- 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".
- Lou Deprijck had been together with his 26-year-old girlfriend Vanessa, whom he planned to marry, for about a year.
- In Pattaya , Thailand, he ran a chip shop called "Frietkot" , and released several records in Thai.
- He leaves behind one daughter, but has made it clear in the past that he had unrecognized children.
- His aliases as an artist are too numerous to count. Some of his pseudonyms were: Pop, Billy Belushi, Dario Ramirez, J.P.Hawks, B.Buster, Bass Master I, Gene Steinbecket, Lee Kane, Marylin Mansfield ...
- Life in Pattaya inspired him to rewrite the text of his most famous song "Kingston, Kingston" into "Pattaya, Pattaya", which soon became the unofficial hymn of Pattaya.
- In 1984, calling himself Lou Van Houten, Deprijck released the album Collures with Boris Bergman under the pseudonym Les Epatants.
- Deprijck also had a major 1978 solo success in France and Belgium with ska/reggae song "Kingston, Kingston", under the moniker Lou & The Hollywood Bananas.
- He lost two wives. One to cancer and another in a house fire.
- In 2006, a Belgian appeal court ruled that Plastic Bertrand was the "legal performer" of the classic track "Ça plane pour moi", but the ruling was overturned in 2010.
- Lou Deprijck composes, produces and sings the hit "Ça plane pour moi" , whose singing is built on a single note (with the exception of a short vocalization in the chorus) to parody certain punk songs . For the occasion, he invents a virtual character, Plastic Bertrand. The success of the piece forced him to embody this character; For this he called on Roger Marie François Jouret , who then enjoyed a lasting career under this pseudonym.
- He also appeared on the MR-Ensemble ( French Liberal Party) list in Lessines during the 2012 municipal elections and was municipal councilor of the city until 2021.
- In the English-speaking world, Deprijck's best known hit was "Ça plane pour moi", which he recorded and sang for Plastic Bertrand, who remains generally credited for the song (and was upheld legally in 2006 as being entitled to be called its artist). In fact, Deprijck was also the "voice" of Plastic Bertrand's first four albums.
- His first group Pop' Liberty 6 had a complete flop in 1967 with "Je Suis Pop Et Tout À Fait Dingue". The single sold only 200 copies.
- His biography, "Ça plane pour moi" (= Everything's awesome for me) was published in 2008.
- In 1998, he participated in the single "Le bal des gueux "by Alec Mansion for the benefit of 'Operation Thermos' , which distributed meals for the homeless in train stations. This song is performed by thirty-eight artists and personalities including Toots Thielemans , Stéphane Steeman , Marylène Bergmann , Armelle , Jacques Bredael , Alec Mansion , Muriel Dacq , the Taloche brothers , Morgane , Nathalie Pâque , Frédéric Etherlinck, Richard Ruben , Christian Vidal ,Marc Herman , Jeff Bodart , Jean-Luc Fonck , Benny B and Daddy K.
- Deprijck resided largely near Pattaya, Thailand. The story of his life in Thailand was shown in the VTM TV channel documentary Vlamingen in Pattaya (Flemings in Pattaya) as part of the Belgian news program Telefacts.
- In 2016, on the occasion of the Euro football tournament in France, he released "Come on Belgium", to support the Red Devils. The single was recorded together with Miss Belgium 2015: Annelies Törös.
- The singer gave one of his last concerts in July 2022, during the National Ball in Brussels.
- In 1984, under the pseudonym "Vanhouten", he produced the album Collures in duet with Boris Bergman from which the 45 rpm "Hold-up Sentimental / Fille du rivière 5" was taken .
- In the 1980s, Deprijck was also the creative force behind the success of Viktor Lazlo, born Sonia Dronier, whom he met at Le Mirano nightclub in Brussels. She initially did backing vocals for Lou & the Hollywood Bananas before taking the name Viktor Lazlo from a character in the 1942 film Casablanca at Deprijck's suggestion.
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