Folk singer Nico Haak celebrated his greatest successes during the seventies; his name forever tied to the megahit ‘Foxie Foxtrot’ in 1975. To this day many Dutch people have no trouble singing along to the chorus about the girl with the elastic legs.
Dirk Jansz. Scholl was an organist, composer and carillonneur in Delft. He was of great influence on Delft musical life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and lived at Brabantse Turfmarkt 93, the building where the Etos is now located.
Gregor Bak is known as a television presenter, pianist, conductor and musicologist. Every year he puts heart and soul into the Christmas Concert, a fixed tradition in Delft that takes place in the Maria van Jessekerk on Burgwal.
Petra van Veenswijk is organist, harpsichordist and church musician. As the organist and conductor of the Maria van Jessekerk at Burgwal since 1987, she is the one playing the monumental Maarschalkerweerd organ dating back to 1893.
Singer and pianist Roel van Velven is known by his stage name VanVelzen. Around 2000 he first performs on stage in Café Vlaanderen (now Moeke) on Beestenmarkt 16. Six years later, he has his breakthrough with the release of megahit ‘Baby get Higher’. After this, his career really takes off and as of today, VanVelzen has performed hundreds of times.
At age seven, Robert Jan Stips starts his piano lessons and a mere two years later he takes to the stage for the first time. In 1963 he plays in the school band The Blubs, together with drummer Marco Vrolijk with whom Robert will later perform in the band Supersister.