André Emile Ghislain Brasseur[1] (born (1939-12-11) 11 December 1939 (age 85)) is a Belgian keyboard player and organist.
Brasseur was playing in bars when he was signed in 1964, and started releasing albums and singles in his own country Belgium.
He followed it with "Atlantide"/"Studio 17" and "Mad Train", released under the name André Brasseur & His Multisound Organ.
Though it never reached the UK charts, The Kid became popular in the famous Northern Soul venue The Twisted Wheel, based in Manchester, and DJ Noel Edmonds used Holiday as the theme tune to his Radio 1 programme in the 1970s.
[1] A commercially unreleased studio 'take' of The Kid was used for track 2 of the BBC2 Trade Test Music Tape 'Le Retour De- Borsalino' that was transmitted between 22nd of December 1975 and 1st of August 1977.