Frans Krassenburg

Frans Krassenburg (The Hague, 28 February 1944) was the first singer of the Golden Earrings. The Golden Earrings, founded in 1961, started as an instrumental band. In 1964 Krassenburg was recruited as lead singer of the band. On hits such as "That Day", "Daddy buy me a Girl" and "In my house" his voice determined the sound of the successful singles band. In 1967 George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen wanted to go in a different direction and Krassenburg did not fit in with that. Barry Hay succeeded him. Krassenburg recorded a few solo lessons, the first of which had the appropriate title "Golden Earrings". In 1968, Krassenburg was a singer of After Tea from Delft for a while. He then started his own artist agency. On Saturday 20 December 2008, Krassenburg said goodbye to the music world with a concert at Musicon in The Hague and went to enjoy his retirement on the island of Ameland. That turned out to be relative, because Krassenburg continued to perform normally after that goodbye. In 2014, for example, he was part of the Derksen on the road show, in which Johan Derksen brought pioneers of Dutch pop music on stage, along with the Clarks as accompaniment group. Two years later Krassenburg participated in the Pioniers van de Nederpop follow-up program. In both cases he sang the hits from his period with the Earrings.