Does Eddie Van Halen have Indonesian blood?

Does Eddie Van Halen have Indonesian blood?

NEW YORK -- Legendary rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, born in the Netherlands to an Indonesia-born mother and Dutch father, died Tuesday after battling cancer. He was 65. His son, Wolfgang, announced the death on Twitter.

Are Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen friends?

Sammy Hagar has revealed that he and Eddie Van Halen made peace and became friends again before the guitar hero's death. According to a note Hagar sent to The Howard Stern Show, the long-feuding former Van Halen bandmates began talking again earlier this year.

Is Robin van Persie Indonesian?

3) Robin van Persie Recognised as one of the best strikers in the world, the Manchester United attacker and Netherlands captain is reported as having an Indonesian grandmother.

What happened to Eddie Van Halen's mother?

Classic rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen has died at the age of 65 from throat cancer.

Did Eddie and Sammy get along?

Eddie and Sammy seemed to get along for a while, but as with the band's first singer, things eventually began to go south with the new guy. ... According to Ultimate Classic Rock, and Eddie (but not necessarily Sammy), Hagar's tenure with Van Halen ended with a final phone call in June 1996.

What did Sammy Hagar say about Eddie Van Halen dying?

Sammy Hagar says that he “fell apart” after hearing of Eddie Van Halen's death. ... “The way I've swallowed this pill, and [I've] been able to say, 'You know what, we made 11 years of music together,” Hagar stated. “We wrote some 40, 50 million-selling records and some of the greatest songs in rock history.

What kind of ethnicity does Eddie Van Halen have?

• His father was Dutch. His mother was Eurasian, from Rangkasbitung, on the island of Java, Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia; she had Indonesian, Dutch, and approximately one eighth Italian, ancestry. The family also lived in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Where did Eddie Van Halen meet his wife?

• The Van Halen family matriarch Eugenia met her future husband Jan, who was a traveling musician, in Indonesia when it was still under Dutch rule and the couple later moved to the Netherlands where the future rock stars were born.

When did Eddie Van Halen come to America?

• In 1962, the family packed up for the U.S., traveling for nine days by boat, and eventually settled in the Pasadena, California area where their issues with discrimination and racism continued. “Then they came to America and did not speak English as a first language in the early ’60s. Wow,” Roth said on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast.

What kind of cancer did Eddie Van Halen have?

• Van Halen, who died Tuesday of throat cancer at 65, was the son of Dutch and Indonesian immigrants and spent his childhood in the Netherlands.