Heddy Lester

Heddy Lester (* June 18, 1950; actually Heddy Affolter ) is a Dutch singer and actress.

Career

After an interrupted studies at the " Amsterdamse Toneelschool & Kleinkunstacademie " she formed the duo with Gert Balke April Shower, you get two minor hits in their home country with the beginning of the 1970s. In her performances, she met the Dutch cabaret singer Ramses Shaffy, with whom they regularly occurred during the 1970s.

In 1977, she represented with the book written by her younger brother Frank Affolter title De Mallemolen the Netherlands to the Euro Vision Song Contest and reached the twelfth. In collaboration with her brother and the text writer Wim Hogenkamp emerged in the following years a series of solo programs.

From 1987, Lester worked as a theater actress. Among other things, she played at the Toneelgroep de Appel directed by Erik Vos in the Ghetto by Joshua Sobol piece and for three seasons in The Trojan Women by Euripides. In 2005, she was in a production of Blood Wedding by Lorca on the stage, in the 2006/07 season in the silent power of Louis Couperus. In addition, she starred in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, That's Life, Op De Wereld avenues, Potash en Perlemoer and Life Is A Cabaret. In 1991, she took a starring role in the award- winning feature film De Maria van tranen Machita by director Paul Ruven.

On 4 May 2007, she appeared in the premiere of the play 10 Duizend zakdoeken on, a tribute to her parents, who both had survived the concentration camps during the Second World War. As of September 2007, she starred in the musical Fame.

Awards

For her first solo program Lester in 1980 awarded the Pall Mall Exportprijs.

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