Career
Among his most famous songs are: Zoek de zon op (Look for the sun), Schep vreugde in het leven (Put joy in life) and Louise zit niet op je nagels te bijten (Louise, don"t bite your nails). Roots
Bandy, raised in a working-class family in the Hague, worked as a piccolo, houseservant, streetsinger and as a conscriptionist with the navy before he started a serious career in variety in 1915. Lou continued under the name Lou Bandy.
With her support, the young man from the Hague found himself within a few years working with the top artists and theater impresarios.
Bandy was known by the public as a singer of happy lyrics, but to those who knew him better, he had a less upbeat image. When he was not popular anymore and he became very lonely he killed himself in his Zandvoort apartment close to the sea.