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- Henri Segers was born on May 20, 1921 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor and composer, known for Sextet (1965), Eurovision Song Contest (1956) and Dans ma rue (1960). He died on July 2, 1983 in Tervuren, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.
- In 1946 Segers founded a jazz band of his own in Brussels and named it L'Heure Bleue. With it, he was part of the 'invasion' of the Netherlands by Belgian orchestras. While Eddie De Latte worked in the Scheveningen Casino and Fud Candrix in the Palais de la Danse, also in Scheveningen, Segers' swing band performed in a dance club in nearby The Hague.
- In 1960 when Belgian king Baudouin married his queen Fabiola, the orchestras of Segers and Francis Bay both performed during the wedding celebrations.
- In 1953, a TV service was formed (NIR/INR), introducing television in Belgium. From the very start, Segers' combo was a regular feature in entertainment programmes. Three years later, producer Ernest Blondeel commissioned Segers to form a grand orchestra for television broadcasts.
- Segers and his combo appeared in over one thousand TV productions for INR and RTB, including many editions of popular entertainment shows such as 'Tiroir aux souvenirs', 'Alphabétiquement vôtre', 'Mélodie souvenir', 'L'écran dansant', 'L'escarpolette', 'Show de Bruxelles', and 'Dans ma rue'.
- Apart from his work with Belgian maestros, Henri Segers - like so many other Belgian musicians - also played with the German radio swing orchestra of Willi Stech.
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