Jerry Van Rooyen

Jerry Van Rooyen was born as Gerard van Rooijen on 31 December 1928 in The Hague (The Netherlands). He took his first music lessons at the age of eight and soon after he joined a brass band on trumpet. Later he studied music at the Dutch conservatory in The Hague and graduated as a music teacher. His professional career started in 1944, as first trumpeter in a Dutch revue show. From 1955 on he worked for the famous…