Could Van Halen Speak Dutch?

9. Eddie and Alex Van Halen speak Dutch. In the eighties they were one of the biggest rock bands in the world with one of the best guitar players of all time…

What language could Eddie Van Halen speak?

Despite moving to the US at a young age, Van Halen continued to speak Dutch. In the early 1990s, he told an interviewer that the Netherlands was a 'prachtig land' and that the herring sold at a fish stand in front of the Concertgebouw was 'delicious'.

Was Eddie Van Halen a Dutch citizen?

Van Halen, it turns out, is a Dutch immigrant born in Amsterdam who came to the U.S. when he was 7. Many people just think he was born a rock star, he says. It wasn't so easy, though, for him and his brother and bandmate Alex.