The music event has been going on for over ten years Holland sings Hazes fixed point for Hazes fans. Sing-alongs sound like The kite in Blood Sweat and tears through the Ziggo Dome. But this year not all shows are sold out. What goes on behind the scenes?
If you take a look at the website of the Ziggo Dome, you will see it immediately: tickets are still available for half of the shows. If you don’t have any plans for tonight yet, you can even get tickets. Also last year the concerts were not completely sold out. At that time the series consisted of five evenings, this year one has already disappeared. And that while the event was previously so popular.
Every year, artists such as Gerard Joling, Samantha Steenwijk and Jeroen van der Boom sing hits by the late folk singer André Hazes. By now, almost all well-known Dutch artists have performed on stage Holland sings Hazes stood
Until a few years ago that was not boring. But the Hazes family has been in the news so often negatively in recent years that programs such as RTL Boulevard there is regular talk of Hazes fatigue.
Roxeanne Hazes is no longer participating
“There were already some rumors going around, but before I finally made this decision, I gave myself some time to think. I have decided that I will not participate in next year Holland sings Hazes“, Roxeanne Hazes wrote on Instagram last September. In the same message, she said she wanted to focus on “other beautiful things”.
Still, the timing is striking: a month before the daughter of the folk singer announced her decision, she told the program Dear Singers candid about her childhood. She felt abandoned by her mother after her father’s death. “It’s an accumulation of a lot of traumas. To start with always having to leave when your father has to give concerts. Then I went to another family.”
‘Rich imagination of a young man at the time’
A day after the broadcast, her mother responded: “Let’s just say that it is mainly the rich imagination of a young girl at the time.” According to Rachel Hazes, people from her immediate environment can confirm that. “It is a pity that the one-sidedness of such statements is immediately accepted as truth.”
André Hazes jr. intervened in the conflict by taking his mother’s side. “You took care of us and fought like a lioness when we were little. As one of your two children, I don’t agree at all with the claims made about you.”
The fact that André chooses his mother’s side was also apparent when the singer announced that he would return to the stage Holland sings Hazes. At that time, the artist had not performed for two years, because he was struggling with alcohol addiction and a burnout.
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What his return looks like is also a topic of discussion. Juice channels who have spoken to sources within the production say that André only sings a few songs.
NU.nl has asked Royal Promotions, the company that does the PR for the music event, how many songs the singer will sing during the concerts. “This question probably comes in response to the various messages on the juice channels. We are of course not going to announce the line-up yet, but André, like the other artists and previous years, sings a number of songs solo and in duet or group form,” says the reaction.
Incidentally, there are concerns about that performance: in a documentary that appeared on Videoland last year, André said that he had voice problems. He also suffers from nerves when he has to go on stage.
Meanwhile, tickets for the event are being resold on various websites. Interested parties can make their move on Marktplaats, for example: there are more than 350 advertisements offering tickets.