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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 2015
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Classicaloperasublimedutchcontralto
Aafje Heynis was born May 2nd 1924 in Holland. She was born to a family that loved to sing and as young as aged four she sang in the child choir and together with her father at the harmonium. On the advice of Jan Mienes, the conductor of the choral society in her native town of Krommenie she auditioned for teacher Jo Immink in Amsterdam with an arrangement of the "Pilgrims' Chorus" from Wagner's "Tannhauser". After that from 1946 to 1949, her singing teacher was Aaltje Noorderwier-Reddingius and
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Krommenie
- Place of death
- Huizen
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Aafje Heynis.jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- date of birth
- 1924-05-02
- date of death
- 2015-12-16
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- Aafje Heynis
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