You would think that someone with Rob de Nijs’s oeuvre is baked for life, but the singer did not go as a millionaire. “In fact, the mortgage has not even been paid off yet.”
It is one of the most famous singers that our country has ever known: Rob de Nijs. He went away at the age of 82 and that did not come unexpectedly because he had been struggling with his health for years. It is hoped that there is not as much hassle to create his musical legacy as about that of André Hazes, but there is not much to distribute financially.
Not a millionaire
According to Story boss Guido den Attrekker, Rob was not a wealthy man. “Everyone always thinks, especially with these kinds of big stars, that the money really flows in and they are a multi -millionaire … Well, Rob has spent a lot of it. He loved beautiful motorbikes and beautiful clothing,” he says in Shownieuws.
“But he said in an interview, for example, that people did not realize that he still had to work for his mortgage. Of course he had a beautiful house in Bennekom, but that has to be paid and still.”
Mortgage
Guido refers to an interview that Rob gave in 2019, just before his 77th birthday. “Two performances just after each other, that’s no longer to save me,” he then said to The latest news. “Now I am at ease, so that I can just pay my mortgage. Yes, it just keeps on going. In our room alone we are all ordinary people.”
Thanks to those performances, the mortgage could be paid nicely, Rob then explained. “We are sold out everywhere. The idea probably plays: we have to see him now that it is still possible.”
Vain
Rob enjoyed the performance for a long time. He was also a real vanity, says Guido. “Maarten Spanjer used to be a kind of neighbor by Rob. He is the son of a driving school owner in Amsterdam-Oost, on Linnaeusstraat. So his father had a driving school and Maarten sometimes told that Rob was quite vain in the early days.”
“He also wanted to be recognized in the early days. I still bring it neatly, because nothing but good about the dead, but he drove very often on Linnaeusstraat and Middenweg in a car of his father with the lights on, so that he would be better recognized in the evening. I think that is very sweet actually.” Da. “