Zeebroek was born in Belgium and raised in Ghent by a Belgian father, the cartoonist Kamagurka, and a Hong Kong-born Chinese mother.

He was previously in a synthpop band called Hong Kong Dong with his sister and her husband, then later signed as a solo artist with Soulwax's record label Deewee, through which both Topical Dancer and Letter to Yu were released.

[4][5] His father is the Belgian cartoonist Luc "Kamagurka" Zeebroek, and his mother, Yu Wei Wun,[6] was a Hong Kong-born Chinese woman.

[4][7][8] She was born in a maternity clinic on Ma Tau Wai Road which has since become a nursing home,[9] and moved to Belgium at age seven where her parents ran a Chinese restaurant in Aalst.

[2] His father was a fan of Devo, Frank Zappa, and similar artists, while his mother was into Neil Young and introduced her son to Harvest.

[2] Subsequently, his father bought a guitar for the home, got Zeebroek a Fostex eight-track recorder for his birthday, and would take him to Herr Seele's music shop where he once found a Beck songbook.

[9] On 4 March 2022, Zeebroek released his debut album, Topical Dancer, a collaboration with fellow Belgian musician Charlotte Adigéry.