Yes, he's a special kind of artist/performer here in Belgium. You've got the mainstream BV's (bekende vlamingen - famous flamisch (people) ) and amongst them are ofcourse singers. But the quality of their songs is really bad, and Boudewijn de Groot is, together with other singers and performers, classified under the name "klein kunst", which means small art. Some of them sing in typical, region bound languages and so on ... the thing is, they don't follow what is popular or not, and they are not afraid to say what is wrong with society ...
Another thing is ... I think I've heard he had written that a long time ago ... (was it during Vietnam? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> ), but I'm not completely sure
