Rotterdam: It is now almost 50 years ago the Continentals started as ONE christian youth group, performing contemporary christian music under leadership of the founder Cam Floria. As they had to travel accross the American continent , doing concerts on the way, they named themselves: the Continental Singers. This totally new concept became an incredible success: soon 2 Continental groups, next 3 groups were on the road, etc. In 1969 Leen La Riviere (still the European leader )overseeing 5 Continental offices) took the challenge to start in Europe with the Continentals. Today there are over 60 Continental groups on the road, singing in american, english, french, german, korean, chinese, spanish, portugese, dutch, japanese, romanian, italian, hungarian, slowak, etc. The Continentals have performed on every continent (except Antarctica), they have performed in 83 nations; they have done over 1500 tours, doing over 50.000 concerts, reaching over 15 million (!) visitors. And they made over 100 different LP/CD-productions. Songs of the Continentals have been translated in at least 25 languages. The Continentals saw major breakthroughs in the ‘seventies’ with their famous reli-musicals. The Continentals were Award-winning and have been on numerous national TV-broadcasts…