Tol & Tol

Dutch Instrumental Pop Duo

Tol & Tol is a pop duo, consisting of the brothers Cees and Thomas Tol, from Volendam, The Netherlands. At the beginning of 1990 they charted at #1 position for two weeks in the Dutch National Hit Parade with the number Eleni. It also became a hit abroad. Cees and Thomas Tol were part of the band BZN for a long time. Cees was even one of the founders. Thomas was also a composer of the Volendam group and in that capacity introduced the famous 'eelsound'. Titles such as Mon Amour, Sevilla, Pearlydumm, Just an illusion, Amore and If I say the words all reached the upper reaches of the Dutch charts. From 1976 Thomas Tol composed a total of 24 BZN hits, of which 18 reached the top 10. Mon Amour (1976) was good for the first place of the Top 40 and the National Hit Parade. Pearlydumm (1980) was only number one in the Top 40. In 1988 the Tol brothers stepped out of BZN shortly after each other to continue together. Their first album, with their Greek-language no.1 hit in the National Hit Parade Eleni was a great success. Hereafter followed was the hit Sedalia and a series of in total five albums that all achieved the Album Top 100. They were also popular abroad, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and South Africa. From the beginning their niece Corina Vamvakari is their regular singer. Since 2002, Tol & Tol have been the producers of all Jan Smit's CDs. Cees & Thomas also intervene now and then the occasional formation BZN'66. In 2013 Cees Tol BZN'66 and the showbiz left after a cerebral infarction. Cees Tol died on April 13, 2018 at the age of 70 at the hospital due to the consequences of sudden pneumonia.