André Brasseur
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André Brasseur (born December 11, 1939 in Ham-sur-Sambre , Belgium ) is a Belgian keyboardist . Along with Franz Lambert and Klaus Wunderlich, he was one of the most famous European representatives of the party organ sound in the 1960s and 1970s.
biography
André Brasseur made the decision to become a musician at the age of six. At the Tamines Music Academy , he enjoyed classical training on the cello. In 1959 he won first prize at the Academy of Music for his cello playing. In the early 1960s he switched to piano, founded a jazz trio with two colleagues and performed at several jazz festivals.
In 1962 he was called up for military service. Here he got to know his main instrument - the Hammond organ . With his up to seven-member military band, he played well-known standards such as On the Sunny Side of the Street , as well as his first own compositions. The highlight was the annual participation in the Comblain Jazz Festival , where Brasseur got the opportunity to make music with Benny Goodman . In the following years he wrote the title Special 230 for a Belgian television program , which became very well known.
In 1965 he had his big breakthrough. His instrumental piece Early Bird (nickname of the first commercial communications satellite Intelsat I ) rose to number one on the Belgian charts. Overall, the title stayed in the charts for four months and sold ten million copies worldwide. The piece was also a huge success in other countries such as the Netherlands, Germany and even in the USA. On commercial television , Early Bird was used as the signature tune for the “Lufthansa Cocktail” from Berentzen . In the late 1970s, Early Bird was also used as the theme song for the TV quiz program Micro Macro , hosted by Hanni Vanhaiden .
He was able to book another chart success with l'Atlantide / Studio 17 . The song was number 16 in Belgium and stayed in the charts for a month. Other well-known titles that could also be heard frequently on German radio were Speedy N ° 1 (especially on hr3 in the popular radio show "Hitparade International"), Racing Time , The Kid , Holiday and Whistling Boogie . In the 1970s, Radio Luxemburg used an excerpt from the title Special 230 as a jingle for the program “Motorists on the move”, while Bayerischer Rundfunk used the title Quello as the theme song for the weekly hit parade program “Die Schlager der Woche”.
In the 1970s he was a member of "Blues Workshop", the band of the well-known Belgian blues guitarist Roland Van Campenhout , whose tours took him to the Far East. In 1990 and 1992 he played the keyboards on the Vaya Con Dios albums "Nights Owls" and "Time Flies". Today André Brasseur appears under the name “Brasseur und Combo”, occasionally as a solo entertainer .
Web links
- Official website (French)
- André Brasseur in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- biography
- Discography ( Memento of February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Brasseur, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian keyboardist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ham-sur-Sambre , Belgium |