 After winning a number of amateur talent contests on Aruba he tried his luck and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1962.Besides accepting a job at he joined the beat groups "The Scarlets" from The Hague, changing to the Rotterdam garage rock band "Kreole Kats" which renamed to "Julio [Euson] & the Kreole Kats".Meeting jazz musicians Chris Hinze, flute player, and Cees Schrama, keyboardist and some former members of "The Lords", formerly the supporting group of singer Rob de Nijs in 1967 resulted in cooperating as "Stax", the supporting group of J.B. Euson.