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Conny Music was born in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.
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After primary school he worked at an import/export company. At the age of 17, he traveled for the firm through countries like the former Yugoslavia and Romania. He wrote down all his experiences and sent them to regional newspapers in the Randstad.
In 1981 he moved to Jerusalem to start a company to import houseplants from the Netherlands.
The company never got off the ground, but his stories became quite popular. He worked as a freelance journalist for Dutch television broadcast organisation Earth Observation, Flemish broadcast organisation BRTN, and Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad.
In 1989 he became correspondent for RTL Nieuws on the Dutch commercial network station RTL Véronique (later RTL 4), stationed in Israel. Foreign the news program, he made more than 1,300 reports.
Music mainly covered stories from the Middle East, including Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt, but also from such countries as Cambodia, Cyprus, Kosovo, and South Africa.
He also visited war zones for his reports, including the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the 2006 War in Lebanon. In the last war, he escaped death three times. He also made reports for the news program Het Nieuws on the Flemish commercial station vtm and for international news stations including the British Broadcasting Corporation and Cable News Network. Conny Music died on 20 August 2010 of a cardiac arrest.
At the time of death, he was visiting the Dutch city of Utrecht for a holiday.
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