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Artist
Louis
12+ albums
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There are at least 5 artists called Louis: 1. A Serbian ethno-pop artist, whose real name is Ljubiša Stojanović. 2. A Cypriot pop singer 3. A French pop singer. 4. An incorrect tag for Louis Schefano's band Lou-is, also of Regia. 5. A German ambient and chillout musician from Berlin 6. A band called Louis! (aka Little Louis), from Holland. 7. A Korean k-pop singer. 8. A Portuguese hardstyle producer. Biographies in more details: 1) Ljubiša Stojanović Louis was born in Leskovac on June 25, 1952. He has been a professional musician since 1970 and his stage name Louis originated when he was nine years old as he was rather successful in intepreting Louis Armstrong’s songs. When he finished primary school he moved to Niš and enrolled in high music school - solo singing and music theory. From 1969 he has been a member of the Nis Association of Pop and Jazz Music. When he finished music school he enrolled in the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade and majored in solo singing and composition with arrangement and folklore. He was among the first to combine jazz with the recognisable sounds of his country’s folklore. At the 1971 Festival in Knjaževac he won the first prize for the modern arrangement of the popular old folk song U Stambolu na Bosforu (In Stambol, on the Bosforus). He was fully affirmed as an artist at the pop festival in Japan where he won among the really tough competition from all over the world singing a song composed using the folk music of southeastern Serbia.
