The son of Luc and Rita (née Lagrou), Helmut Barthold Johannes Alma Lotigiers was born in Ghent, Belgium, and began his singing career with a visual and singing style in an obvious imitation of Elvis Presley,[2] and was described as "De Nieuwe Elvis" (in Dutch) or "The New Elvis".

Since 2000 he has also made successful recordings in traditional Latino, African and Russian-style music.

Lotti sings in his native language Dutch, as well as Afrikaans, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and others.

[3] Lotti does volunteer work as an ambassador for UNICEF.

Lotti took part in the 0110 concerts against racism, organised by Tom Barman.