[1] His first album, So Many Ways, released in 2007, spent 11 weeks in the #1 spot in the Belgian charts.

[2] In May 2012, he joined Kevin Kayirangwa (winner of Idool 2011) and Dennis De Neyer (a contestant in the same series to form the Belgian Flemish boyband 3M8S.

Dean was signed to a label where he had relative success with a number of singles and the album So Many Ways, an album of covers of well-known hits in addition to the title track "So many Ways", his winning song in Idool.

In 2011, he took part in another reality television show, Disney's Friends for Change Games as part of 9-member Red Team, called the World Wildlife Fund with their captain and leader Mitchel Musso (Captain).

All the eight other teammates were Americans: Mitchel Musso (Captain), Jake T. Austin, Kelsey Chow, Davis Cleveland, Zendaya, Roshon Fegan, Carlon Jeffery and Doc Shaw.