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Вⷡeͤnny Rͬeͤeͤs͛ Рⷬhͪoͦᴛⷮoͦgrͬaͣрⷬhͪeͤrͬ

Woͦoͦdͩs͛ᴛⷮoͦcͨᴋⷦS͛ᴛⷮyleͤ ‘69  -  S͛ᴛⷮrͬeͤeͤᴛⷮFaͣs͛hͪiͥoͦn

     𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝐹𝑒𝑚𝑚𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡   👠

‘𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴’

𝑀𝑦 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑊𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙

1969 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑆 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘

𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣, 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗. 𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕤𝕥. 𝕀 𝕔𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕚𝕥❕ 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕤𝕥❕ 𝕄𝕪 𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕙𝕪 𝕓𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤❕

𝐿𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑎 - 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛 2023 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠

𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘚𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘣𝘺. 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘴 "𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 👩🏻‍🦳 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦!

Вⷡrͬeͤdͩaͣ

“𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑙’𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑟”

“𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑧𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑣𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑑𝑒”

“𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒”

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 “Todas las caras del amor”

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S͛ynoͦрⷬs͛iͥs͛ Вⷡeͤnny Rͬeͤeͤs͛

Benny was in the 60s, the era of the hippie culture, a guitar student of the famous classic Dutch pianist / composer Loek van der Leeden. At that time he also formed his first bands. Benny frequently visited the Swiss city Vevey, where his uncle lived. Together they regularly visited the famous Montreux Casino, where Benny was singing songs of the Beatles, accompanied by piano. Since that time he only wanted to write songs and record his songs in a studio. He always had great admiration for the singer-songwriters of the 60s and 70s.

Late 70s, early 80s, Benny wrote occasionally an editorial piece about Dutch artists in a Dutch newspaper. He also was editorially involved in the Dutch paper edition of 'Kappa?', where the Hilversum disc jockey Peter Teekamp (Radio Veronica) was editor in chief. 'Kappa?' was a magazine about illegal radio stations at sea and on land. They shared an experience with illegal radio stations. Teekamp began his career at Radio Mi Amigo and Radio Caroline and Benny owned in the 70s a major radio station in his hometown. He built his own secret radio transmitter and could be heard far beyond the German border. Benny was sometimes a guest in the radio programs of Radio Veronica. He was quite familiar with radio.

After writing an article about the famous Dutch record producer, composer and trumpeter Riny Schreijenberg (Marty), some musical doors opened to him, which were very useful. Schreijenberg soon realized that Benny wrote his own songs and also played guitar. He invited Benny to record his first single in the MMRecords studio in Arnhem. The single with the bright name "Capri" was quickly born. It was also just about the Italian island, where Benny had spent his last holidays.

Benny Rees transferred in 1983 for a short time to another recording studio; Bert Tinge in the commuter village Peize, near Groningen. There he recorded his autobiographical Dutch song "Gerda's letter to Father”. This vinyl sound recording was released on the CBS label Artone. It was the RNW, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, which gave the first airplay to this record. Rees also participated in the "National Festival of the Golden Key” which was organized by the Conamus Foundation (since 1-3-2006 Foundation Buma Culture). Benny Rees scored high with his second single. John de Mol Sr, member of the jury and founder of Conamus, was very impressed. Also Ben Holthuis, editor of the showbiz magazine Story, immediately wrote several positive articles about Benny, which was particularly good for his image in the “Dutch radio scene”. The notorious Dutch Pirate stations came into action immediately and Benny's sound recording was on air again and again, reaching a lot of listeners. Performances in the Netherlands and Belgium followed quickly.

The third single "If I Were a Rich Man" was also recorded in the MMRecords studio and released. It is a Dutch pop-schlager song. Benny wrote both text and music. The Hilversum radio disc jockey Will Luikinga (Radio Veronica) was the first to give him radio airplay. Herman Emmink quickly followed and gave airplay in his radio program “departing travellers”, which was broadcasted from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Benny also worked with MMRecords. Riny Schreijenberg and Benny often went out with a coach that was converted in a 24-track studio to record choirs anywhere in the Netherlands. Ultimately this resulted in the release of an LP-record for the choir itself. To be on the road with a mobile recording studio was for that time very ambitious.

Benny Rees did also radio promotion for de record company. His aim was to get as much airplay on Dutch Radio and TV stations as possible. Dutch artists needed the radio stations after their release to get a lot of publicity. Artist, songwriter and composer wanted much airplay after their release, which was very important to be able to live!

