Maria (Mary) Servaes-Beij (;

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, 5 August 1919 –

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, 23 October 1998) was a Dutch

levenslied Levenslied (Dutch, literally "life song" or "song about life") is a sentimental Dutch-language subgenre of popular music. ''Levenslied'' lyrics can be sweet or bitter, light and sentimental, but also reflective and dark, about subjects such as love, ...

singer. She performed under the stage name Zangeres Zonder Naam (English: Singer without a name). She recorded almost 600 songs over the course of her career. Servaes-Beij cared about the poor and disadvantaged, and often performed in prisons and hospitals. She was regularly in direct contact with her public, and received many emotional letters. The Zangeres Zonder Naam was one of the artists who performed at the Dutch ''Miami Nightmare'' concert (Amsterdam, 8 October 1977). This evening was directed against

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and her anti-gay movement, and the Zangeres Zonder Naam performed her own song ''Luister Anita'' ("Anita, listen to me"), in which she compared Bryant with

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* 1919 births 1998 deaths Dutch levenslied singers People from Leiden Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism 20th-century Dutch women singers {{Netherlands-singer-stub