He was the musical brain behind Good Shape, Enzo and driving force of Flemish music: producer Adriaan van Landschoot unexpectedly died on 77th birthday (inland)
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Music producer and businessman Adriaan van Landschoot died unexpectedly on his 77th birthday. He became known as manager of Flemish music artists such as Petra, Good Shape and Enzo. « Yesterday we were planning what we were going to do for his birthday, » says his son Jason van Landschoot.
The music producer and businessman died unexpectedly on his 77th birthday. Adriaan van Landschoot ended up in the water on Easter Monday in the early morning, after which no help could no longer benefit. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease two years ago. In January of this year he came out with that himself.
Van Landschoot got the taste for music early. « In his younger years he had his own band » The Mirky’s, « says his son Jason. « In it he played the guitar himself and he really got the taste for music. » Van Landschoot was born in Adegem on April 21 in 1948, where he also built ‘The White House’ by Adegem in 1976. It would remain his base until the 1990s. In recent years he lived with his wife in Ghent.
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Van Landschoot became known as producer and manager of Flemish artists, such as Petra de Steur, Enzo and Good Shape. In 1977 he sent the Belgian-Dutch group Dream Express to the Eurovision Song Contest in London. The group managed to get a seventh place there. He also founded his own clothing boutique, with branches in different cities.
The band Good Shape. – © Good Shape
Flemish artists
The East Flemish was a fierce champion for Flemish music. In 1973 he stamped a pirate channel from the ground. Radio Atlantis, as it was called, broadcast from a ship in Oostburg in the Netherlands. In 1991 he invaded the buildings of the then Belgian radio and television broadcaster (BRT), during the live broadcast of ‘Het Journaal’. He unfolded a banner there, on which ‘Vlaams in the Top 30’ was read. He thus protested against the fact that the public broadcaster barely paid attention to Flemish artists.
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« My father was known as someone you were allowed to ask everything and who was always willing to help people, » says Jason. « That is how everyone in his area will continue to remember him. »
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