Dirk Schoufs

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Dirk Schoufs (born February 9, 1962 ; † May 24, 1991 ) was a Belgian bass player , session musician and music producer . He became known as a founding member of the pop group Vaya Con Dios .

Musical career

In the 1980s Dirk Schoufs was the double bass player in the Belgian rockabilly group The Wild Ones. With rock'n'roll titles such as Best Way to Jive, a cover version of the Chuck Berry number Maybellene and Cat Woman , the band achieved national recognition. Before the release of the first record (Crossroads, 1986), Schoufs left the group and founded together with the singer Danielle Schoovaerts, known as Dani Klein , who had met him in a Brussels bar and with whom he produced songs he had written, and the guitarist Willy Lambregt (stage name: Willy Willy) the commercially successful pop formation Vaya Con Dios. As a musician and band member, he was involved in three of the group's albums. Schoufs also had a private relationship with the singer Dani Klein.

At the beginning of 1991, before the release of the album Time flies with which he had recorded , Schoufs left the group to work with the Belgian jazz singer Isabelle Antena , his new partner both privately and musically. With cool blue-eyed soul pieces in the style of Sade , Sarah Jane Morris and Carmel , Isabelle Antena had achieved a certain level of awareness in the late 1980s and early 1990s . As a musician, Schoufs was involved in two Antena albums - Les Derniers Guerriers Romantiques and Carpe Diem. The latter appeared only for the French and Japanese markets. More important for the production, however, was his role as producer - a factor that some music reviewers also explicitly recognized. The collaboration with Isabelle Antena, however, remained a short interlude: Dirk Schoufs died on May 24, 1991 at the age of 29 as a result of an HIV infection that he contracted while injecting heroin with a contaminated needle.

In February / March 1991 Dirk Schoufs played the role of Hank in the movie production Mau Mau by Uwe Schrader . Originally Dirk Schoufs was also supposed to compose parts of the music in the film - his untimely death thwarted this.

In 2010 the producer duo Milk & Sugar released a successful remix version of the Vaya Con Dios song Nah Neh Nah - a piece in which Schoufs was involved not only as a musician but also as a composer.

Discography

With Vaya Con Dios

  • Vaya Con Dios (1988; BMG Ariola)
  • Night Owls (1990; BMG Ariola)
  • Time Flies (1992; BMG Ariola)

With Isabelle Antena

  • Les Derniers Guerriers Romantiques (1991; Les Disques Du Crépuscule)
  • Carpe Diem (1992; Victor Musical Industries; released only in France and Japan)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , p. 95.
  2. ↑ Vaya Con Dios ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Band biography on music-story-com, accessed on February 15, 2011 (French)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.music-story.com
  3. ↑ a b Dirk Schoufs at discogs.com
  4. ↑ Information on Carpe Diem on itmrecordings.com
  5. ↑ German review on Les Derniers Guerriers Romantiques , Heinz Gelking, Isabelle Antena's blog at MySpace.com, December 15, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Schoufs, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian bass player, session musician and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1962
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1991