With its acoustic guitar intro, piano riff and haunting vocals by Mariska Veres - most memorably on the chorus, "I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, at your desire" - the single "Venus", by the Dutch ...

Mariska Veres, singer for the Dutch group Shocking Blue who had a worldwide hit with their song Venus in 1970, has died aged 59, Dutch media report. Veres died from cancer. In 1970 Venus reached ...

Mariska Veres, the voice and face behind Shocking Blue’s international hit Venus, merits an affectionate obituary in the Parool, under the headline ‘1970s Sex Bomb’. Mariske, who was 59, died of ...