Stan Van Samang
Stan Van Samang (born March 19, 1979 in Wijgmaal , Leuven ) is a Belgian singer and actor.
Life
Stan Van Samang Wijgmaal grew up in the village of Wijgmaal, a sub-municipality of Leuven. After school he studied cabaret at the Herman Teirlinck studio in Antwerp. He then worked as a television actor and voice actor. He became known for the role of police officer Kevin De Kesel in the Flemish soap Wittekerke ( VTM ), which he played from 2001 to 2008. In 2006 he had his first major appearance on the big screen in the film Windkracht 10: Koksijde Rescue , where he played a co-pilot at the side of the Belgian actor Koen De Bouw . The following year he worked again with De Bouw in the thriller Vermist . There he took on the lead role of Inspector Steve Van Hamel, a computer specialist in a five-person task force looking for missing people. Vermist became the pilot of a successful series of the same name that has been running on VT4 since 2008 and has so far comprised six seasons. Van Samang played the same role on the series and is part of the main cast.
In addition to acting, Van Samang developed an early interest in music, learned to play guitar, drums and piano. In 2006 he won the Steracteur Sterartiest , a singing competition for Flemish actors on Eén . He interpreted songs like Rockin 'in the Free World by Neil Young and Creep by Radiohead . Through this success he was able to sign a record deal with EMI . In 2007 his first single Scars came out, which became a number one hit in Belgium (official Ultratop Charts Flanders ) and reached gold status with over 10,000 units sold. He also succeeded in the latter with his debut album Welcome Home , which was released in the same year and placed at number 3 on the Belgian album charts . In addition to Scars , it contained other hit singles such as Poison and Siren . Van Samang was mainly involved as a singer on the rock-pop album, but also as co-writer of three tracks and guitarist on some live pieces. Another songwriter was Beverly Jo Scott , with whom he also worked on later projects. Was produced Welcome Home by Eric Melaerts serving as a juror at Steracteur Sterartiest had noticed Samang.
In January 2009, Van Samang released his second album Take It from Me , which was also produced by Eric Melaerts. This was also quite successful in Belgium and reached number 5 in the Belgian charts. The decoupled singles This Time and I Didn't Know made it into the top 50. In 2010 Van Samang contributed the vocals to Hang On , a pre-release single of Regi Penxten's album REGIstrated 2 , which reached number 10 on the charts. In March 2011 his third album, King In My Head, was released by EMI. This also made it into the Belgian charts (7th place in the Ultratops). The decoupled singles King In My Head , Free and All In My Head , on the other hand, only made it to the Ultratip charts . In July of the same year Samang released a compilation of cover versions of some songs by Dutch musicians such as VanVelzen ( Baby Get Higher ) and Ilse DeLange ( I'm Not So Tough ) under the title Stan Van Vrijdag . These recordings were made during a radio broadcast on Q-Musik, where Van Samang always presented one of the cover songs on Friday (Dutch "Vrijdag"). In 2011 he also recorded the duet Zijn we alleen with the Belgian child star Laura Omloop for their second album Wereld vol kleuren .
In April 2015 the compilation Liefde voor publiek was released on the Dutch label CNR. It includes three cover songs from the VTM program “Liefde voor Muziek” ( Goedemorgend, Goeiendag , Hard Times and Een Ster ) as well as live concert recordings of older hits by Van Samang. The album became a number one hit in Belgium and went double platinum with over 40,000 units sold. With the two live tracks Goeiemorgend, goeiendag and Een ster , the latter a Dutch cover of Nikolaus Presnik's hit song Ein Stern (... that bears your name) , Van Samang was able to place himself at number 1 on the Belgian singles charts.
In November he released a cover version of the coldplay song Fix You with Lisa Castelli as a charity campaign for the Rode neuzen dag and thus reached number 4.
