Yvonne Keeley

Yvonne Keeley ( born September 6, 1952 actually Yvonne Paay ) is a Dutch singer and radio presenter.

Life

Keeley was born as the younger sister of singer Patricia Paay. Initially she wanted to become a lab technician. At the beginning of the 1970s she lived in the UK, where she was with the British singer Steve Harley, the founder and lead singer of the glam rock band Cockney Rebel, romantically involved. From this marriage two children come. When they wanted to record his own album in 1974, the record company was initially reluctant, to avoid confusion with her ​​popular sister. Harley then devised the pseudonym Keeley.

In January 1978, Keeley ended up with the single If I Had Words, which she had recorded with the British singer Scott Fitzgerald, a number -one hit in the Netherlands and the Flemish part of Belgium. The recording was a reggae adaptation of the Maestoso from Symphony No. 3 (" Organ Symphony " ) by Camille Saint- Saëns. In their home country, the single was 17 weeks in the Top 40 the following year the single reached Best Friend I Know, a duet with her sister, Patricia, also the charts.

In 1983 she formed with her sister Patricia, and a third changing the singer trio The Star Sisters.

In May 1987, Keeley was photographed nude for the Dutch edition of Playboy. From 1988 she worked as a presenter for the commercial broadcasters Cable One. In 1991, she worked as a news anchor for the Rotterdam station Stads TV. The following year, she moved to her sister and her brother Adam Curry in the United States.

From 1997 to 2001 she presented in collaboration with Ron Sint Nicolaas on Radio Rijnmond the shipment Keeley in de middag. In addition, she has regularly Sanne Boswinkel in their afternoon show on the same radio station.