Edwin Dinan Evers (May 9, 1971 in

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) is a Dutch drummer and radio presenter of the radio station

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Biography

Evers was born on 9 May 1971 in

, the

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, his first experience with radio was by the local broadcaster, also he turned on Saturday night at the local discothèque Celebration, in 1991 he was featured on the radio station Power FM, which broadcast until 1993. In 1992 he was hired by the public broadcaster

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, radio director at that moment, his first program by Veronica was ''Evers in het Wild'' for 3 years, in 1995 Veronica left the public order to start a commercial company with

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and many presenters moved to this new commercial radio station which was called

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, he and

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were the hosts of the program ''Vrijdagavondkeet'', in 1997 was announced that Evers will change to the public broadcaster

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where he presents the program ''Evers staat op'' from 1998 to 2000 with the side kicks

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and

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, this program has a great popularity at that time.

Current career

After the two years at the KRO on Radio 3FM, the program ''Evers staat op'' moved to

in April 2000, Niels van Baarlen replaced Cobus Bosscha who stayed at the KRO. He is also a drummer of the formed Edwin Evers Band. On 23 March 2018 Evers announced live on air that he’ll leave Radio 538 and his whole radio career somewhere at the end of 2018.

References

About Biography

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Source at AD.nl
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