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Vinony's link graph records 14 inbound references to Johnny Lion, and connects out to The Hague, IMDb and Wayback Machine.
It sits within the topics 1941 births, 2019 deaths and 20th-century Dutch male singers.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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Johnny Lion (John van Leeuwarden, The Hague, The Netherlands, 4 July 1941 - 31 January 2019) was a Dutch singer and actor, who in the early 1960s was regarded as the Dutch equivalent of Cliff Richard. Johnny Lion rose to fame as the frontman of Johnny & The Jewels (later: The Jumping Jewels, a guitar group heavily influenced by The Shadows, with Lion as their 'Cliff'. Lion left the band in 1965 and had smash solo hit in Holland with Sophietje that same year. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johnny
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- The Hague
- Place of death
- Breda
- Occupation
- journalist
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Philips Records
- Image
- Johnny Lion.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1941-07-04
- Commons category
- Johnny Lion
- date of death
- 2019-01-31
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Johnny Lion
- birth name
- John van Leeuwarden
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
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