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Willeke Alberti

Dutch singer and actress (born 1945)

Summary

Dutch singer and actress (born 1945)

Field	Value
name	Willeke Alberti
image	Willeke Alberti (cropped).jpg
caption	Alberti in 2006
birth_name	Willy Albertina Verbrugge
birth_date
birth_place	Amsterdam, Netherlands
occupation	Singer, actress
years_active	1956–present
spouse	{{Plainlist
*{{Marriage	Joop Oonk	27 December 1965	1974	reason	div.}}
*{{Marriage	John de Mol Jr.	24 July 1976	1980	reason	div.}}
*{{Marriage	Søren Lerby	1981	1996	reason	div.}}
children	3, including Johnny de Mol
relatives	Willy Alberti (father)
module	{{Infobox musical artist
embed	yes
years_active	1958–present
genre	Schlager, levenslied
label	Philips
Universal Music Group
EMI
website

Universal Music Group EMI Willy Albertina Verbrugge (born 3 February 1945), known professionally as Willeke Alberti, is a Dutch singer and actress, the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti (1926–1985) and Hendrika Geertruida Kuiper (1921–2011).

Biography

Willeke Alberti and Joop Oonk getting married on 27 December 1965

Alberti started her career at the early age of eleven in the musical Duel om Barbara and she recorded her first single in 1958 together with her father. During the 1960s, she was a well-known singer in the Netherlands and had at least one No. 1 hit with "De winter was lang" ("The winter was long"), however there was no official Dutch chart at the time. Willeke and her father had a television show between 1965 and 1969. Her singing career from 1970 onwards is less active, however Alberti still releases singles and albums at an irregular interval and plays minor roles in television programs and movies.

Alberti was married to [[John de Mol Jr.]] from 1976 to 1980

Alberti was married to [[Søren Lerby]] from 1981 to 1996

From 1965 to 1974 she was married to musician Joop Oonk and they had a daughter. She married John de Mol in 1976, and they had a son, Johnny de Mol. The couple divorced in 1980, and Alberti married a third time, with football player Søren Lerby. Another son was born from that marriage. Søren Lerby and Alberti separated in 1996.

In 1994, she represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waar is de zon?" ("Where is the sun?"), which claimed a meagre four points from the international juries, all coming from Austria, placing 23rd.

Through the years Alberti has become embraced in the Netherlands as a gay icon, due to a combination of her song repertoire, her durability and her performances in support of many gay causes. She is the mother-in-law of John van 't Schip.

Filmography

De Kleine Waarheid (TV Series) 1970
Oom Ferdinand en de Toverdrank (1974)
Slippers (TV Movie) (1975)
Rooie Sien (1975)
Kiss Me Kate (TV Movie) (1975)
Pygmalion (TV Movie) (1976)
Lachcarrousel (TV Movie) (1976)
Dag 80 hallo 81 (1980)
Filmpje! (1995)
Nachtrit (2006)
Alles is familie (2012)
Sinterklaas en de Pepernoten Chaos (2013)

References

[http://gayinfo.tripod.com/WOF.html Foot and Hand Prints in Rotterdam]. Retrieved 4 July 2008
[https://voetbalflitsen.nl/nieuws/68qa93/even-voorstellen-aan-estelle-dochter-van-john-van-t-schip Vrouw John van 't Schip. Van 't Schip moest kortgeleden nog afscheid nemen van zijn vrouw, Daniëlle Oonk. (dochter van Willeke Alberti).]

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