[1] From 1999 until 2005 he was a Member of Parliament for the Aruban People's Party in the Estates of Aruba.
[2] Abath was born in Aruba, one of the Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles and a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
After he finished havo on Aruba, he went to Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands to study logopaedics.
He practised as a logopaedic at Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital in Aruba.
[2] In 1988 he collaborated with Venezuelan pop singer Devorah Sasha in the single "Simplemente Así" sung in both English and Spanish.