Lady Linn

Background

De Greef grew up in the East-Flemish town of Serskamp, a part of the community Wichelen and now lives in Ghent, where she also teaches at the Music Academy and the Institute for Music and Dance (MUDA).

Education

She studied jazz and light music at the Conservatory of Ghent. After she graduated in 2004, she became the lead singer of Bolchi, a popular group in Ghent led by Jeroen De Pessemier and which currently does live acts with Foxylane and The Subsidiary

Career

She does live performances with her group Lady Linn And Her Magnificent Seven. The band brings a mix of jazz, popular and soul. Apart from that, she is also the singer of the hiphop band Skeemz.

She can also be heard as backing vocal at the Civil Defense Over & weer (2008) by Eva De Roovere and the Civil Defense Humanoid and single Call on me (both 1999) from Marjan Debaene.

She also took care of the singing parts for DJ Red Doctorate because of which she could be seen often in Belgian and international house scene. A last project in which Lien participates is "Howie and Linn".

But, because of her affection for jazz in 2004 she let herself surround with seven musicians, and during two years she toured with covers of jazz and swing songs from the 1930s and 1940s. From 2006 on they also started bringing own songs, which resulted in the Civil Defense "Here we go Again" in February 2008.

This Civil Defense is filled with tracks by De Greef herself, except for one title.

With this Civil Defense and the corresponding singles they broke through in Flanders and they scored several hits like "A Love Affair" and "That"s Allright". In April 2009 they obtained gold with 15,000 sold copies and shortly after even platinum. That period she also stood on the Hotlist of Studio Brussel with her cover of "I Don"t Wanna Dance" by Eddy Grant.

She was also nominated in the category "breakthrough of the year", and she immediately went home with the main prize.

Later in that year, on 8 August, she received the Radio 2 Summer Hit-trophy in Westende. In 2012, their album Number Goodbye at all became their second album to reach the golden status.

Achievements

• On 6 February 2009 De Greef won one of the 2008 Music Industry Awards (Master of International Affairs), namely that in the category of best female artist ahead of Natalia, Sandrine and Kate Ryan. On 8 January 2010 Lady Linn and Her Magnificent Seven won the Master of International Affairs for best popular artist and that of best female solo artist.