Rosy & Andres

Rosy & Andres were a Dutch musical duo made up of Rosy Pereira and Dries Holten. They recorded together from the mid to late 1970s. Their best known song is "My Love".

History

Rosy Pereira was born in 1951 and is the daughter of steel guitarist Coy Pereira. Andres is a Dutch singer, songwriter of Indonesian descent. In 1972, he represented the Netherlands at the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest.

1976

In the October 9, 1976 issue of Billboard, their single "My Love" reached position no 3 in the Dutch chart, just behind "In Zaire" by Johnny Wakelin and with "Dancing Queen" by ABBA at no 1. By October 23, 1976, their single "My Love" had dropped to no 8 in the Dutch chart. It was announced in a November 1976 issue of Billboard that they along with the Dutch Swing College Band, Jules de Corte and others had recorded for a fund raising album for the Dutch Heart Foundation, due for release on the 11th of November.

1977

While on the Eddie Becker Television Show, they were awarded a gold disc for their My Love album which was their debut album. In early June, 1977, "My Love" was no 9 in the Swiss Top Ten. Previously in late April that year, it was at no 5 in the Swiss chart. later in June of that year, they along with singers Therese Steinmetz and Conny Vink and a violin duo made up of Sem Vijveen & Benny Behr were sent to Romania for a five day visit. Rosy and Andres were to sing a song in Romanian. The song "Bucaresti" was originally "Sausilito", a Dutch Top Ten hit from 1975. In late 1977, they along with Camel, ZZ Top and other Teldec international acts were given massive promotion via the press and television spectaculars.

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Rose (color)

Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.

Rose is one of the tertiary colors on the HSV (RGB) color wheel. The complementary color of rose is spring green.

Sometimes rose is quoted instead as the web-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees.

Etymology of rose

The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English was in 1382.

The etymology of the color name rose is the same as that of the name of the rose flower. The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).

Variations of rose

Misty rose

At right is displayed the web color misty rose.