Dean Delannoit

{{Short description|Belgian singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{more sources needed|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Dean Delannoit | image = Dean-delannoit.jpg | caption = | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|1|27}} | death_date = | origin = Geraardsbergen, Belgium | instrument = Guitar, Vocals | genre = Rock, pop | occupation = Musician | years_active = 2007–2012 | label = Sony BMG (2007–2012) | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20070731233517/http://www.stemdean.be/ Official Website] }}

'''Dean Delannoit''' (born 27 January 1989), most known by the mononym '''Dean''', is a Belgian singer who was the winner of ''Idool 2007'', the third season of the Belgian version of ''Pop Idol''.<ref name=amg>{{cite web|title=Dean on MSN Music|access-date=2010-01-28|author=Chris True|publisher=AllMusic|url=http://music.msn.com/music/artist-biography/dean.5/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612024347/http://music.msn.com/music/artist-biography/dean.5/|archive-date=12 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> His first album, ''So Many Ways'', released in 2007, spent 11 weeks in the #1 spot in the Belgian charts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dean (BE) – So Many Ways |access-date=2010-01-28 |publisher=SwissCharts.com |url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Dean+%5BBE%5D&titel=So+Many+Ways&cat=a |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613032109/http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Dean%2B%5BBE%5D&titel=So%2BMany%2BWays&cat=a |archivedate=13 June 2011 }}</ref>

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. {{TOC limit|3}}

== Songs performed on ''Idool 2007''== * Workshop 1: "Let's Work Together" (Canned Heat) * Workshop 2: "Snow (Hey Oh)" (Red Hot Chili Peppers) * My Idol: "She Moves in Her Own Way" (The Kooks) * Rolling Stones and The Beatles: "Start Me Up" (The Rolling Stones) * Dutch Songs: "Iedereen Is Van De Wereld" (The Lau) * My Birth Year: "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" (Neil Young) * French Songs: "Une Belle Histoire" (Michel Fugain) * Big Band: "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" (Dean Martin) * Unplugged: "You Don't Know" (Milow); "Nothing Else Matters" (Metallica) * Rock Songs: "Ruby" (Kaiser Chiefs); "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Green Day); "Great Balls of Fire" (Jerry Lee Lewis) * Finale: "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" (Neil Young); "Ain't No Sunshine" (Bill Withers); "She's the One" (Robbie Williams); "Start Me Up" (The Rolling Stones); "So Many Ways"

==After ''Idool''== ===Singing career=== 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''. The album topped the Ultratop Belgian Flemish Singles Chart, after the title track had reached #2 on the Ultratop Belgian Flemish Singles Chart.

===Television career=== In 2010, he was co-host of the Belgian version of the Belenlux edition of ''My Camp Rock'' titled ''My Rock Camp Benelux'' alongside host Sita Vermeulen. The show aired on the local Disney Channel. The winners of the show were Cheyenne & Mayleen.

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). His red team won. Delannoit was the only member from Europe in Team Red. 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.

==In band 3M8S== {{Main|3M8S}} Starting May 2012, he is a member of the boyband 3M8S (pronounced Three mates). The band includes besides Dean (Idool 2007 season 3 winner), Idool 2011 (season 4) winner Kevin Kayirangwa and 2011 contestant Dennis De Neyer, who had finished 5th-6th on the 2011 show.

==Personal life== He is smaller cousin to the Belgian boxer Cyrille Delannoit (1926-1998)

== Discography == ===Albums=== {| class="wikitable" !align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year !align="center" rowspan="2" width="120"|Album !align="center" colspan="1" width="20"|Peak positions !align="center" rowspan="2" width="210"|Notes |- ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | BEL (Fl) <ref name="bel">{{cite web | url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Dean+%5BBE%5D | title=Dean discography | publisher=Hung Medien | work=ultratop.be|access-date=25 November 2013}}</ref> |- | style="text-align:center;"|2007 |''So Many Ways'' | style="text-align:center;"|1 |Track list #"So Many Ways" #"She's Not There" #"Kiss" #"Sandy" #"Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" #"Hello" #"Heartbreak Hotel" #"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" #"Great Balls of Fire" #"Rock Your World" #"School of Rock" #"Footloose" #"Ain't That a Kick in the Head" |- |}

===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" !align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year !align="center" rowspan="2" width="170"|Single !align="center" colspan="2" width="20"|Peak positions !align="center" rowspan="2" width="120"|Album |- ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | BEL (Fl) Ultratop <ref name="bel"/> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | BEL (Fl) Ultratip* <ref name="bel"/> |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2007 |"So Many Ways" | style="text-align:center;"|2 | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=1|''So Many Ways'' |- |"Blue Hotel" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|16 | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2008 |"We Don't Belong" | style="text-align:center;"|17 | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"You" | style="text-align:center;"|41 | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=1|2010 |"Wouldn't Change a Thing" (Sita & Dean) | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|26 | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4|2011 |"All I Can See" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|24 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Just a Few More Days" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|39 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Easier Said Than Done" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|16 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Break Your Fall" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|24 | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2015 |"Lama" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|59 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Zonder betekenis" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|67 | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2016 |"Ik heb je wel door" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|22 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Déjà vu" | style="text-align:center;"|47 | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|2017 |"MILF" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|36 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Sta" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|4 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Klatergoud" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|14 | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2018 |"Koorts" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|18 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |"Kristal" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|12 | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;"|2019 |"Ik wil het" | style="text-align:center;"|{{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"|7 | style="text-align:center;"| |} *Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

====Other singles==== *2012: "De allermooiste tijd van het jaar" (as part of A Stars)

==References== {{reflist}} {{S-start}} {{succession box|title=''Idool'' Winner|before=''Joeri Fransen''|after=''Kevin Kayirangwa''|years=Season 3 (2007)}} {{S-end}} {{Idool}}

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