother is Geraldine Hunt.
Freddie learned about singing from the heart while listening to his family singing in church choirs on Chicago's south side. It was only natural with his exposure to music at home and church that precocious little Freddie would gravitate towards singing for love and attention.