ANPJacques d’Ancona
NOS Nieuws•vrijdag, 22:04
Journalist in Soundmixshow-jury chairman Jacques d’Ancona has handed away on the age of 86 in his hometown of Paterswolde. His demise was first reported by the Dagblad van het Noorden (DvhN), the newspaper for which D’Ancona wrote for a few years.
D’Ancona turned nationally recognized within the Nineteen Eighties for his work as jury chairman of the Soundmixshowa singing competitors on TV, offered by Henny Huisman. He was recognized for his frank, sincere suggestions.
For instance, he as soon as obtained a lukewarm imitation of Mick Jagger and David Bowie. “Wonderful entrance, very robust dedication – because the tune progressed I felt the stress pale a bit and I turned much less captivated.” It was then as much as Huisman to appease the protesting viewers: “I all the time have {that a} bit along with your entrance.”
‘Nice caricature’
Good pal and colleague Henny Huisman speaks extremely of D’Ancona. The 2 have for the reason that Soundmixshow all the time saved in contact. The 73-year-old Huisman calls the collaboration within the singing competitors a beautiful time.
“Jacques was additionally such a fantastic caricature. You do not have individuals like that anymore,” he advised NOS. “He may say issues that had been actually not completed had been for that point. That folks didn’t sing in tune, for instance. In time, jury members had been all the time constructive. Jacques was crucial, however he additionally actually knew one thing about it.” Huisman believes that D’Ancona was partly accountable for this system changing into so successful.
He calls him a pal, a sweetheart and a novel particular person. “Jacques was additionally all the time so attentive. All the time despatched a card when one thing occurred and all the time requested about everybody. I’m particularly grateful that I met him.”
“Once I heard the information of his passing, the bottom fell from underneath me. I believed he could be 109.”
Glory days
In an interview final yr with tabloid Weekend D’Ancona stated he was nonetheless working loads. “Being busy is sweet, you need to maintain your self busy with issues. I am not one for geraniums in any respect, I am unable to think about sitting behind them.”
“I can nonetheless write superb tales. Even twenty years after my retirement, I nonetheless work on the Dagblad van het Noorden. The unusual factor is that nobody talks about age there. I’ve the sensation that I simply maintain going, and by that I imply ‘simply’.”
He additionally mentioned the age distinction between him and his accomplice Hans, who’s thirty years youthful. “He all the time says very optimistically, which is after all nonsense: ‘You will stay to be 100.’ Then I say: ‘I am unable to try this to society, somebody with such a crucial thoughts, clear mind and the sharpness that I’ve in me.”
Though D’Ancona was on tv for a very long time, he advised the New Revu that he did not make a lot cash from it. “Very completely different quantities of cash are actually being paid by judges of tv expertise exhibits.”
ANPJacques d’Ancona (m) within the jury of the Soundmixshow
D’Ancona wrote critiques of performances for the Dagblad van het Noorden for 67 years. He was additionally energetic as a soccer referee for the KNVB for 22 years prior to now. As well as, he has been concerned with the Make-A-Want Basis since 1998.
The newspaper writes: “No person has written for the newspaper for so long as Jacques. On the age of 19 he entered the Gedempte Zuiderdiep as a member of the sports activities editorial employees of the Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. Till not too long ago, 67 years later, he may very well be discovered within the editorial workplace nearly on daily basis.”
Well being points
D’Ancona had been fighting well being issues for a while, DvhN studies, however saved them to himself. “Jacques had been affected by an incurable coronary heart situation for a number of years, which he wished to maintain hidden from the surface world.”
“He, the reviewer, was simply as strict a director when it got here to his personal life. An sickness saved you quiet, as a result of being unwell, like a trip, was on the expense of labor, and that work was sacred.”
