Frizzle Sizzle were a Dutchteenage girl group of the 1980s. The four members of the group were Karin Vlasblom, Laura Vlasblom, Mandy Huydts and Marjon Keller.
The girls debuted in 1981 on the second album of Kinderen voor Kinderen, a children's choir whose ongoing television-shows are broadcast by VARA each November. All four of them were given a lead vocal; Karin in Gastarbeider, Mandy in Bijna brugklas and Marjon in Roken, an anti-smoking tirade. Laura sang Verlegenheid in an embryonic line-up of Frizzle Sizzle. Due to their age, the Vlasblom sisters left after the second album; Mandy and Marjon paid further contributions to the third album. The former sang Ik ben verliefd, the latter Op de wip. Marjon left after the fourth album on which she had minor roles in two tracks; Iedereen gaat voor z'n beurt and 'Ziek zijn. She also sang the first half of the call-for-exercise Trim trim trim.
Breaking out and breaking through
In 1984 the girls appeared on the fifth show to tell that they formed a girl group and sang about their days with the choir as a bridge between the interviews with the departures and the new batch of songs. Marjon contributed to the volumes 5 and 6 as a backing vocalist. Naming themselves Frizzle Sizzle they were selected to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with Alles heeft een ritme, a continuation of the original Kinderen voor Kinderen-sound. At the end of the night, they ranked 13th out of 20, receiving 40 points. In the Dutch charts, the song went to No. 21. Soon afterwards Frizzle Sizzle released songs in English. In early 1987 they had a No. 14 hit with Talk it Over, which was favourably compared to the established girl group Dolly Dots. Second Chance reached No. 38 the same year. Frizzle Sizzle were joint winners of the 1987 Silver Harp Awards for new bands with their first and only album First Date. In 1988 Frizzle Sizzle appeared on the educational TV-show Mijn Eerste Keer singing about their first bicycle-ride.
In 1990 they broke up but not before lending their voices to the Herman van Veen-created cartoon seriesAlfred J Kwak and releasing the World Cup-themed Alles Is Oranje. The girls remained active in showbusiness.
Laura pursued a solo career and lived with boyband singer-turned-musical actor Bastiaan Ragas.. In 1992 Laura participated in the Dutch heat of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Gouden Bergen ; she had to settle for silver as it reached the second spot. In 1999 Laura appeared on RTL's live-music programme De Vrienden van Amstel; she performed three songs backed by Dutch-Moluccan percussion-rockers Massada.
Mandy Huydts became a backing vocalist for megastar Rene Froger although she continued to perform her own songs.
Marjon Keller, now hosting radio-shows as well as doing voice-overs for RTL, always insisted on not being lived by stardom. Back in 1988 she was quoted "It fun being part of Frizzle Sizzle, but there are more things in life".
In 1995 former members of Kinderen voor Kinderen were invited to attend the 15th show. The ex-Frizzle Sizzles were unavailable, but they later made an in-crowd appearance at De Leeuw's own TV-show; still barefoot, as in their heydays.
