Bent Van Looy

Bent Van Looy (born 3 May 1976) is a Belgian-Flemish musician, singer and songwriter. He is the frontman and singer for Das Pop, the Belgian band he founded in Ghent in 1994 together with schoolfriends Reinhard Vanbergen, Niek Meul and Lieven Moors. He is also the drummer of Soulwax, a project of the Dewaele brothers.[1]

Bent Van Looy
Bent Van Looy performing at the Booch Festival
Background information
Born (1976-05-03) 3 May 1976
Ghent, Belgium
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer, drummer, MC
Years active1994 - present
LabelsPIAS, Capitol, EMI
Associated actsDas Pop
Websitewww.bentvanlooy.com
Bent Van Looy with DasPop in 2007

In Das Pop
Main article: Das Pop

Bent Van Looy's band Das Pop was initially called Things to Come, but the band later changed its name to Das Pop. The band has released four albums: I ♥ (2000), The Human Thing (2003), Das Pop (2009) and The Game (2011).

Solo

Bent van Looy became drummer for Soulwax and he toured as MC throughout Europe along concert halls like Ethias Arena, Brixton Academy, Telefonica Open de Madrid, Palacio da bolsa and many others with Soulwaxmas, the Christmas party organised by Soulwax

In 2013, Bent Van Looy released his first solo album Round the Bend, produced in Los Angeles by Jason Falkner. Director Dimitri van Zeebroeck also shot a documentary with similar title to be distributed with the album.

Van Looy has been also active in reality television series appearing in De Slimste Mens ter Wereld in 2009-2010 finishing third losing to winner Linda De Win and runner-up Peter Vandermeersch.

In 2008 he took part in exhibition organized by Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels known as Bozar under the title "It's not only Rock 'n' Roll baby" as one of twenty artists who expressed themselves with both music and art.[2]

In 2010 he had his own Sunday afternoon program on Studio Brussel: Single Safari. He also designed clothing for the French fashion house Le Mont Saint Michel. Since 2012 he has his own clothing line on the market, The Jante Law and in 2012, designed the label of a French wine named 'Cuvée B.V.L.

Van Looy has been also active in reality television series appearing in De Slimste Mens ter Wereld in 2009-2010 finishing third losing to winner Linda De Win and runner-up Peter Vandermeersch.

He was also coach for the third season of the music competition The Voice van Vlaanderen. The season was broadcast from 7 February 2014 to 23 May 2014 on the vtm television network. Bent Van Looy became the winning coach with his contestant Tom De Man carrying the title. He returned in season 4 (2016), but he was replaced by musician Alex Callier in season 5.

Discography

(For discography with Das Pop, see discography on that page)

Albums
Year Album Peak positions Notes
BEL
(Fl)
[3]
2013 Round the Bend 7 Track listing
  1. "Flowers and Balloons" (3:28)
  2. "The Hard Part" (4:17)
  3. "I Will Show You" (3:11)
  4. "Round the Bend" (2:46)
  5. "Friendly With the Fleas" (3:37)
  6. "Words" (2:45)
  7. "Home" (4:09)
  8. "Shoulders" (3:11)
  9. "Shadow of a Man" (3:16)
  10. "Young Man" (3:27)
  11. "First Boy From the Right" (3:46)
  12. "Why I'm Leaving" (4:57)
2016 Pyjama Days 1
2018 Yours Truly 73

Singles
Year Single Peak positions Albums
BEL
(Fl)
Ultratop
[3]		 BEL
(Fl)
Ultratip
[3]
2013 "Shadow of a Man" — 2 Round the Bend
"Flowers and Balloons" — 9
2014 "Words" — 23
2016 "My Escape" 50 — Pyjama Days
"Downtown Train" — 9
2017 "Wat een leven"
(with VRT Big Band)		 — 13
2018 "The Open Road" — 34

References
  1. HLN: Bent Van Looy wordt drummer bij Soulwax (in Dutch)
  2. Bozar.be: IT'S NOT ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL, BABY! A Story of Art and Music Archived August 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
  3. "Jasper Steverlinck discography". ultratop.be/nl. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
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