Taco Ockerse

Person · Open Library

Works

696

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Netherlands

Active from

1955-07-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

298,247

Total plays

1,935,458

Taco Ockerse (born July 21, 1955 in Jakarta, Indonesia), known mononymously as Taco, is an Indonesian-born Dutch singer. He gained international stardom when in 1982 he recorded a distinctive cover record of the old Irving Berlin favorite, Puttin' on the Ritz in Germany, which made him famous early the next year (United States Billboard chart number 4). It has been reported that he did not speak any English at all and merely read the lyrics from transliterations, but this is false: Taco speaks E

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease

   · 2016 · cited 1,240x

2. Progressive Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Responding to Therapy

   · 2011 · cited 761x

3. Comparative genomics of the neglected human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

   · 2008 · cited 711x

4. A Comprehensive Survey of the <i>Plasmodium</i> Life Cycle by Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Proteomic Analyses

   · 2005 · cited 695x

5. Genetic Drivers of Epigenetic and Transcriptional Variation in Human Immune Cells

   · 2016 · cited 671x

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