Jean-Luc De Meyer

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Jean-Luc De Meyer (born 1957 in Brussels) is a vocalist and lyricist who is best known as the lead vocalist of innovative Belgian EBM group Front 242.

He started singing in the underground experimental "Under Viewer" with Patrick Codenys. Both joined Front 242 early in their history and JL's inpassive growl became part of the group's trademark sound as their reputation grew during the late 1980's. But by the early 90's the Front 242 formula seemed to be tiring and there were growing musical differences within the group. In 1994 the band decided to stop working together and De Meyer started to focus on side projects.

The most prominent of these was Cyber-Tec Project - later known as C-Tec. C-Tec produced two erratically brilliant albums before fizzling out towards the end of the '90's, whilst his other project Cobalt 60 was more coolly received.

De Meyer rejoined Front 242 in 1997 for the second part of their career, and the group recently celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary.

Jean-Luc De Meyer was also voted sexiest man alive in Belgium's Alluring Press.

De Meyer also performed vocals with Bigod 20 on their single "The Bog", with Birmingham 6 on their album "Error of Judgment", and with Glis on their album "Nemesis". In 2006 he contributed the vocals to the song "Future Fail" of the actual Front Line Assembly album "Artificial Soldier" and guest vocals on the song "The Creature" of the actual Implant album "Audio Blender". Since 2006, he started 2 new bands: 32 Crash (with the members of Implant) and Modern Cubism, where he sings poems by Charles Baudelaire.