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Artist News
Mystery musician Lewis finally found
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 11 August 2014
Lewis Baloue has finally emerged, the Light In The Attic label revealed this weekend. Or rather, the man behind the project, Randall Wulff, has made himself known.
As previously reported, Light In The Attic re-issued the 1983 album ‘L’Amour’ by Lewis earlier this year. The label knew very little of the record, let alone who or where the man behind it actually was. Nonetheless, the company vowed to store his share of royalties on the off chance he could be found.
After the album and the story behind it began to spread, a second record emerged, ‘Romantic Times’, which LITA is due to release later this month, only adding to the myth and mystery. But with word spreading, it was only a matter of time before someone’s memory was jogged for information.
And it was. Although it had been feared that he was dead, a friend of the musician got in touch and revealed that Wulff is alive and well and living in Canada.
“Randy had no idea about the recent interest in his old records and didn’t seem to care in the slightest”, the label explains a blog post. “We had a [cheque] for him but he wasn’t interested. We brought him CDs and LPs of ‘L’Amour’. He took a look, impressed (‘nice’), and smiled, recalling a number of positive stories from back in the day. Then handed back the CD, saying it was for us and kindly declined keeping it. Randy simply wanted to look forward with both his life and music and had no interest in any celebrity or financial gain having to do with the albums”.
It continues: “He told us over and over again, ‘That was a long time ago’ and that we should ‘have a ball’ with the re-issues. When we mentioned that we’d been looking for him for years, he was surprised, responding that he’s been right there all along and shops for groceries at his neighborhood store”.
Despite this, the company said it didn’t feel right not sharing the revenues from these two releases with him, even if he doesn’t want the money. As a result, the records will not be repressed once they’ve sold out, and Wulff’s royalties will continue to be set aside, just in case he does decide he wants them.
Read Light In The Attic’s full blog post about finally tracking Lewis down here.
