On her swinging journey through the decades, Lisa del Bo is currently stopping at the ‘Station of the 40s’. ‘Where are the times – The best of the 40s’ is the title and the programme of an entertaining journey through the pop music from the war and after-war era with 16 German, English and French titles. Of course Lili Marleen, Lale Andersens melancholic love song, is one of the selected musical delicacies of the 40s revival, just like Charles Trenets Chanson ‘La Mer’ and ‘BMBDS’ and ‘RACC’ by the Andrew Sisters. Her funky, light performance and Peter Koelewijns spicy arrangments make all those old Melodies shine brightly again.Nat King Coles balald ML has been transformed to a cheerful country-swinger; Bing Crosbys SOAS – with Helmut Lotti as a duetpartner – sounds almost like rock’n’roll. And with her versions of the songs that started the glorious era of America’s Country and Western songs ……., Lisa del Bo shows that she can easily conquer the audience in nashville’s Grand Ol’ opry.

Since the start of the 90s, Roelen and Del Bo have been working together. He discovered her in the ‘SoundmixShow’, a legendary Dutch singing contest on the commercial channel of VTM – a contest which she on in 1990 with the song ‘Whats a woman’ by the group vaya con dios. What followed afterwards is best described as the difficult yet pleasant road of working, tears and sweat, which every talented singer has to walk on. LDB, who actually only took part in the contest ‘for the fun of it’ and who was entered in the contest by friends, something she knew nothing about, was suddenly in the centre of the national attention: ‘After that I did not want a professional career at all. I had a nice husband, two children and a houselife full of harmony. Yet, once I had to give an interview and perform some songs and suddenly people described me as a crowd-favorite,’ Lisa tells us. ‘Luckily enough, I had Roelen by my side, who gave me all the time I needed, and I thank him for the peaceful and pleasant start of my career.’ In 1993 Roelen asked Del Bo to take part in the national song contest for the Grand Prix Eurovision. She agreed to it and at two a.m. the phone rang and it was Roelen telling his singer that he found the perfect song ‘Butterfly’ for her. She finished second, but her song became a huge hit back home in Belgium.During Del Bo’s ‘learning and experimenting’ year, in which she took up singing lessons and toured all over Belgium, she experienced everything what a singer can experience. ‘That was a good lessons: the phoney playback-performances, music that does not start when it should, electricity that suddenly falls away, light that switches off during a performance… she learned a lot about her work from these performances and of course also those that did go right and nowadays it takes a huge disaster for her to panic, she learned to approach everything with humour.,‘ says the sympathich, pretty Lisa, who, with her beautiful brown eyes, reminds us of Audrey Hepburn.She is not afraid to meet and sing with the biggest stars of the earth, something she has done frequently trhough out her career. She has a great deal of respect when I meet a big artist, but I always remind myself that we are all equal. And don’t feel bigger or smaller than anyone. That’s how she can see Helmut Lotti like a big brother whom she admires. He can do simply anything, he is a big star and an even bigger human being.’