Courtesy of: Aruba Daily
Palm Beach – Frans Bauer, a native of Roosendaal, in the Netherlands, is a popular Dutch singer with a specialty, namely levenslied, what the Dutch refer to as songs about life, with straight-to-the-heart lyrics and melody.
Having grown up in a trailer park, Bauer aspired to break away by becoming a singer, from an early age. Inspired by Julio Iglesias, Elvis Presley and Koos Alberts, a fellow Dutch star, Bauer managed to launch his career in 1987 when he recorded his first single: Ben Je Jong, translated into English as a question, Are You Young?
Dutch producers Rudi Schreijenberg and Emile Hartkamp gave him a hand with the technical aspects of the production, and the rest is history!
Bauer rose to local fame, then to national fame, as he participated in All You Need Is love, a trendy TV show in early 1992, where he was to choose two female fans for a date. In 1994 he landed his first national hit with the romantic starry-eyed Als Sterren Aan De Hemel Staan, and in 1997 he took Germany by storm with his album Weil Ich Dich Liebe, because I love you.
Frans Bauer’s fame kept growing to the point of getting his own reality show, called De Bauers, in which his daily life including his family life with wife Mariska van Rossenberg is followed.
Bauer also designs a clothing line for the Vroom & Dreesmann retail chain, based in The Netherlands.
Bauer who is seen here in the picture with Divi Resort’s top management, Alex Nieuwmeyer and Gerrit Griffith won several awards and honors, including a knighthood, Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau, thanks to his charitable work and the Gouden Televizier-Ring, for the reality show he has been running on Dutch television, in previous years.
