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- Wout Steenhuis was born on February 23, 1923 in Den Haag, Netherlands. He was a writer and composer, known for The Andy Carmen Show (2024), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and Tarbuck and All That! (1975). He died on July 9, 1985 in Margate-Broadstairs, England, UK.
- In addition to being a guitar virtuoso he was also a prolific composer. Under the pen name of Jelmer he is credited for such titles as Hawaiian Chimes, Blue Dolphin, Malihini March, Bora Bora, Lazy Guitar and Aroha Hawaii. The latter he sang in Maori.
- He also co-wrote Stop, a 1966 single released by Giorgio Moroder.
- In March 1946 he rejoined the Dutch Swing College Band, succeeding Otto Gobius as guitarist. His second tenure with the group was short-lived as he left the band in 1948 and relocated to England with his fiancé Leona to join his father as co-director of a fruit preserving business on the Kent coast. Steenhuis took over this post from his father but remained active as a guitarist.
- In May 1945, the day before the liberation of the Netherlands, Steenhuis's right elbow was shattered by a bullet in a battle with the Germans. He was unconscious for 4 days and awoke in a British military hospital to find that his arm had been set in such a way that he could never again play the guitar. Eventually he cajoled the busy surgeon into breaking the arm again and re-setting it so that he could return to music when he was discharged from the hospital.
- He was a Dutch multi-instrumentalist.
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