TIRANA, Oct. 14- Albanian music fans enjoyed a wonderful performance by the Belgian group “Vaia con Dios” at the Palace of Concerts, organized by the entertainment company “The living room show.” The group also took part in a press conference after a tour of concerts in the region, including Albania’s eastern neighbor Macedonia.
Group story
Dani Klein, the lead singer, and Willy Lambregt decided to form the band Vaya Con Dios together with contrabassist Dirk Schoufs, because they shared interests in gypsy music, jazz, and opera. Their first single, “Just a Friend of Mine”, had a Latin feel and became a big hit in France, selling over 300,000 copies. Willy Lambregt left the group and was replaced by Jean-Michel Gielen. In the summer of 1990 they finally had their breakthrough in the Netherlands with “What’s a Woman?” peaking at number one for three weeks. The song is about the difficulties of men and women who, on one hand need each other, yet sometimes find it hard to understand one another. In 1991, Dani Klein and Dirk Schoufs decided to go their separate ways, and from then on the group consisted of Klein playing with various musicians. On 24 May 1991, Schoufs died.
The third album, Time Flies, is much more melancholy than its predecessors. Even though the music and the composition of the band changed, Vaya Con Dios remained popular in much of Europe – especially France, Germany, and Scandinavia – until 1996, when Klein left the music business.
She returned in 1999 as singer in the group Purple Prose, which released a debut album of the same name that year.
Vaya Con Dios returned in 2004 with a new album titled The Promise, released on an independent label. In 2006, there is The Ultimate Collection, a greatest hits album, with a DVD of the acoustic concert of Brussels.
In total, Vaya Con Dios have sold more than 7 million albums and more than 3 million singles.