Filmography
- 2000–2008: Wittekerke (TV series)
- 2003: Flikken (TV series)
- 2003: Sedes & Belli (TV series)
- 2004: Rupel (TV series)
- 2005: Offside for Gilles
- 2006: Windkracht 10: Koksijde Rescue
- 2006: Willy's en marjetten (TV series)
- 2007: missing
- 2008: Witse (TV series)
- 2008–2015: Vermist (TV series)
- 2009–2010: David (TV series)
- 2010: Zone stad (TV series)
- 2010: Pieter Aspe - Murder in Bruges (TV series)
- 2010–2011: Amika (TV series)
- 2011: Code 37 (TV series)
- 2013: Vanthilt on Tour (TV series)
- 2013: Zuidflank (TV series)
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 BE F
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| 2007 | Welcome home parlophone , Warner |
BE F3  (42 weeks)BE F |
First published: November 23, 2007
Sales: + 10,000 |
| 2009 | Take It from Me TEG, EMI |
BE F5 (14 weeks) BE F |
First published: January 23, 2009
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| 2011 | King in My Head Live Entertainment, EMI |
BE F7 (16 weeks) BE F |
First published: March 11, 2011
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| Stan Van Vrijdag Live Entertainment, EMI |
BE F46 (3 weeks) BE F |
First published: July 1, 2011
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| 2015 | Liefde voor publiek Live Entertainment, CNR |
BE F1  × 5
(60 weeks)BE F |
First published: April 27, 2015
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2016 | Stan Van Samang Live Entertainment, Universal |
BE F1 (47 weeks)BE F |
First published: November 4th, 2016
Sales: + 20,000 |
| 2017 | 10 Live Entertainment, Universal |
BE F3 (32 weeks)BE F |
First published: November 24, 2017
Sales: + 10,000 |
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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BE F
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| 2007 | Scars Welcome Home |
BE F1 (22 weeks)BE F |
First published: June 8, 2007
Sales: + 10,000 |
| Poison Welcome Home |
BE F11 (13 weeks) BE F |
First published: October 26, 2007
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| 2008 | Siren Welcome Home |
BE F16 (9 weeks) BE F |
First published: February 1, 2008
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| This Time Take It from Me |
BE F43 (2 weeks) BE F |
First published: October 24, 2008
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| 2009 | I Didn't Know Take It from Me |
BE F38 (3 weeks) BE F |
First published: January 12, 2009
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| 2010 | Hang On single track |
BE F10 (9 weeks) BE F |
First publication: June 7, 2010
with Regi |
| 2014 | Junebug Liefde voor publiek |
BE F8 (9 weeks) BE F |
First published: June 9, 2014
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| A Simple Life Liefde voor publiek |
BE F9 (22 weeks)BE F |
First published: December 8th, 2014
Sales: + 10,000 |
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| 2015 | Goeiemorgend, goeiendag (Live) Liefde voor publiek |
BE F1 (22 weeks)BE F |
First published: March 30th, 2015
Sales: + 10,000 |
| Hard Times (Live) Liefde voor publiek |
BE F12 (6 weeks) BE F |
First published: April 6, 2015
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| Alive (Live) Liefde voor publiek |
BE F34 (2 weeks) BE F |
First published: April 13, 2015
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| I Am (Live) Liefde voor publiek |
BE F26 (3 weeks) BE F |
First published: April 20, 2015
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| Een ster (Live) Liefde voor publiek |
BE F1 (39 weeks)BE F |
First published: April 27, 2015
Sales: + 10,000 |
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| No Surrender (Live) Liefde voor publiek |
BE F10 (2 weeks) BE F |
First published: May 4, 2015
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| Summerbreeze 10 |
BE F16 (11 weeks) BE F |
First published: June 22, 2015
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| Fix You Liefde voor publiek |
BE F4 (7 weeks) BE F |
First published: November 6, 2015
feat. Lisa; Original: Coldplay |
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| 2016 | Candy Stan Van Samang |
BE F16 (15 weeks) BE F |
First published: September 30, 2016
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| Little Moon Rises Stan Van Samang |
BE F27 (6 weeks) BE F |
First published: December 5th, 2016
feat. Sarah Bettens |
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| 2017 | The Load Stan Van Samang |
BE F49 (1 week) BE F |
First published: April 3, 2017
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| Hemel voor ons twee 10 |
BE F31 (10 weeks) BE F |
First published: October 13, 2017
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| 2020 | River of Life single track |
BE F27 (... weeks) BE F |
First published: March 13, 2020
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More singles
- 2007: Welcome Home
- 2010: Is It Over You (Owen feat.Stan Van Samang)
- 2011: King In My Head
- 2011: Free
- 2011: Stand My Ground
- 2011: Everything is running
- 2011: All In My Head
- 2011: Zijn we alleen (with Laura Omloop )
- 2012: One For The Road
- 2012: De eerste sneeuw
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region |
gold |
platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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 Belgium (BEA)
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6 × gold6th
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6 × platinum6th
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180,000 | ultratop.be |
| All in all |
6 × gold6th
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6 × platinum6th
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Web links
- Homepage of Stan Van Samang
- Stan Van Samang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stan Van Samang at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Performer by Vermist ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2014 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.
- ↑ Report on Samangs victory at Steracteur Sterartiest in Nieuwsblad
- ↑ Gold and platinum certificates at ultratop.be.
- ↑ Stan Van Samang's biography at Allmusic
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: Belgium (Flanders)
- ^ Report on the collaboration with Laura Omloop in the Nieuwsblad
- ^ Announcement about double platinum for Liefde voor publiek on showbizzsite.be
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Samang, Stan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian singer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wijgmaal , lions |