History of Music in Belgium

The fifties and sixties saw the only occasional exception of the original music from the Belgium popping up, which include Ferre Gringnard, the Cousins, the Peebbles, Wallace Collection, and heck also even Soeur Sourire and Rocco Granata. Over the decades there was already a lot of music making that was going on, but the main artists did adaptions of the songs that were well-known abroad Jacques Brel that has the total different story of the course.

 

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The seventies saw a big number of Flemish traditional singers that are coming out, which show it that it is possible to sing in their mother tongue for example Johan Verminnen, Raymond Van Het Groenewound and Kris Debruyne. There is also a change of the music scene with a new genre popping up for example hard- rock with Irish Coffee, Country with Pendulum, Disco with Two man sound, blues with Roland and Tjens Couter, symphonic rock with machiavel.

After the punk wave of the middle of the seventies that has brought us the kids and also one of the best or worst punk singles by the Plastic Bertrand, there was a problem of energy and fresh new brands: first is an underground movement for example de Brassers, Siglo XX, Front 242, Neon Judgement, Red Zebra, then also with the wide request in the so called Belpop generation for example the Machines, T.C Matic, de Kreuners, Luna Twist, Allez Allez, Lavvi Ebbel, Arbeid Adelt, Jo Lemaire.

After the first disappointment of those bands in the middle of the eighties, Belgium is too small, a new generation came out in the stage with a more mature and somewhat more commercial request for example is the different orchestras of the New Beat dance craze, Vaya Con Dios, Arno, Clouseau, Pop Gun, Soulsister, Technotronic, Won Ton Ton. These bands managed and get the serious with the foothold abroad.

In the period of the nineties, this problem got even more seen with the emergence of the new and the internationally request artists such as Deus, Zita Swoon, K’s Choice, Axelle Red, Hoover, 2 Unlimited, Metal Molly, Channel Zero, Wizards of Ooze, Evil Superstars, Zap Mama, An Pierle. There are also the new waves of Flemish artists who have taken the rock music in the Dutch to a new level for example Noordkaap, De Mens, and Gorki. The average of the quality of the music produced in Belgium is still definitely going up.