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Pussycat
Biography
($Pussycat} was the end result of the musical aspirations of the Kowalczyk sisters Tonny Willé, Betty Drastra and Marianne Hensen). Growing up in Limburg, Netherlands, the girls first came to attention as {$Zingende Zusjes (The Singing Sisters), with a well-received their repertoire of German language songs. Adding a girl drummer to the brew, the group completely revamped their sound, and changed their name, becoming The BG's from Holland -- a direct nod to the burgeoning Big Beat movement sweeping the country, and the youthful assumption that they'd break out of their local scene.



Recording came quickly to the nascent group. They cut a single, "Tell Alain" as Sweet Reaction for the Telstar label in 1973. With the sisters still the core members of the group, by early 1975, they'd recruited drummer Theo Coumans, bassist Theo Wetzels and guitarist John Theunissen, and updated their image once again, now, and finally, emerging as Pussycat. Singing to the EMI label they recorded their first single, "Mississippi". The song became a massive seller for the group, pushing them into charts across Europe and England, where it reached #1 in August 1976. The band pushed one further single, "Smile" into the U.
Selected Discography