Edwin Bibiano Abath | |
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Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba | |
In office 1 November 2009 – 13 November 2013 |
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Preceded by | Frido Croes |
Succeeded by | Alfonso Boekhoudt |
Personal details | |
Born |
Aruba |
2 December 1958
Political party | Aruban People's Party |
Edwin Bibiano Abath (born 2 December 1958) is an Aruban politician and former singer who served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba from 1 November 2009 to 13 November 2013. From 1999 until 2005 he was a Member of Parliament for the Aruban People's Party in the Estates of Aruba. He represented Aruba as a singer in the 1988 OTI Festival.
Abath was born in Aruba, one of the Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles and a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. After he finished havo on Aruba, he went to Nijmegen in the Netherlands to study logopaedics. He practiced as a logopaedic in Aruba's hospital.
In 1988 he collaborated with Venezuelan pop singer Devorah Sasha in the single "Simplemente Así" sung in both English and Spanish.