Lou Bandy

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Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (19 April 1890 - 24 June 1959) better known under his pseudonym Lou Bandy was a Dutch singer and conferencier who was one of the most popular artists in the Netherlands, between both world wars. Among his most famous songs are: Zoek de zon op (Look for the sun), Schep vreugde in het leven (Put joy in life) and Louise zit niet op je nagels te bijten (Louise, don't bite your nails).

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Bandy, raised in a working-class family in the Hague, worked as a piccolo, houseservant, streetsinger and as a conscriptionist with the navy before he started a serious carrier in varierty in 1915. At first he performed together with his brother Willy under the name The Bandy Brothers (Bandy being an Anglicisation of his last name Dieben with the syllables reversed.) Soon is became apparent that the characters of the brothers were too different in order to work together; in contrast with Willy, Lou was known as a difficult person.