Edwin Bibiano Abath | |
Birth Date: | 2 December 1958 |
Birth Place: | Aruba |
Office: | Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba |
Term Start: | 1 November 2009 |
Term End: | 13 November 2013 |
Predecessor: | Frido Croes |
Successor: | Alfonso Boekhoudt |
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.[1] 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.[2]
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 Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands to study logopaedics. He practised as a logopaedic at Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital in Aruba.
In 1988 he collaborated with Venezuelan pop singer Devorah Sasha in the single "Simplemente Así" sung in both English and Spanish.