Ludo Vandeau

Ludo Vandeau was born at Hamme, in Flanders, between the rivers Durme and Schelde. His mother lived in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, for the greater part of her youth. Vandeau soon picked up the guitar and discovered the possibilities of his voice. He sang covers here and there. It was not until he was at university that he started taking part in song contests and small-scale performances. In this period he began to write his first songs. In the meantime he allowed himself to be influenced by new kinds and genres of music.(…). From 1997 to April 2004 he was the voice of Ambrozijn (city-folk music). With Olla Vogala (world music) he was one of two vocalists. He was guest-singer by the Flemish group Lais and by the French singer-songwriter Gabriel Yacoub (Fr). Above all, after so many CD’s, Vandeau wants to make, to sing, to record songs of his own. With his group Bodixel he explores French and Spanish chanson. … Since 2010 Vandeau has gathered old and new musicians around himself. A period of preparing a new CD dawns. Writing, deleting, re-writing, pre-recordings, new cooperations, endless hours in the car, little concerts, school concerts, tryouts and studio work. In 2016 his first solo-cd was released: Au Gré du Charme (prod. Ad Cominotto and Dirk Lekenne. In 2017 his second solo-cd appears: Au Lendemain des Belles Choses (prod. Rick Allison).