MusicLuka Cruysberghs (19) was told last week that she has to leave Hooverphonic to make way for Geike Arnaert. That means that she is not allowed to go to the Eurovision Song Contest and will have to develop a solo career from now on. “It was a bit of a shock, but I have now been able to give it a place.”
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She got the news through a Zoom meeting, because a real meeting was not possible. “It was a shock, the past days have been quite overwhelming,” she told MNM. “But I do understand. My parents are also sorry, but they are happy that I am going my own way. I will write songs with as many people as possible, so that we have a choice. I don’t know yet how it will sound, but I want to discover my own style. ”
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Not easy
Raymond and I and our manager brought her the bad news. Not easy, of course. And Luka really didn’t like it either. What would you be like? ”, Says Alex Callier in HUMO. Luka had also recently recorded a new album with the band. “It ends up in our vault. Maybe we’ll recover a few songs for our next record with Geike, maybe not. We might even release it after all, but with Geike singing the songs. My wife will be happy: she’s pissed off that that record never saw the light of day, because she thinks it’s fantastic. ”
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“In any case, I like to have a lot of material, from which you can choose right away. Sometimes songs stay in the drawer for years before I decide to use them. For example, ‘Anger Never Dies’ was recorded with Geike, but we didn’t use it at the time because it didn’t fit the record we were working on, ‘The President of the LSD Golf Club’. And ‘Stranger’ was originally written for ‘No More Sweet Music’, but we ended up building ‘The President of the LSD Golf Club’ completely around that song because we thought it was so strong.
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“But as for Luka … Look, she’s young and talented, and she’s got character. If she does it right, and we will certainly help her with that, she can still go far. Don’t forget that she has been able to gain stage experience for three years and see how a band works. And yes, of course she was disappointed, but at the same time she understood that Geike is inherently connected to Hooverphonic. We built everything together with Geike, didn’t we? ”
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