Ozark Henry

Ozark Henry (2006)

Ozark Henry at the Pop / Folk Festival in Dranouter (Belgium)

Ozark Henry is the stage name of the Belgian musician, singer and composer Piet Goddaer (born April 29, 1970 in Kortrijk , Belgium).

Ozark Henry's music style can be classified between pop and rock, the songs are characterized by elaborate arrangements and a high level of melodiousness. His distinctive singing has a high recognition value .

The beginnings

Piet Goddaer is the son of the classical and jazz composer Norbert Goddaer. He started playing the saxophone and piano at the age of six. Goddaer got to sixteenth birthday an electric guitar donated and founded with his brother Jan rock band Church of the Nemesis .

In the further course Goddaer played in several local Belgian bands. As the rapper of the band Word , which was founded by his brother Jan, Goddaer marked a cult hit in 1994 with the song Henry Man - She .

Music career

In 1995 Goddaer used the stage name Ozark Henry. The name Ozark is based on a highland plateau in the USA ( Ozark Mountains ) and Henry is the name of some characters in novels by William S. Burroughs .

"I thought it would be cool if I had an artist's name that would be easier to pronounce than my own name - especially in other languages. I saw an old picture of two children from the Ozark mountain range [in the US]. The angle of the photo focuses on the kitten they're holding, so you can't see their heads. I chose the word 'Ozark' because, like the picture, my music is about a different way of looking at something that is common. 'Henry' is the name of several characters in William Burroughs' books, which I read. He also uses it to refer to heroin - but that's not my intention, of course. "

- Ozark Henry in : B There Magazine, 11/2010

The following year his debut album, I'm Seeking Something That Has Already Found Me , was released, which received high praise from critics, but was not a great commercial success.

The second album This Last Warm Solitude was released in Belgium in 1998 and the Netherlands, Germany and France the following year. In 1999 Goddaer received a Zamu Music Award for best songwriter / composer.

The following album, Birthmarks , was released in 2001 and marked the commercial breakthrough for Ozark Henry. The singles Rescue and Sweet Instigator were very successful in Belgium. The album went platinum in Belgium. In 2001 Goddaer won two Zamu Music Awards in the categories best pop / rock and best producer . Because of his great success, Henry now appeared regularly on television and radio shows.

His fourth album The Sailor Not The Sea was released in 2004 and reached gold status in Belgium the following year.

In November 2005 his first DVD was released, entitled Easter Sunday // Live At The Ancienne Belgique . It shows an approximately 2 hour long concert from March 27, 2005 from the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, which includes 21 titles.

The fifth album The Soft Machine was released in September 2006. Decoupling These Days reached as the first single from Ozark Henry at all the top 20 of the Belgian Ultratop 50 charts.

On the occasion of his tenth anniversary as a solo artist, the best-of album A Decade was released in 2007 .

Stef Catteeuw, who had been guitarist for Ozark Henry since 2001, died unexpectedly in 2009. Catteeuw's eye-catching guitar sound helped shape the musical style of the albums The Sailor Not The Sea and The Soft Machine .

In 2010 the compilation The Essential was released , which contains all singles from 1996 to 2006, as well as soundtrack material and rare songs.

In October 2010 Ozark Henry released his sixth studio album with Hvelreki . It is Henry's first album for EMI Music. It was published in Germany on April 15, 2011.

In the spring of 2013 Ozark Henry announced his seventh studio album Stay Gold , the first single being the duet I'm Your Sacrifice . Expected release date is April 19, 2013.

Goddaer also wrote the music for several theater projects and soundtracks for the Belgian television series Sedes & Belli and the Dutch feature film Kreuzzug in Jeans , based on a novel by Thea Beckman .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		BE F	BE W	NL
2001	Birthmarks	BE F8th platinum (92 weeks)BE F	BE W28 (4 weeks) BE W	-	Placed in the Walloon charts only in 2003
2003	Sedes & Belli	BE F27 (9 weeks) BE F	-	-	Soundtrack
2004	The Sailor Not the Sea	BE F3 gold (64 weeks)BE F	BE W12 (45 weeks) BE W	NL83 (3 weeks) NL
2006	The Soft Machine	BE F1 platinum (52 weeks)BE F	BE W4 (42 weeks) BE W	NL39 (4 weeks) NL
	Crusade in jeans	BE F82 (3 weeks) BE F	-	-	Soundtrack
2007	A decade	BE F7th gold (30 weeks)BE F	BE W27 (25 weeks) BE W	-	Best of album
2010	Hvelreki	BE F1 platinum (44 weeks)BE F	BE W1 (36 weeks) BE W	NL26 (2 weeks) NL
2012	Le monde nous appartient	BE F72 (2 weeks) BE F	BE W66 (3 weeks) BE W	-	Soundtrack
2013	Stay gold	BE F1 platinum (74 weeks)BE F	BE W7 (47 weeks) BE W	-
2014	Live 2014: The Journey Is Everything	BE F17 (14 weeks) BE F	BE W50 (6 weeks) BE W	-
2015	Paramount	BE F1 gold (24 weeks)BE F	BE W6 (25 weeks) BE W	NL73 (1 week) NL	with the National Orchestra of Belgium
2017	Us	BE F2 (22 weeks) BE F	BE W7 (26 weeks) BE W	NL27 (1 week) NL

More albums

• I'm Seeking Something That Has Already Found Me (1996)
• This Last Warm Solitude (1998)
• To Walk Again (Soundtrack, 2007)
• Grace (live album, 2008)
• The Essential (Best-of-Album, 2010)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		BE F	BE W
2006	These Days The Soft Machine	BE F20 (18 weeks) BE F	-
2007	Godspeed A Decade	BE F34 (6 weeks) BE F	-
2009	Remains	BE F44 (5 weeks) BE F	BE W26 (10 weeks) BE W
2010	This One's for You Hvelreki	BE F3 gold (16 weeks)BE F	BE W7 (13 weeks) BE W
2013	I'm Your Sacrifice Stay Gold	BE F3 platinum (27 weeks)BE F	BE W49 (1 week) BE W
	Plaudite amici comedia finita est Stay Gold	BE F31 (7 weeks) BE F	-
2015	We Can Be Heroes	BE F40 (3 weeks) BE F	-	Original: Heroes by David Bowie
2017	A Dream That Never Stops	BE F14 (12 weeks) BE F	BE W40 (3 weeks) BE W

More singles

• Sweet Instigator (2002)
• You Always Know Your Home (featuring Sarah Bettens, 2002)
• Indian Summer (2004)
• At Sea (2005)
• Weekenders (2006)
• It's in the Air Tonight (2011)
• Air and Fire (2011)
• Out of This World (2011)
• Stand by Me (Le monde nous appartient) (2012)
• 21 Grams Short (2013)
• We Are Incurable Romantics (2014)

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1. ^ Ozark Henry Biography at allmusic.com
2. ↑ Ozark Henry in B There Magazine, 11/2010 ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ZAMU - Vereiniging voor zangers en muzikanten ( Memento of the original of November 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Ultratop 50
5. ↑ Ozark Henry announces the death of Stef Catteeuw on his facebook page
6. ↑ The Essential in the Belgian Ultratop Charts
7. ↑ Ozark Henry at EMI Music ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ EMI announces the album Stay Gold . EMI Music Belgium . Retrieved March 23, 2013.
9. ↑ Stay Gold in the Belgian Ultratop Charts . Retrieved March 23, 2013.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Belgium Flanders Wallonia Netherlands (albums)
11. ↑ Awards for music sales: BE

Web links

• Official website of Ozark Henry