Di Stefano Bio Giuseppe ‘Pippo’ Di Stefano had a unique voice. It wasn’t golden, silvery or bronze – it sounded like the Sun on a sandy beach, warming the hearts of the people in its grace. After long deliberation I used the covid period to transfer 35 years of research into the Discographical Biography of...
The biography of Hariclea Darclée The Harclea Darclée biography has been ‘in the making’ since 1997. The main text was finished in 2014. I used the time since for corrections and the design of the book, which was done by graphic designer Dick Bak. By november 2022 the book went in print in a limited,...
JACQUES BREL | THE DEFINITIVE BIO René Seghers’ Dutch language Jacques Brel biography Jacques Brel | The Definitive Biography has 512 pages, over 100 unique photographs, a fully illustrated discography and an even more unique illustrated Brel cover albums chronology. But why another Brel biography, when there are so many already? Seghers: ‘While the larger...
Franco Corelli | Prince of Tenors In December 1997 one of René Seghers first assignments for Dutch Magazine De Groene Amsterdammer was to produce a story on a Viennese 10-tenor Gala where Franco Corelli was supposed to make a one time comeback with two little Neapolitan songs. Seghers: ‘Corelli was my idol at the time...
2015-2023 I vividly remember attending a millennium party on December 31, 1999. I imagined that by 2019 we would have set foot on Mars. I envisioned a better world, where the internet prevented regimes and the forces at play from dominating the world. I am not one given to conspiracy theories, yet Wikileaks proved many...