About Juultje Cambré
Lived 1914 – 1990 (aged 75). Juultje Cambré was a Dutch and Belgian singer, trumpeter and bandleader.
Juliana Cambré (21 October 1914 – 19 April 1990), better known as Juultje Cambré, was a Dutch singer, jazz trumpeter and women's orchestra leader.
Biography Cambré's parents, shoemaker Augustinus Juus Cambré and Maria Coleta Cambré , fled from Herentals near Antwerp in Belgium to Amsterdam in The Netherlands after the German Imperial Army invaded Belgium in August 1914. She was born at Amsterdam's Wilhelmina Gasthuis [ nl] on 21 October 1914.
Cambré learned to play the trumpet from her grandfather. but refused to give the Hitler salute on stage. but the marriage ended in divorce on 15 May 1943.
In June 1989, Cambré was interviewed on the television programme Sweet & Hot Music with Netty van Hoorn (about Dutch women's orchestras in the Interbellum) alongside pianist and saxophonist Annie van 't Zelfde.
Cambré died on 19 April 1990 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, aged 75.
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Dutch singer, trumpeter and bandleader (1914–1990)
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Juultje Cambré was born on 21 October 1914 in Amsterdam.
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Juultje Cambré died on 19 April 1990 in Rotterdam.
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