Chris Zegers will present the new AVROTROS program Een Schat aan Shaffy (A Treasure of Shaffy) next year, in which six artists will work with cassette tapes full of material by Ramses Shaffy. The program will be broadcast in the spring of 2026.
The basis of the program is a discovery by Elisah Baijens, the daughter of Liesbeth List, who passed away in 2020. Among her mother’s belongings, she found boxes full of cassette tapes with work by Shaffy, with whom List was friends for many years. According to AVROTROS, the tapes contain, among other things, “attempts, beginnings of songs, spoken texts and musical ideas.”
Which artists will participate in the program will be announced at a later time. They will edit the material into new songs, which will come together on a compilation album.
“Ramses was a source of pleasure in my early childhood,” says Zegers. “His music, his special, loving view of life and his urge for freedom were an inspiration to me from which I still draw.”
Een Schat aan Shaffy is a production of Het Volk, in collaboration with Baijens and the Ramses Shaffy Foundation. This foundation manages the work of the singer, who passed away in 2009.