A city folk boy with a slightly serrated, dark bronze croon: René Froger once started as the Amsterdam answer to Lee Towers from Rotterdam. Tried and tested in the Amsterdam pub circuit (his father Bolle Jan was a musician and café owner), Froger broke through in 1988 when he was allowed to sing Winter In America in the pop program Countdown, for the popular deejay Adam Curry and his girlfriend
… Patricia Paay, who performed on the were about to leave for America. A year later, he went even further with Everything Can Make A Man Happy (in collaboration with Het Goede Doel). During the nineties he grew into a Dutch stadium act. The second part of Sweet Hello's & Sad Goodbyes was released in the autumn of 2002, a year after Froger received his two-millionth visitor during a series of sold-out concerts in Rotterdam's Ahoy sports palace. It contains exclusively English-language repertoire, including performances of classic (pop) songs such as You've Got A Friend, In Dreams and She dedicated to Princess Maxima. In Why Are You So Beautiful colleagues Marco Borsato and Ruth Jacott emerge.more