portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Big Bill Broonzy - family man!

Big Bill and family
Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy with son Michael van Isveldt and girlfriend Pim van Isveldt

1956 Amsterdam

Kevin D. Greene

"In Holland, he met a young Dutch theatre costume designer with whom he fell in love and produced a son. From the early 1950s to his death in 1958, Big Bill would try to maintain his relationship with Pim van Isveldt while balancing the significant changes in his career and a wife back home . . . . "


 

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