Karel de Rooij of Mini & Maxi kept a big secret for 37 years: ‘After so many years I confessed. Sorry’

Joop van den Ende was once awarded the Silver Rose at the Montreux Festival. But the then young producer never received his first major international prize. Karel de Rooij – one half of the Hague duo Mini & Maxi – took it home. Secretly. “And I really regret that now…”

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