David Linx

David Linx (born 22 March 1965 in Brussels) is a Belgian jazz and chanson singer, composer and lyricist. Linx, a son of the composer and musician Elias Gistelinck, studied percussion and was the drummer of the American jazz singer Mark Murphy for three years, which motivated him to start singing himself. Linx has been teaching jazz singing at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels since 1993. In 1986 he recorded a record with a large group of musicians with the American writer and activist James Baldwin, who reads poems on it.