Jan Smit and John Denver

Dutch pop and schlager singer Jan Smit first hit it big in 2005 with Vrienden Voor Het Leven, a reality television series based on his life, but he kept on selling beyond that to become one of the most bankable and reliable Dutch pop stars of the new millennium. His biggest albums came in the wake of the reality show, notably jansmit.com in 2005, Op Weg Naar Geluk in 2006, and Stilte in de Storm in 2008 -- all of which reached multi-platinum status in the Netherlands. When his first hit, "Ik Zing Dit Lied Vorr Jou Alleen," came out in 1997, however, Johannes Hendricus Maria S...