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- Birth nameFrancis Jean Deprijck
- Lou De Prijck was born on January 11, 1946 in Lessines, Belgium. He was an actor and composer, known for Barb Wire (1996), Ruby Sparks (2012) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He died on September 19, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.
- As a singer, he's been the lead of a popular Belgian band called "Lou and the Hollywood bananas" (mostly active from 1978 to 1987).
- Lou Deprijck was a Belgian singer and record producer.
- He found success with 'Two Man Sound', a Latin-pop outfit formed with Sylvain Vanholme of the Wallace Collection and Yvan Lacomblez. 'Two Man Sound' sold over a million copies of their 1975 single "Charlie Brown" while the album Disco Samba, with the eponymous song, had sales of around 1.4 million copies in Latin America.
- He was a major figure in the Belgian pop scene of the 1970s and 1980s, with more than 20 million copies of his compositions sold worldwide, making him one of the best selling Belgian artists.
- Deprijck is best known for having co-written with Yves Lacomblez, and for having de facto sung, the Plastic Bertrand 1978 song "Ça plane pour moi".
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