Ria Valk

AVRO producer Roel Balten contracted her to perform in La Courtine in France for Dutch soldiers.

In her early years she devoted herself to rock and roll and in 1961 scored the hit song Hou je echt nog van mij, Rocking Billy?, a translation of the Swedish song Är du kär i mej ännu, Klas-Göran by the later ABBA manager Stig Anderson.

Together with Rob de Nijs, Trea Dobbs, Marijke Merckens and Kitty Courbois, Valk acted and sang in the television show TV magazine, in which, in addition to humorous songs, she also got to sing serious material from Harrie Geelen, Dick Poons and Hans Peters.

In these episodes she sings, among others, The French song, Colinda and the duet Jij en ik with Rob de Nijs.

At the end of the sixties she had a series of minor hits with comic songs: Dan moet je me zuster zien (1967), Casatschok (1969), Vrijgezellenflat (1969), Parfum Marie (1969), Fotomodel (1970), Met Iwan op de divan (1970) and Onze Griek (1971).

In the period 1986 to 1993 she appeared alongside Carry Tefsen and Sjoukje Hooymaayer in the comedy series Zeg 'ns Aaa as Annie Kalkman, the sister of Mien Dobbelsteen.