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Conductor, composer and arranger Harry van Hoof died on Saturday. His ex-wife, singer Trea Dobbs, introduced this on Fb on Sunday. The demise is confirmed by director Toon van Hoof of the manufacturing firm Van Hoof Produkties, which Harry van Hoof based. Van Hoof, who lived in Eindhoven, was 81 years previous.
Van Hoof was everlasting visitor conductor with the Metropole Orchestra for twenty years. He was greatest generally known as a conductor for the Dutch entries for the Eurovision Music Contest. He additionally wrote the 1971 hit How Do You Do by the duo Mouth & MacNeal with Hans van Hemert. He was additionally a part of Peter Koelewijn’s group Peter and his Rockets. He additionally labored carefully with artists comparable to Armand, Ramses Shaffy, Rob de Nijs, Willeke Alberti, Sandra & Andres and BZN.
In response to Toon van Hoof, who took over the manufacturing firm in 2008, Harry van Hoof’s demise “got here like a bolt from the blue. He was not ailing and was nonetheless totally alive”. Toon van Hoof nonetheless had common contact with Harry van Hoof, who was not associated regardless of the identical surname.