Toni Willé

Dutch country and pop singer Toni Willé began her music career along with her older siblings Betty Dragstra and Marianne Veldpaus in 1975 as the lead singer of Dutch Country band Pussycat. Pussycat scored a massive international hit with the beautiful song "Mississippi" in 1976. They enjoyed a steady succession of hits throughout the 70s and recorded many albums before breaking up in 1984. Toni went on to a very successful solo career. She released the album "Privilege" in 1985 followed by "Working Girl" in 1987 and "New Words to an Old Love Song" in 1989. She sang the theme song to the Dutch thriller "De Flat" in 1994. In 1999 she sang the duet "Oh, How I Miss You" with Dutch singer Benny Neyman and recorded the album "American Duets" with him in 2000. In 2004 she sang the duet "Heart Half Empty" with singer Danny Vera. With her album "Pussycat - The collection and more" Toni recorded the biggest hits of Pussycat, with "I'll be your woman" as her favorite, but also some new songs, like the ballads "Desperado" and "Still on my mind" and her own version of the big Elkie Brooks hit "Pearl's a singer". With "Pussycat - The Collection and more" she proves once again that she is a unique singer in the Netherlands with an international sound; Toni Wille reunited with her sisters Betty and Marianne for the band Major Dundee's album "Young Gods" in 2005 and Dutch singer Dennis Jones' reggae cover of "Mississippi" in 2007. Today, Toni continues to spread her wings on her very successful solo career with most recent albums such as Fantastic Stories and Worlds United. The song 'Impressions' which was the last song composed by Werner Theunissen was released in his memory in 2012. Two singles 'Happy' and 'What love can do' composed by Paul Logister were released in 2013. In 2010, she performed at the Golden Memories Concert in Fiji, organised by popular Fijian singer / song writer Daniel Rae Cosetello which she regards as one of her biggest shows in her solo career till date. She continues to performs in Netherlands, Germany, UK, South Africa where she has proved to be an especially popular singer with both old as well as new hits. Please visit Wikipedia for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Willé The Official Facebook Page of Toni Willé from Pussycat Website: http://www.toniwilleonline.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7j9WCmTKmyWcMgg6A0R6Xg