Jelle (71) received an iconic music prize from Janis Joplin: ‘I can’t sing a note, but I do have an Edison’

Few people know it, but the Edison Award that blues icon Janis Joplin won for her album Pearl has been in Zandvoort for fifty years. There the bronze statue adorns the cupboard of Jelle Attema (71). He even turned down an American offer of ten thousand dollars without hesitation. “The value of this has nothing to do with money.”

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