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Known for his funky, Soulful voice, Dirk 'CASS' Cassiers, has built a loyal fan base with his melting pot of Jazz, funk and Soul songs. After losing his father at the age of 14, Dirk starts discovering his musical talents and at the age of 16 develops himself into a born entertainer as the frontman of several Pop & Rock bands. At the end of the nineties, he and his brother Jo @bronski found the band 'Orphan', with whom they score a number of radio hits in their own country. In the same period the brothers travel up and down to the US hunting down a record deal. Their quest in Atlanta, Nashville and Los Angeles doesn't get them a record deal, but they get noticed by Los Angeles based composer, producer, arranger Emilio Kauderer, who puts 3 tracks from their album ‘September Rain’ (1997) in the Hollywood pic 'Friends & Lovers' (1998) with a.o. Robert Downey jr, Danny Nuci, Stephen Baldwin and Claudia Schiffer. Kauderer asks them to perform live during a live concert at the Royal Academy in Hollywood during the film's premiere. After a successful passage on The Voice of flanders (Belgium) in 2012, it‘s not until the winter of 2018 before Dirk releases his next solo album 'Slower, Smaller, Happier' under his new stage name 'CASS'. A record full of references to his quest as a singing entrepreneur who, very quietly, still cherishes the dream of being a real artist, looking for a world stage. ;-)