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Jetty Paerl (born 27 May 1921, Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer, who was most famous in the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Dutch artist Cees Bantzinger. During the World War II, she lived in London, as the Netherlands was occupied by Nazi Germany. There she participated in the broadcasts of Radio Oranje, the Dutch government in exile, and was known as Jetje van Radio Oranje ("Jetty of Radio orange"). In 1956 she represented the Netherlands in the first Eurovision Song Contest with the song "De Vogels Van Holland" (The Birds of Holland) written by Annie M.G. Schmidt and...

Jetty Rae is a singer-songwriter based out of Ann Arbor Michigan, originally from Northern Michigan. Jetty has been singing, touring, and recording for the past five years. While living in Hawaii for two years, she became inspired and picked up the guitar—and made many friends, which led to her first regular gigs at a place called “Dirty Jakes.” Jetty would play facing the ocean, as she recalls one time a man was so at peace while she was playing he fell asleep in his bar stool. While in Hawaii, she also joined the rap and hip-hop group Soul Chronicle, and...

The sea leaves its mark on a man. Old, salt-encrusted sailors never meet a man’s eye when they can see the ocean. The smell and taste of the salt air work into the crevices and cracks of souls, never to be washed away. The sea—like music—is a mistress who lets her man stray, because she knows he will always come back... River Jetty was born from the sea. That spot—where the diseased run-off from humanity meets mother ocean—was where Nico Merman first launched his (non-metaphorical) sailboat, purchased on the verge of a mental breakdown in 2004. Nico (guitar and vocals)...

Jetty Road have forged their own path and decided to go for it in a big way. 2009 saw the release of their new album, Life at a Million Miles - a new chapter in their remarkable journey.   This album has a distinct flavour about it – confident with no apologies. “I stopped retreating to the backline, and I went out and I started playing the front nine” together with “I’ve always played my cards just how I wanted” and “this time I’m digging my feet down in the sand” are lyrics that capture the high and lows of their...

Jetty Boys are a pop punk/powerpop trio from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. They released their self titled debut album in 2008. The band includes former members of the Leg Hounds. http://www.myspace.com/jettyboys .