1951 – Lucien Santelé becomes Tony Sandler with his first recording contract. Lucien was invited to perform at Le Venice, a swank café chantant on de Keyserlei, the main boulevard in Antwerp. He was accompanied by the Marc Mirror ensemble, the house ensemble at Le Venice. Two of the songs written for him there, “Het Lied van de Zee” (Song of the Sea), and “Mÿn Moeder was een Vlaamse Vrouw” (My mother was a Flemish woman), would soon become big hits.