Lou Bandy
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Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (The Hague
19 April 1890 – Zandvoort
24 June 1959), better known under his pseudonym
Lou Bandy, was a Dutch
singer and conferencier
who was one of the most popular artists in the Netherlands, between both world wars. Among his most famous songs are: Zoek de zon op (Look for the sun), Schep vreugde in het leven (Put joy in life) and Louise zit niet op je nagels te bijten (Louise, don't bite your nails).
, worked as a piccolo, houseservant, streetsinger and as a conscriptionist with the navy before he started a serious career in variety in 1915. At first he performed together with his brother Willy under the name The Bandy Brothers (Bandy being an Anglicisation of his last name Dieben with the syllables reversed.) Soon ts became apparent that the characters of the brothers were too different in order to work together; in contrast with Willy, Lou was known as a difficult person.
Lou continued under the name Lou Bandy. In 1921 he married the pianist Eugenie Küch, a German officer's daughter who would have a great impact on his career: she taught him decent social skills, taught him the importance of speaking proper Dutch, and helped him get his first lucrative contracts. With her support, the young man from the Hague found himself within a few years working with the top artists and theater impressarios.
Bandy was known by the public as a singer of happy lyrics, but to those who knew him better, he had a less upbeat image.
he married also with the much younger Sinia Franke in 1948 and in 1952 with the 19 years old girl Carla van den Hurk. He divorced with Carla in 1958 and was getting lonely.
When he was not popular anymore and he became very lonely he committed suicide in his Zandvoort apartment close to the sea.
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The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
19 April 1890 – Zandvoort
Zandvoort
Zandvoort is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.Zandvoort is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach, bordered by coastal dunes...
24 June 1959), better known under his pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Lou Bandy, was a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
singer and conferencier
Conferencier
Conférencier is the proper term for the master of ceremonies appearing in European cabaret. The term appeared in the 1920s and became synonymous with these persona who not only emceed cabarets, but were well known for their political and social commentary...
who was one of the most popular artists in the Netherlands, between both world wars. Among his most famous songs are: Zoek de zon op (Look for the sun), Schep vreugde in het leven (Put joy in life) and Louise zit niet op je nagels te bijten (Louise, don't bite your nails).
Roots
Bandy, raised in a working-class family in the HagueThe Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, worked as a piccolo, houseservant, streetsinger and as a conscriptionist with the navy before he started a serious career in variety in 1915. At first he performed together with his brother Willy under the name The Bandy Brothers (Bandy being an Anglicisation of his last name Dieben with the syllables reversed.) Soon ts became apparent that the characters of the brothers were too different in order to work together; in contrast with Willy, Lou was known as a difficult person.
Lou continued under the name Lou Bandy. In 1921 he married the pianist Eugenie Küch, a German officer's daughter who would have a great impact on his career: she taught him decent social skills, taught him the importance of speaking proper Dutch, and helped him get his first lucrative contracts. With her support, the young man from the Hague found himself within a few years working with the top artists and theater impressarios.
Bandy was known by the public as a singer of happy lyrics, but to those who knew him better, he had a less upbeat image.
he married also with the much younger Sinia Franke in 1948 and in 1952 with the 19 years old girl Carla van den Hurk. He divorced with Carla in 1958 and was getting lonely.
When he was not popular anymore and he became very lonely he committed suicide in his Zandvoort apartment close to the sea.
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