In 1985 Benny’s last vinyl single was released entitled "Anneliesje”. Riny Schreijenberg did the production and the single was released at the VNC-label of music publisher Johan Hense.In 2010 he released a single on streaming services, a.o. on iTunes, intended to upload. The song "Loneliness in love" is an autobiographical text, written after his wife deceased from breast cancer. Benny released it, using the pseudonym "Singer Without a Name”. No one knew that this was Benny. The text was sensitive and suited him, but his temporary new name was a joke! Benny owns the record label "BR Dutch Records”. In recent years Benny changed his focus more on concert, festival and music photography. He prefers singer-songwriters and new young talents.  He had also some famous artists for his lens. Benny portrayed the world famous singer-songwriter Melanie Safka, who received world fame after her performance at the legendary Woodstock Music & Art-festival in the US city of Bethel in 1969. Benny obviously had more legendary artists and unknown talent for his lens. His photo and music promotion platform has in recent years produced many loyal followers; Nancy Sinatra is one of them. In recent years, Benny frequently is engaged in street and portrait photography, mainly in Amsterdam. He selects his models carefully and portrays them for the future!

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Melanie Safka-Schekeryk '' Melanie ''
Melanie Songs: 'Brand New key' 'Lay Down' 'Ruby Tuesday'  'Beautiful People'.
Woodstock - Festival 1969
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Woodstock  Style  PHotography

Woodstock Style Photography

by. photographer Benny Rees New York

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The Opposites
HipHop

  

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Rappersduo (Big2)

Willem de Bruin and Twan van steenhoven

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Latin Village festival visitors

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Douwe Bob

Douwe Bob will represent the Netherlands at the 61st

Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm 

Douwe Bob`s Doggie

Douwe Bob won in 2012 `De beste Singerongwriter van Nederland` ''Giel Beelen''

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Racoon

 Rockband singer 'Bart van der Weide'

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HipHop DJ

 

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When You Were Young

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Kenny B

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Benny Rees Photography KennyB and Girls (Lyn Stephans)

 

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Dutch Legend! Riem de Wolff 

Blue Diamonds

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The Blue Diamonds (Riem de Wolff & Ruud de Wolff)
were a Dutch 1960s rock and roll duo, best known 
for their million-selling chart-topping single,"Ramona".
 Ruud de Wolff died at the end of year 2000
Since 2001 Riem's (foto) performing solo! 
 
Riem de Wolff  - Blue Diamonds (Ramona)

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Summerloverz  festival

   

HouseMusic DanceMusic

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Joanna Bridge

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Jill Helena

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Jill Helena

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DJ Billy The Kit

Ruben Vitalis
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Photography by. Benny Rees & StèphanieBenEl

Miss Montreal

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DJ La Fuente

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La Fuente (Job Smeltzer)

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DJ Jean  from The Netherlands!

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DJ Jean is een pseudoniem van Jan Engelaar

Dutch housedeejay

International music festival, iT (Manfred langer), Radio 538, Slam FM

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DJ Fajah lourens

Ooit ''goede tijden, slechte tijden'' (actrice) en v.a. 2011 werkzaam als DJ in de Dancewereld!

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Krachtstroom festival

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DJ Mike Mago

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Evelien van den Bergh

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Latin Village

Spaarnwoude

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 When different cultures come together

Music Style:  Latin, Rumba, Merenque, House, R&B, Urban, Salsa, Electic, Bachata

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Laura Ponticorvo

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Woodstock Style Photography by. Benny Rees

   

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Aveneu Lady

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DJ  La Fuente  Genre House music

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Showbizz Photography

Music Platform
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Benny Rees Music Media is an independent musicplatform
''Pop Portrait ''  ''Festival''  ''Street''  ''Showbizz  Photography''

Woodstock festival 1969 in Berthel New York

Onze  ''Woodstock Style Photography''  is geïnspireerd door

het Woodstock Music & Art Fair Music- festival dat van 15 tot en met 18 augustus 1969
gehouden werd in de Amerikaanse plaats Bethel in de staat  New York.
Dit was het belangrijkste en bekendste festival uit de geschiedenis van Amerika.
Het heeft ook gezorgd voor een omslag in de hippiecultuur, popmuziek over de hele wereld.

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Legendarische artiesten zoals Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Melanie Safka, Santana,
Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Rivival en The Who maakte op het Woodstock festival hun debuut.
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Enkele grote namen  mocht ik in het verleden ontmoeten en fotograferen.
 Woodstock, het hippietijdperk waar al onze hedendaagse festivals zijn ontstaan.
Het Woodstock festival uit de jaren zestig beleefd nog steeds om de zoveel jaar een anniversary.

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500.000 festivalgangers kwamen op dit legendarische woodstock

 festival af, waarvan de meeste het entree kaartje nog niet eens hadden

 betaald. Het Woodstock festival draaide in de eerste instantie met groot

 verlies. Achteraf is dat volledig goed gekomen door de gigantische verkoop

 van (vinyl) platen en film.

In de jaren zestig was ook Ibiza een populaire plek waar 

Hippies van over de hele wereld naar toe trokken. Nog steeds is Ibiza

 voor deejay's, artists, festival visitors en muziekliefhebbers een ideale plek om te zijn

American Singer/Songwriter

 Woodstock legend 1969

Melanie Safka
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