Zelzate Tomorrow is three years since the world said goodbye to the phenomenon of Eddy Wally. The singer died at the age of 83. For his daughter Marina, Wally (61), it seems yesterday. “I miss daddy every day,” she says. In the meantime, she tries to follow in the footsteps of her father to act. “At the end of June there is a new album”, she promises solemnly.
The show must go on and so is Marina Wally three years after the death of her father. From ‘Villa Wally, the house along the Assenedesteenweg in the East-Flemish kanaaldorp Zelzate where dear father for many years of joys and sorrows shared with his Mariëtje, who in October 2012 died. There built a Marina to its own ‘Wally-sanctuary’. The garden was heraangelegd, the house was here and there a new coat of paint and in front of the window and hangs the picture of the inevitable Eddy Wally. If you have the living room walk into, you’ll even get the impression that Eddy Wally is still any time out of the kitchen. ‘Amaai, great that you are here, seg!’ “The residents are thankful to me for what I’ve done with the villa. The Wally’s are still present at The Katte. So was papa and mama the also popular”, says Marina.