Heddy Lester

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1909-08-27

Active to

1959-03-15

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Listeners

843

Total plays

4,642

Heddy Lester (born Heddy Affolter, 18 June 1950, Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer and actress, best known outside the Netherlands for her participation in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest. Lester's professional career started with Gert Balke as the duo April Shower, who had a minor hit with "Railroad Song" in 1971. Her father ran a restaurant in Amsterdam, where she met singer Ramses Shaffy, with whom she started touring. Lester launched her solo career in 1974. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/H

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Photoperoxidation in isolated chloroplasts

   · 1968 · cited 9,844x

2. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,795x

3. Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1999-2004

   · 2006 · cited 6,544x

4. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

   · 2016 · cited 4,417x

5. The measurement of pessimism: The Hopelessness Scale.

   · 1974 · cited 4,103x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Place of birth

Amsterdam

Place of death

Amsterdam

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

Dutch

Participant in

Eurovision Song Contest 1977

Genre

pop music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Ariola

Image

Heddy Lester.jpg

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