SX (band)

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SX
Origin Kortrijk, Belgium
Genres Indie pop
Years active2009–present
Labels Clay
Members Benjamin Desmet
Stefanie Callebaut
Sebastiaan Van den Branden
Christophe Claeys
Past members Jeroen Termote
Website www.sxmusic.be

SX is a Belgian aetheric indie pop group from Kortrijk, Belgium. The band was founded in the spring of 2009 by Benjamin Desmet (keyboard, guitar) and Stefanie Callebaut (voice, keyboard). [1]

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With Mister Lion the group won the Road2Fame-challenge of TV channel TMF in June 2009. Three months later, the group won the public's prize during the final of talent show Westtalent. [2] As radio channel Studio Brussel provided them both the Vi.be On Air-award and their attention, SX broke through in January 2011 with the record 'Black Video'. [1] [3] The video clip received positive criticism as well. On 26 May 2011 SX recorded three tracks (Black Video, Stop and Graffiti) in the Toots-Studio in Brussels. These tracks were broadcast in the Studio Brussel program Select and can still be heard at the Studio Brussel website. [3] In 2011, the group went on tour through Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. [4] The group's debut album, Arche, was released in 2012. The follow-up, Alphabet, was released in 2016.

Name

Multiple interpretations are possible for the short name "SX". The technological tone of the term, the futuristic scope of the name and the referral to sex are a couple of examples singer Stefanie Callebaut gave during interviews. [4]

Discography

Albums

[5]

Album(s) with hits in
the Flemish Ultratop
Date of
appearance
Date of
entrance
Highest
position
Number
of weeks
Arche201210-11-2012244
Alphabet18-11-201626-11-2016137

Singles

[6]

Single(s) with hits in
the Flemish Ultratop
Date of
appearance
Date of
entrance
Highest
position
Number
of weeks
"Black Video"07-03-201123-04-20113111
"Gold"201210-11-2012364
"Graffiti"201309-03-2013tip4-
"The Future"201322-06-2013tip37-
"Hurts"201613-02-2016401
"Shimona"201623-04-2016tip35-
"Mercury"201616-07-2016tip-
"Comfort"201629-10-2016tip10-
"Real Life"201904-05-2019tip49-

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References

  1. 1 2 "Grensrock: SX". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). June 18, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  2. "Westtalent van hoog niveau". De Standaard (in Dutch). November 30, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "SX wint Vi.be On Air 2011" (in Dutch). Studio Brussel. May 26, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Deschacht, Tom (May 21, 2011). "'We hebben altijd in de kracht van onze muziek geloofd'". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  5. "SX (albums)". Ultratop . Retrieved January 7, 2017.
  6. "SX (singles)". Ultratop . Retrieved January 7, 2017.