Don't know, but Victor Borge, Falco, Ann Margret, The Three Tenors, Yanni, Roxette, & Ace Of Base were popular in the US. I don't think they had any big hits but the Gypsy Kings got some airplay too. I guess Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli would count too.

It's Abba.

...Unless you are counting Ireland. Then its U2.

MickyDolenz said:

lazycrockett said:

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ... - B.B. King

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It became evident to me that this man, Django Reinhardt, had full command of his instrument, to say the least. He became a real favorite of mine, and ultimately one of my real guitar heroes. - Peter Frampton

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He was in Chicago, with Duke Ellington in ’46. I was out of work and spent my last dollar just to hear him play. I was in the very back of the Civic Opera House, I believe it was. He was playing some kind of electric, and I remember he would play some fine lick and the band members would yell and encourage him on.

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I was so proud for him, because I have always kind of stood in awe of black players. From Blind Blake, on up to Coltrane. Years later, Dr. Pritcher, president of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society, gave me a copy of part of that Chicago performance. What a nice gift! Anyway, I journeyed backstage, hung around and got his autograph. “D. Reinhardt” he wrote. I have since heard that’s all he could write. I sure wanted to do some finger picking for him, I’ll bet he would’ve loved it. But it never happened.
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I have written a song about that afternoon, and someday I’ll record it. I sure had, and still have, a lot of hero worship for Django. Man, he taught the world to play great lines with perfection. I still have that autograph. Maybe some day I’ll auction it for charity at one of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society (CAAS) meetings (every July in Nashville). - Chet Atkins

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...I don’t have to practice too much now. You know, because I know what I want to do in classical and I know what I want to do in jazz. So these things at least came easy to me because of the fact that I would listen to this kind of music. I mean, I listened to Segovia and I listened to Django Reinhardt, so I got the feel and the flavour. - Jose Feliciano

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By far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt. I'm sort of a newcomer to his work, although I was always aware of him. Django was quite superhuman. There's nothing normal about him, as a person or a player.

His electric palying in the forties is just humiliating. His lead lick--whew! I slow them down, and I still can't grasp what he's doing. Recently I acquired some rare scratchy black-and-white film of Django playing. It's the most glorious, but tantalizing short footage, but he is playing like crazy. I've been studying it in slow motion, and all you can see are these two grubby fingers going like lightening up and down the fretboard. - Jeff Beck

I just remembered, there was 2 Unlimited. I think Get Ready For This is still played at sporting events and as background music on radio station announcements.

I was listening to a lot of dance music at the time and buying remix albums & singles, so I liked 2 Unlimited and I thought Anita was cute.

MickyDolenz said:

I was listening to a lot of dance music at the time and buying remix albums & singles, so I liked 2 Unlimited and I thought Anita was cute.

Please, erase that band from your brain and know that is not what Dutch music is about.

Check out: Aux Raus, Bettie Serveert, Shocking Blue, Cuby and the Blizzards, Time Bandits, Doe Maar, Within Temptation, Anouk, Ceasar, Caro Emerald, Bo Saris, Jett Rebel, Erik Vloeimans, Kyteman, Wouter hamel, Andre Rieu, Alain Clark, Abel, Frank Boeijen, Ilse de Lange, Laura Vlasbloem, Do, Wibi Soerjadi, Rosenberg Trio, Nielson, Gers Pardoel, Trijntje Oosterhuis, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Perquisite, Pete Philly. Miss Montreal, Ilse de Lange to name just a few.

My favorite DJ's Sandrien van Rossum, Joost van Bellen, Junkie XL.

dJJ said:

Trijntje Oosterhuis

I'm familiar with her, she does a lot of Stevie Wonder songs and she performed with Herbie Hancock a few years ago

MickyDolenz said:

dJJ said:

Trijntje Oosterhuis

I'm familiar with her, she does a lot of Stevie Wonder songs and she performed with Herbie Hancock a few years ago

Yes, and she is going to represent THe Netherlands during the Euro Songfestival this year. Song written by Anouk.