Kempen folk singer Juul Kabas unexpectedly passed away, best known for “It’s fools who work”

Juul Kabas has run a café-tavern in Retie together with his wife since 1980. “The only bad thing is that that one hit of mine, “It’s fools that work” still haunts me now”, he sighed a year after the opening of his business, in the weekly magazine Joepie. “Not a day goes by that a few people say to me, ‘Juul, they’re fools who work. Well, you’re one yourself.’ You can laugh about it in the beginning, but if you have to listen to it for a year…”

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