Willy Alberti (born Carel Verbrugge; 14 October 1926 â€" 18 February
1985) was a Dutch singer, who sang in Dutch and Italian. He was also
an actor and a radio and TV personality.Alberti was born in Amsterdam
as the third of eight children to Jacobus Wilhelm Verbrugge and Sophia
Jacoba van Musscher. He sang with family members at a very young
age.He began recording professionally in the early 1940s. In 1944 he
married Ria Kuiper and his daughter Willeke Alberti, later to become a
successful Dutch vocalist herself, was born in 1945. After the war
Alberti established himself in the Netherlands with Italian songs; he
became increasingly popular in the 1950s, when he had a string of hits
beginning with Nel blu dipinto di blu in 1958. In the 1960s he began
to act alongside his daughter Willeke; as a duo, they also scored hits
on the Dutch charts. From 1965 father and daughter presented a popular
monthly television show for the AVRO. Alberti won two Edison Awards in
the 1960s.In the 1970s, Alberti's fame began to decline, though he did
score a few more hits. In 1984, Alberti was diagnosed with liver
cancer, and he died in Amsterdam on 18 February of the following year,
aged 58. He was cremated at the Westgaarde Crematorium in Amsterdam. Willy Alberti Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter