Johnny Young
Johnny Young was born in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands on March 12th, 1947 and is the Composer. At the age of 77, Johnny Young biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Johnny Young (born Johnny Benjamin de Jong; 12 March 1947) is a Dutch Australian singer, composer, record producer, disc jockey, television producer and host.
Originally from Rotterdam, Netherlands, his family settled in Perth, Western Australia in the early 1950s.
Young had a career in the 1960s as a pop singer and had a number one hit with the double-A-side, "Step Back" and "Cara-lyn" in 1966, and his profile was enhanced by a concurrent stint as host of the TV pop program The Go!! Show.
As a composer, he penned number one hits, "The Real Thing" and "The Girl That I Love" for Russell Morris, "The Star" for Ross D. Wyllie and "I Thank You" for Lionel Rose and the hit single "Smiley" for Ronnie Burns.
After his pop career ended he returned to TV where he presented and produced the popular television show, Young Talent Time, which screened on Network Ten from 1971 to 1988 – it launched the careers of numerous teen pop stars especially Jamie Redfern, Debra Byrne (then known as Debbie Byrne), Dannii Minogue and Tina Arena, as well as Jane Scali, Sally Boyden and Karen Knowles – typically each episode closed with a sing-along rendition of The Beatles song "All My Loving". On 9 March 1990, Young was inducted into the TV Week Logie Awards' Hall of Fame.
On 27 October 2010, he was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame by Arena who performed his song, "The Star".
He is the first person to be inducted into both halls.
Personal life
Young was raised as the son of Fokke Jan de Jong and his wife Anna. They already had three children Cornelia, Antonia and Ferdinand. His mother had an affair while her husband was stationed in Indonesia, and Young's biological father was a singer, Johannes. When Young was in his 40s he met Johannes and found that he had three other half-siblings. His first marriage was to Jane, with whom he had his son Craig, but the marriage ended in divorce and Jane died of leukaemia. In the early 1970s, he married his second wife Cathy and they had two daughters Anna and Fleur.
Both his mother and step-father died in 1989 and his marriage to Cathy ended by 1995. Young married Rose McKimmie on 24 December 1999 in Bali and they lived in a battery-operated rural cottage about an hour-and-half from Melbourne. In February 2014 he said the marriage to Rose had been a mistake and lasted only eighteen months. He married Marisha, an economist, in 2002 and they remain together as of 2017.
Young has had three children, Craig (died c. 2014 of pancreatic cancer), Anna and Fleur; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Anna is a singing and dancing teacher for seniors at The Johnny Young Talent School, after studying at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and performing in musical theatre. Fleur works in fashion.
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