Category:Wally Tax

**Wally Tax**
	Dutch singer
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Date of birth	14 February 1948; Amsterdam
Date of death	10 April 2005; Amsterdam
Work period (start)	1959;
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of the Netherlands;
Occupation	singer; composer; songwriter;
Award received	Silver Harp;
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English: Wally Tax (14 February 1948, Amsterdam - 10 April 2005, Amsterdam) was a Dutch singer and songwriter, best known as founder and frontman of the Nederbeat group The Outsiders. After commercial and artistic success with The Outsiders in the late 1960s, he had a brief solo career in the 1970s, and then was a successful songwriter, producing a number of hit songs for Dutch artists. He faded into obscurity in the 1980s; after his death in 2005 two benefit concerts in Amsterdam proved his lasting popularity and influence.

Nederlands: Wally Tax werd geboren als zoon van een Nederlandse vader en een Oekraïense moeder die elkaar in een Duits werkkamp van de Arbeitseinsatz hadden leren kennen. Hij begon als zanger van de Amsterdamse band The Outsiders, die hij op 12-jarige leeftijd oprichtte. De eerste single "You mistreat me" kwam in 1965 uit. De bandleden van het eerste uur waren, naast Tax: Ronny Splinter (sologitaar), Tom Krabbendam (slaggitaar), Appie Rammers (basgitaar) en Leendert Busch (drums).