Frederik van pallandt biography of barack obama

Dutch singer (1934 – 1994)

Frederik Jan Gustav Floris, Baron van Pallandt (4 May 1934 – 15 May 1994) was a Dutch singer best known as the male, guitar-playing half of the singing duo Nina & Frederik, which was together from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.

Van Pallandt was born in Copenhagen, the son of Floris Carsilius Anne, Baron van Pallandt,^[1] a former Ambassador for the Netherlands to Denmark and South Africa, ^[2] and Dane Else Dagmar Hanina, Komtesse Blücher af Altona.^{[citation needed]} His uncle, Egbert Carl Antony, Baron van Pallandt (changed to Palland for political reasons) emigrated to South Africa.

He and his first wife, Nina van Pallandt, created a sensation first in Denmark and then elsewhere in Europe with music rooted in folk, ethnic, and calypso styles and, at first, their plain stage attire.

The couple had three children: Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (10 June 1961 – 13 October 2006),