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Remembering Van Halen, guitar legend with Indonesian roots – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post
Van Halen’s mother, Eugenia van Beers, who hailed from Rangkasbitung met and married the guitarist’s father Jan soon after Indonesia won its independence from t…
The passing of guitarist Eddie Van Halen hit Indonesia’s rock music scene particularly hard, not only because he was a master of the instrument and part of the pantheon of rock music alongside artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page but also because he could trace his ancestry to the city of Rangkasbitung in Banten.
Van Halen’s mother, Eugenia van Beers, who hailed from Rangkasbitung met and married the guitarist’s father Jan soon after Indonesia won its independence from the Dutch. The sen…
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