At the same time he started listening to great jazz guitar players and began playing in small groups in and around the Netherlands.

In 1946 he performed at the London Palladium and in 1947 and 1948 he toured all over the world, including concerts at the Olympia theatre in Paris and at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

It is unclear whether he made use of a rudimentary wah-wah pedal, a "singin' guitar" device like Alvino Rey, or simply a vibrato-bar to achieve that effect, which astonished Italian audiences with its novelty.

[1] In the 1960s he decided to dedicate himself to astrology and started to contribute horoscopes to Italian newspapers and magazines while continuing to make recordings.

He came again to prominence on Italian television when he took part in the football show Quelli che... il Calcio presented by Fabio Fazio.