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Conny Renoir is Jenny Arean's mother. She herself was also an initiate in the artist world. As a young girl she traveled with Circus Hagenbeck, with which she was related through her mother Henny Verra (also a singer). Conny Renoir took dance and singing lessons. In 1939 she made her debut as a radio singer in a program with The Ramblers and Johnny & Jones. After the Second World War she continued her radio work, including radio plays and Negen heit de Klok. She also wrote and translated texts for René Frank, Jacco van Renesse and her daughter, among others. In 1964, a record studio recorded two songs: Cabaret Paris and What do men know about love? For years, Renoir performed international repertoire in D’Vijff Vlieghen, a restaurant on Amsterdam's Spuistraat, which still exists today. The advertising single for the restaurant was primarily intended to appeal to foreign guests. After an English spoken introduction, Conny Renoir sings in two languages about the attractiveness of D'Vijff Vlieghen. The Dutch text was written by Wim Ibo. The b-side of the single is also in Dutch and English. The singer only performs the chorus from Aan de Amsterdamsche canchten, the verse is played instrumentally on accordion.
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