Career
Washboard Orchestra Lieve Hugo began singing in a choir and played drums and percussion in a variety of bands. In 1963 he joined Wasboard Orchestra, as a drummer and singer. A mutated version of the band headlined the 1970 Holland Festival at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and got the crowd on their dancing feet.
Health reasons forced him to leave Washboard Orchestra and put down the drumsticks.
Happy Boys They released four albums between 1977 and 1980. Debut album Akoeba contained the adapted bolero Memoria Foe Iko about the loss of their singer who knew that time was running out on him.
Post-break-up, Burgos and four Happy Boys-alumni formed the original line-up of Trafassi. They took Lieve Hugo"s unfulfilled ambitions to further heights and became one of the leading live-acts in the Netherlands.
Revival and tribute-concert In 2008, the Netherlands appeared to be ready for a Lieve Hugo-revival.
The Metropole Orchestra paid tribute to the King of Kaseko at the Concertgebouw backing up artists such as De Dijk, Oscar Harris, Re-Play, Boris Titulaer, Berget Lewis, Izaline Calister, Angela Groothuizen and Edgar Burgos. In 2013 both solo-albums were reissued on one cd as part of TopNotch"s Sranan Gowtu-series (Surinamese Gold) devoted to Surinamese artists from the 1970s.