ArtistInfo

Bobbejaan Schoepen

voc, h, acg, 1925-2010 BE, Boom, Belgium
Singer / Musician / Songwriter of Pop and World
A.k.a. Modest Hyppoliet Joanna Schoepen Modest Schoepen

Bobbejaan Schoepen (a pseudonym of Modest Schoepen) (16 May 1925 – 17 May 2010) was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music. Schoepen was a versatile entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park, Bobbejaanland. His musical career flourished from 1948 until the first half of the 1970s. He sold more than five million copies from his repertoire of 482 songs, which extended from Twang, cabaret, instrumental film music, chansons, country, to folk and vocal music. Born in Boom, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, he worked his way up from a working-class environment to become one of the 200 richest people in Belgium.

Instruments

• Vocals
• Harmonica
• Acoustic guitar

Genres

• Pop
• World
• Folk