Composer Dick Bakker scores mega hit in America: ‘I knew nothing about it!’ | Stars

Dick Bakker is working on a second youth. The former conductor of the Metropole Orchestra and famous composer is ‘hot’ in the States.

Ⓒ Mieke Honey

He composed and arranged for no fewer than 22 entries for the Eurovision Song Contest and was the conductor of the Metropole Orkest for more than 14 years. But anyone who thinks that Dick Bakker, now 74, is gradually enjoying his retirement, is wrong. An old album has brought him back into the charts in America. “I didn’t know anything about it, but I noticed it in my bank account!”