07/06/2024
Guus Meeuwis is within the Guinness E-book of Data together with his live performance collection Groots with a smooth G. The 52-year-old artist was shocked on Friday afternoon by a spokesperson for Guinness World Data, who gave him an official certificates. Meeuwis holds the document for “most massively attended concert events by an artist in a single stadium”. However that was not the one shock: he’s additionally honored with a statue in entrance of the principle entrance of the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven.
The art work, which depicts a younger model of Guus, was unveiled on Friday afternoon within the presence of Meeuwis himself and his family members. He turned visibly emotional when the statue was unveiled. The art work is a bit boy with a soccer at his foot, made by artist Sarah van Sonsbeeck. On the boy’s again is the title Guus and the quantity 17. “Wow,” was the very first thing the singer stated. “I believe it’s stunning. And what I like about it: I do not essentially need to be this. This could possibly be anybody.”
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The artist stated that he at all times wished to play soccer within the Philips Stadium as a youth. “On the age of fourteen I already knew that that wasn’t going to occur, however I did get to sing so much within the stadium. And on this stadium you may play the perfect soccer, but additionally the perfect singing,” says Meeuwis. “I’ve no phrases for it. That is the very best kick-off to the final Groots.”
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On Friday, June 14, Meeuwis will begin his seventeenth and last collection of Groots met een smooth G, which consists of 9 concert events. On the finish of June, the Brabant artist has carried out 72 instances within the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven. After his final live performance, Meeuwis’ world document can be up to date, the Guinness World Data spokesperson confirmed.
