Dick Rienstra (1941 – 2021) was a Dutch singer and actor.
Rienstra began his musical career in a local group, The Double S Combo, where he sang and played guitar, clarinet, and saxophone. In 1960 he debuted on the radio in a
KRO
KRO, or (Catholic Radio Broadcasting), was a Dutch public broadcasting organization founded on 23 April 1925.
Broadly Catholic in its spiritual outlook, KRO broadcast the bulk of its television output on the NPO 1 channel. KRO was also responsi ...
program, and in 1962 on the TV, in a
VARA
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talent show. He moved to Amsterdam in 1963 and got a job in a musical comedy production as a singer and an actor in skits, and in 1966 signed with the
''Snip en Snap Revue''. With the Amsterdams Volkstoneel he performed in the musical ''
De Jantjes'', and later formed a musical duo called De Jantjes as well. He was a contender in the preliminaries for the
Eurovision Song Contest
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in 1977, and after that performed in the theater and in minor roles on television. He played a role in the comedy film ''
Flodders in America
''Flodders in America'' ( nl, Flodder in Amerika!), released in Quebec as ''Les Lavigueur Redéménagent'', is a 1992 Dutch comedy film directed by Dick Maas. The film is the sequel of the successful film ''Flodder'' from 1986. It was filmed on l ...
'' (1992) and played the lead in the
EO drama series ''De laatste carrier'' (1994).
Filmography
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1941 births
2021 deaths
Dutch male singers
People from Assen
Nationaal Songfestival contestants