Lou Deprijck

Lou Deprijck (French pronunciation: ​[lu dəpʁɛk]) is a Belgian singer and music producer born in 1946 in Lessines, Wallonia. 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. He is best known for the Plastic Bertrand song Ça plane pour moi.

His first group Liberty 6 had a complete flop in 1969 with Je suis pop. However he later found success with Two Man Sound, a Latin-pop outfit formed with Sylvain Vanholme of the Wallace Collection. Two Man Sound sold over a million copies of their 1975 single Charlie Brown while the album Disco Samba had sales of around 1.4 million copies in Latin America.

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.

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 three albums. In 2006, a Belgian appeal court ruled that Bertrand was the "legal performer" of the classic track. But the ruling was overturned in 2010.

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 Casablanca at Deprijck's suggestion. He produced the self-titled album Viktor Lazlo in 1987 for her, as well as the album Hot & Soul in 1989.

In 1984, calling himself Lou Van Houtem, Deprijck released the album Collures with Boris Bergman under the pseudonym Les Epatants.

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