Wally Tax

Wally Tax was one of Holland's most iconic rock & roll performers in the 1960s and ‘70s, first earning fame as the lead singer with the band the Outsiders and later making a name for himself as a solo artist and a songwriter. Wladimir Tax was born in Amsterdam on February 14, 1948; his father was Dutch, and his mother was Romany of Russian heritage. Tax claimed that he learned English from American soldiers stationed in Amsterdam, and that he used to help them pick up girls; when the first wave of rock & roll began to make itself heard in the Netherlands in the late '50s, Tax ...