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Bojoura
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thumb| Bojoura, born Raina Gerardina Bojoura van Melzen (15 April 1947), is a folk and pop vocalist, whose greatest success came in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1947 births, Dutch pop singers and Dutch women pop singers.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1947-04-15
Discography
- Dream Man / Looking for That Land1967
- Everybody's Day / Faceless Sorrow1967
- Night Flight Night Sight1968
- Circus Will Be in Town in Time / Treat Me1968
- Frank Mills / Looking For The Land (Part 2)1969
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium / In the Corner of My Life1969
- The Beauty of Bojoura1970
- Black Sheep Child / Comes a Time1971
- Everything's Alright / I Don't Know How to Love Him1971
- Once Upon a Time / For All We Know1971
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- Listeners
- 2,305
- Total plays
- 13,949
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Bojoura, born Raina Cleuver van Melzen (The Hague, The Netherlands, 15 April 1947), is a folk and pop songstress, who enjoyed chart success in The Netherlands in the late 1960s and 1970s. Born in The Hague, Bojoura was discovered by George Kooymans of Golden Earrings, who went on to write and produce many of her songs, including her début hit single, Everybody's Day, #18 in the Dutch Top 40 in 1967. Her biggest hit in The Netherlands was a 1969 cover version of Frank Mills, a song from the Broa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- The Hague
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.bojoura.info
- Image
- Bojoura-1471461965.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1947-04-15
- birth name
- Rajna Gerardina Cleuver van Melzen
- pseudonym
- Bojoura
- name in native language
- Raina Cleuver van Melzen
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
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- Life and career
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thumb| Bojoura, born Raina Gerardina Bojoura van Melzen (15 April 1947), is a folk and pop vocalist, whose greatest success came in the late 1960s and 1970s.
==Life and career== Bojoura was born in The Hague, The Netherlands to Bulgarian opera singer Dany Zonewa. Bojoura was discovered by George Kooymans of the rock band Golden Earring, who went on to write and produce many of her songs. Bojoura scored her first hit in June 1967 with the Kooymans ballad "Everybody's Day" which reached top 20 due to heavy airplay on Radio Veronica. She released her album Night Flight Night Sight in 1968, which was not commercially successful.
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