Born in Andenne, Belgium, in 1927, Sadi already played xylophone at the age of nine. He fell in love with the swing music of Louis Armstrong in his early teens and, after hearing Lionel Hampton, switched to the vibraphone at the age of fourteen. He was the first European jazz artist to play the vibes as his main instrument. Although he is known to be a multi-instrumentalist (piano, clarinet, marimba and percussion), composer, arranger and singer, the vibraphone, together with the bongos, would stay his main instrument for the rest of his professional life.

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