Biography

He became an employee of Sylvain Tack and his offshore radio station 'Radio Mi Amigo'. He presented every day his Norbert Show' and especially Norbert's Saturday Show Train. He also became the top DJ of the popular Mi Amigo Drive-in Show. When Mi Amigo was banned in the Netherlands, he stopped working there.

In Leuven he was editor-in-chief of the Ekonomika Messages for two years. His participation in 'Deze Tijd' brought him into contact with contemporary journalism and layout. He was still a student when Jan Torfs (later a journalist at the magazine Humo) asked him to become the editor of the magazine Juke Box. Once he graduated, Torfs also made him editor-in-chief of Pick Up, whose circulation he increased tenfold in a few months.

From an early age, Van Slambrouck received solfège and piano lessons, as well as singing lessons with the SFX-Knapenkoor. He also took lessons with the jazz musician Louis Fiers and the accordion virtuoso Roger Danneels.

After primary school at the French-speaking Institut Sainte-Marie d'Haverloo and secondary studies at the Institute of the Brothers Xaverians (SFX) in Bruges, he studied economics at the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained his doctorate in 1963.

After the Mi Amigo period, he became the permanent DJ in a large-scale discotheque (formerly a cinema hall) in Sint-Kruis-Bruges. He turned "Norberts Hey Center", "Norberts Hey Club" or the "Norbert Feestzaal" into a multipurpose party hall that functioned as a discotheque and was also open for carnival parties, children's parties, musicals, theater performances and even special wedding parties. There were performances by Belgian artists such as Raymond van het Groenewoud, Will Tura, Paul Severs, John Terra, Joe Harris,Emly Starr, Jimmy Frey, Gaston en Leo and Octopus. International stars such as Donna Summer, Mud, The Rubettes, The Tremeloes, George Baker Selection, Smokie, Luisa Fernandez, J. Vincent Edwards, Dream Express and Dolly Dots performed there too.