Bobbejaan Schoepen Net Worth

Bobbejaan Schoepen Net Worth is
$11 Million

Bobbejaan Schoepen Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

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.Schoepen married Dutch former opera singer and photographer's model Josephina (Josée) Jongen on 18 May 1961. They have five children: Robert ("Bob Jr.", 1962), Myriam (1963), Jacky (1964), Peggy (1968), and Tom (1970). His son Tom became his manager in Belgium.

Date Of BirthMay 16, 1925
Died2010-05-17
Place Of BirthBoom, Flanders, Belgium
ProfessionActor, Soundtrack
Star SignTaurus
#Fact
1He was asked to meet The Rolling Stones at the airport in Zaventem for their first tour of Belgium, but he refused because he had received word of their 'unbearable behavior'.
2Bobbejaan could be characterized as a "total performer" and entrepreneur: he was a singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, a former actor and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park, Bobbejaanland.
3He lost his virtuoso whistling ability due to a surgical intervention, and in 1986 he underwent a serious heart operation.
4He was sent to prison twice during wartime. He was forced to go work in Germany. As an alternative he chose to sing for the Flemish workers doing compulsory labor. For this he was locked up for three months in the Dossin barracks in Mechelen from October, 1944, without a hearing or a trial.
5He was a singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, a former actor and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park, Bobbejaanland.
6His musical career flourished from 1948 to the first half of the 1970s. He sold more than five million copies from his repertoire of nearly 600 songs, which extended from Twang, cabaret, instrumental film music, chansons, country, to folk and vocal music.
7He worked his way up from a working-class environment to become one of the 200 richest people in Belgium.
8Schoepen toured in at least twenty different countries, together with artists such as Josephine Baker, Caterina Valente, (once) Gilbert Bécaud, and Toots Thielemans (who was a guitarist in his band in 1951). He was one of the first Europeans (not including Great Britain) to have appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, one of the most important centers of country music in the US. In 1953 he played there three times with Roy Acuff (1903-1992). There's also knowledge of one performance with the country singer Red Foley (1910-1968) in Springfield, Missouri. The American country singer, Tex Williams, founder of swing country, would later release a cover of his "Fire and Blisters" in the US (1974).
9In 1945, Schoepen chose Bobbejaan as his artist's name (it means baboon in Afrikaans), after the song "Bobbejaan klim die berg!" ("Bobbejaan Climb That Mountain!").
10In 1948, the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt accompanied the first musical productions of Bobbejaan Schoepen.
11In 1958 Bobbejaan Schoepen bought Zorro's horse from the old television series from revolver-acrobat Casey Tibbs, but the horse stepped on an exposed electricity cable and passed away.
12In July 2008 he was inducted as the first European into the "Whistler's Hall of Fame", by the US International Whistlers Convention.
13Died one day after his eighty-fifth birthday.

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Pro of Contra1963TV SeriesSinger
De ordonnans1962Bobbejaan
Davon träumen alle Mädchen1961Singender Gast (as Bobbejaan)
O sole mio1960Sänger
Ah! Qu'il fait bon chez nous1951Le chanteur
Ah! t'Is zo fijn in België te leven1950

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Tohuwabohu1994-1997TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Die Rudi Carrell Show1973TV Series performer - 1 episode
Ah! Qu'il fait bon chez nous1951Ah t'ls zo fijn in België te leven", performer: "Ah!Qu'il fait bon chez nous!"

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Die Rudi Carrell Show1973TV SeriesHimself
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen1969TV SeriesHimself
Der goldene Schuß1969TV SeriesSinger
Blijf jong1959TV SeriesHimself
Show Band Parade1957TV SeriesHimself
The Eurovision Song Contest1957TV SpecialHimself - Belgian Entry: 8th Place
Eurovisiewedstrijd voor het lichte lied1957TV MovieHimself
Televisite1955TV SeriesHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Tour d'Eurovision2005TV MovieHimself - Belgian Entry

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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