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Stats Webdesign by Jurgen Van Hoof aka ZoB, www.zobweb.be. Special thanks to Tim Jungbluth. LaGazz (belgian music collective) a new exciting trip through the 21st Century. La Gazz formed in the spring of 2005 amongst the clubs in Antwerp - Belgium. At first, the general idea was to jam on some dj-beats, in order to spice up the records and entertain the crowd with live music... Pretty soon the musicians (Niels, Bart and Hans) started to notice there was a lot of chemistry emerging from the fact that they all had different roots and training. To make the whole thing work, they still needed a dj that could function as a musician. Dj Grammy joined the band in May 2005 and La Gazz was born. After doing some gigs in Belgium, La Gazz had the opportunity to do a show in France at the snowmadness event, wich was a huge succes and therefore a great turning point for LaGazz. A bit later, La Gazz met Miss Autumn Leaves at the Blue Mondays festival in Limburg. Astonished by the charismatic perfomance and amazing voice, the group asked her to team up with La Gazz. Nowadays, La Gazz are performing all over the country. They are also working on their first single which is meant to be released early summer 2006. Lagazz, unique, stylish, sexy, cool! References. (business-parties / clubs / events) - DHL - HALIFAX - JT-international - Luminus - Ethias - Showbizzkalender 2004 / 2005 - Unizo - Electrabel - Sp-a - Party Rental Levi - KBC - Expo Brussels (Different functions) - Audi Equestrian Masters - Forest National Proximus on stage - Halls of Schaarbeek - Germinal Beerschot (semi-final and final Belgian Cupfinal) - Planet Reef and Miss Reef 2005 - 4x4 Cross Overpelt - La Rocca (Papaya) - Club Industria (new years eve) - Kaai del Mar (hangar 26) - Tempel (Destelbergen) - Blue Monday - Premiere film goal (Koning Boudewijnstadion) - Horeca-event 2004 Redbull stand - Belgian championship snowmadness (Austria / France) Bart Mertens started playing music at a very young age, he first studied classical music at the Brussels kunsthumaniora and after that at the royal Brussels conservatory by David Linx. Since 1995 he plays in a variety of groups. He works for a while as a composer for shortfilms at passage 44 and was resposible for some jingels on radiostations and clothing store commercials. He was lead vocalist of Chameleon, a soul, funk, jazzband who by recording at synsoundstudios in Brussels got to play numerous gigs such as concert noble and marktrock Leuven. After that he did some studio work for the flemish hiphopformation ABN and played keys with R and B lady Leki for a little while. Nowadays, Bart is the leader of the go trio, a jazztrio formed with doublebassplayer Hendrik Vanattenhoven and the dutch guitarplayer Guy Nikkels. In 2002 he started teaching and right now, he is still working different styles of music such as Feast: a triphop/lounge formation. It is with this project they made music for the winning documentary at the worldwide filmfestival for nature films. June 2005 found bart infliltrating the dance scene with projects such as Verheyen en Vanvaeck feat. Jessy and La Gazz, but also a lot of touring and television shows with DHT feat. Edmee and Postpony. Ebby Drenthe: Autumn Leaves is an Afro-Dutch mezzo alto singer, with a warm and beautiful voice. She sings from Gospel to Dance Music. (Soul, blues, Jazz, Gospel, Dance. etc.) Autumn Leaves was born on the 28th of October in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: her parents came from the Caribbean. Her parents are both musical, her mother is a singer and piano player and her father is an all round musician, so she grew up with lots of musical influences. Autumn leaves is the third of nine children and all are very gifted with musical talents. At the age of 12 she developed her singing and writing skills and yes... she was talented! She started to write her own songs. A girl who loved to write, making beatiful poems and loved to draw. Creating a soul which was devoted and committed to God with an enormous open heart for people. That is why the first of more tahn a hundred songs she wrote are about the love of Jesus Gods grace. Singing at several churches, weddings, birthday parties or concerts: where ever she sang she was asked for another performance. After singing Gospel music for years she wanted to enlarge her environment so she started singing backing vocals for popular artist like Gloria Estefan, Debby Sledge singing at special weddings like the one of Ruud Gullit, Paul Haarhuis, Alex Blanchard. After singing in the seculair music scene she started to write regular music too. With success because in 2001 she made her first cd-single Say that you love me. In Belgium she has featured her second single Don not walk away from me with Systematic Parts by Universal Belgium/ AGM Publishing . She also featured cd-single Ready to live by Route 66, No Name Records in Belgium, and the This is my world by Longos Lounge. Philip Grammen: Dj Grammy was born on April 12th 1981 and he got interested in music at a very young age. In 1997 he started buying his first records and that same year he also got the opportunity to start as a local dj in a cafe called de Bink (Sint-Truiden). After being an allround deejay for 4 years, he decided to make a turn and walk his own path in the house scene. In 2001 he became resident in X-Line (Lummen) where he has been active for 6 months. After this he performed at several parties, clubs (Katsu, Outline, Silo, Rumba) and cafes. In 2003 he got a new residency at a new club, Bar.a.Bar (Sint-Truiden). He performed here every saturday and he knew exactly how to entertain the crowd. Due to personal reasons and with a lot of pain in his heart, he had to leave Bar.a.Bar in 2004. That same year he became resident at 2 other clubs, on Fridays he played at Cube (Bilzen) and on Saturdays at Millers Club (Diest). In both clubs he has been active for more than 6 months. Frequently he is guest in clubs and parties like De Verleiding (Heerlen), Nightlife (Maastricht), Mondial (Beek), Angels and Devils (Valkenburg) and Signs (Maastricht). At the end of 2004 he got the chance to play at Club Arena (Lichtaart) where he was active for a few months. Since March 2005 there have been lots of changes for dj Grammy. He became a resident DJ at The Mixx (Hasselt). He is active twice a month at the biosphere where he works together with the other residents Peter Luts and Ce Ce M. Being a resident in The Mixx gave him the opportunity to join the team of A and S W64. In April 2005 Dj Grammy joined the live Band LA GAZZ. As a part of La Gazz, Dj Grammy joined the Club Industria-team on the cityparade and since then started as a resident dj every third Saturday of the month on their Secrets party. Hans Forceville: Hans holds his musical degree from the academy in Merksem. A very young Hans Forceville gained interest for music, influenced by father and grandfather, who were both musicians. At the age of 16, Hans started performing with several well-known Djs, such as Carl Cox, Marco Bailey and Cor Fijneman. Thereafter, he did a lot of gigs in Ibiza where he lived for a few years and played the hottest clubs on the island, amongst others: Pasha, Amnesia and Privelege. He also played in the Las Vegas hotel Luxor and the Miami club Madonna, along with many djs. Today, besides being a proud father of two wonderful daughters Dante and Jazz, he works as a free-lance percussionplayer, and he owns his Hanson production studio. Very often, Hans does a lot of guest-appearences in the club circuit. Hans shows himself a true entertainer who's known to make the audience go totally bazurk! Niels Scheijvens: The first one of two children, Niels displayed a talent for music from a very young age. 1985 sees Niels starting to persue his career in music by playing in the conservatory big band as well as many cover bands. It is with this Glen Miller big band that he starts doing gigs in Holland and Germany. As time goes by Niels gets to be soloist for these projects. He even gets to tour the States where they did Houston, NY, Atlanta and Las Vegas. Niels has a very distinctive and clear tone on his instrument, and blended many influences into a personal style, a marked technique and a total musical engagement with individual phrased melodies. Right now he has moved with his girl Magali to Antwerp where he is still doing a few Belgian and Dutch coverbands. Manager: Gary Fernandes Logistic: Nils De Laeter.