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Hans Francken

Producer/songwriter/musician

About Me


Hans Francken is a producer/keyboard and hammond player from Belgium and has his homestudio based in Essen (B). . He has produced several albums and singles for SonyBMG (Popidol, Sandrine, Peter Evrard, Joeri,Wim Soutaer, Esther), EMI (Sarah, Clouseau,Eurosong for kids), Universal(W. Fierce),Virgin (Mama's Jasje), ARS/Universal (Born Crain), White label (Wouter), Entertainmentgroep (Eline de Munck) and he is currently working as a songwriter for artists like Sandrine, Udo, Clouseau, Born Crain etc.
As a live musician (Hammond, piano, keyboards)he has worked with a numerous national and international artists as Clouseau, Natalia, En Vogue , Shaggy, Admiral Freebee, Groovemania, Blue Blot, Noordkaap, Sandrine, Leo Sayer, Des'Ree, Jocelyn Brown, Liz Mandeville Greason, etc . You can find his name on an incredible list of cd..s as a studio musician on hammondorgan, piano and keyboards. He also works for popidol as MD for the liveband and does the vocal workshops with the idols. As an MD, he's working for Natalia (incl guests like Shaggy, En Vogue) and live TV shows in Belgium as Popidol, X-factor, Biebabeloeba, Het swingpaleis etc
Hans has collaborated as a producer with Clouseau (EMI) on their last three albums, wich all reached triple platinum status. He joins their liveband in 1999 and each year 200.000 people are coming to sportpaleis (Antwerp) to watch their liveshows.

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Member Since: 11/27/2006
Band Website: hansfrancken.be
Band Members:
Sounds Like: Clouseau live in 't midden

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Record Label: EMI Publ Belgium
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

update

Finally,Born Crain's new single "4 letter word" is on high rotation on all radiostations !The album is ready, we've put some hard work in it,and it will be released in the beginning of may.We've co-wr...
Posted by Hans Francken on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:05:00 PST

update

well here we go,we're touring with Clouseau in Belgium and doing some big festivals !Always nice to play on the festivals in summer, it's great.I've had some vacation, and that came right on time.We w...
Posted by Hans Francken on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:07:00 PST

Building new studio

Hello,I'm very excited about the new studio we're building.It's a studio with a recording hall of 30m2, wich will be nice to record strings, drums, grandpiano etc. I hope we can have it finished in oc...
Posted by Hans Francken on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST

New releases

Reborn is going to be released in Japan on the label Avex. "Walking in the sun" co-written and co-produced by me, is going to be the first single. I'm finishing the new album of Clouseau this week, th...
Posted by Hans Francken on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:02:00 PST

Clouseau at number 1 in Belgian charts

Clouseau is on nr 1 this week with their new album "Vonken & vuur" produced by Hans Francken
Posted by Hans Francken on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:08:00 PST

IN THE CHARTS

Clouseau entered the Top 50 on NUMBER 1 with their new album "Vonken & vuur"Already 50.000 copies are sold in 2 weeks !
Posted by Hans Francken on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:51:00 PST