The Sailor’s Legend

Born in Liege, Belgium, it was at a very early age that I developed a passion for music, my greatest outlet. At the age of 12, my mother gave me my first guitar, and the adventure has continued ever since, without ever stopping, despite the difficulties that any artist can encounter in his or her career. In 1991, I discovered Nirvana and became interested in the whole Seattle grunge scene, then, in 1994, punk-rock hit me full force and has always been my preferred style, as has hip-hop, which I became passionate about a little later. I set up my first band with my childhood friends.
In ’99, I joined a melodic hardcore punk-rock band called “HanginOut as the lead guitarist and main composer with my best friend Sambo, a bassist I’d met in college. It was a 10-year adventure, punctuated by concerts (around 250) in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, in small venues as well as large ones,releases on various labels, anecdotes, highs, laughs and arguments.
I’ve always enjoyed the group spirit, but I became particularly interested in hip-hop and solo production around 2007 after discovering Ill Bill, Jedi Mind Tricks, La Coka Nostra and a whole host of artists and producers, and then started producing under the name “IkonMusic. Years of perfecting my art, both in composition and mixing, while continuing to progress on guitar, bass and developing a passion for sampling after discovering the Mpc and its infinite possibilities. I started buying vinyls at flea markets and developed my own universe.
In 2020, I shifted up a gear and decided to take on the American scene, which I’d always admired, at all costs.
Social networks helped me enormously to do this, under the name that suited me perfectly, namely
The Gloomy Sailor“.
It didn’t take long for my name to make the rounds of the American Hip-Hop Underground scene, and since then I’ve been fine-tuning the creation of beats that are generally very dark, as my pseudonym suggests, but also rather jazzy tracks with slightly lighter atmospheres. At the end of 2023, I joined the American underground Hip-hop supergroup” God Division“, based in Denver, Colorado, featuring members from several US states as well as internationally.

With these words, your favorite sailor Gloomy introduces his pirate ship to conquer unknown lands.

Beware, it s going to be a bumpy ride, and let s hope you re not susceptible to seasickness.

Welcome Sailors…

Gloomy