Education
Kaagman attended high school at Huygens Lyceum, Voorburg and was a member of the school choir and a school band, The Rangers. She also completed a secretarial course.
Kaagman attended high school at Huygens Lyceum, Voorburg and was a member of the school choir and a school band, The Rangers. She also completed a secretarial course.
She recorded as a solo artist also, and after her career as a singer worked for the music industry, as president of the Dutch musicians" union BV Population As a public relations manager for a radio station. And on television, as a judge on television talent show Idols.
In September 1969 she was invited to sing in the popular group Earth and Fire.
After the band split in 1983, she made two solo albums, and appeared in the first issue of Dutch Playboy (May 1983). She made another appearance at the age of 60 in April 2008.
Kaagman was president of the Dutch musicians" union BV Population In the nineties, she was the public relations manager at the radio station Noordzee FM, and in 2000 she became director of Buma Culture Foundation.
On December 26, 2008, she announced her departure from the music industry over Radio 1 and supports making music downloads illegal.
On March 31, 2009, Jerney Kaagman left Buma Culture. Kaagman never married, but has lived with Bert Ruiter, bass player for Focus and Earth and Fire. On October 18, 2012, she announced that she suffers from Parkinson"s disease.