Andre Hazes will be remembered as the man who popular genre gave a new impetus history. As a child of eight years, he is discovered by Johnny Kraaykamp, which makes him act in his television show. It will last for seventeen years before he scored his first hit with Lonely This Christmas (1976). In the years that follow Andre Hazes grows into the face of the Dutch sentimental, though he calls
… it rather levenspop. His songs are the accordions of the past replaced by 'modern' drums, bass and guitars. Hazes typically uses existing foreign songs, which he himself wrote the Dutch texts. His themes he takes his own life. Like the characters in his songs has Hazes marriage problems partly caused by alcoholism. A highlight of his oeuvre This Is What I Want, a blues record he makes to include Kaz Lux and Jan Akkerman. Thursday, September 23, 2004 collapse Andre Hazes at the age of 53 from the effects of a heart attack.more