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Ron Link (singer)

Dutch actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2586680 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ron Link (Nijmegen, 22 September 1979) is a Dutch singer and actor in musical theatre.

Career

He began his career as a model for a sauna promotion. In 2004, he competed in the Dutch version Idols where he managed to reach the final 10 but was ultimately voted off in the third round, making him the eighth finalist. Since then he has made numerous appearances on television programs in the Netherlands.

In 2006, he was chosen in the TV show Wie Wordt Tarzan? (Who is going to be Tarzan?) to play Tarzan in the Dutch version of the musical. The program had one of the highest audience shares of any television program in the Netherlands. Link is played the role in the Netherlands and continued with the production when it moved to Sweden. In preparing for the role, Link got to work with such notable artists as Phil Collins. In 2007, he was awarded with the Nashuatec Musical Award (John Kraaijkamp Musical Award) for new musical talent.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ron Link (singer)” as dutch actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2004, 2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1979-09-22, 1978-09-22—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Link, singer and Dutch can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as dutch actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2586680. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ron Link (singer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.