Richard Jonckheere (born 20 January 1963), better known by his stage names Richard23 and Richard JK, is a Belgian musician. He has been a member of

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(which he joined in 1983) and was a founding member of

Revolting Cocks Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, are an American-Belgian industrial rock band, and sometimes supergroup, that began as a musical side project for Richard23 of Front 242, Luc van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry. History 1984: Orig ...

(which he left in 1986, and later rejoined in 2016). He released the EP ''

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'' with Jean-Pierre Everaerts and Marc Desmare, using the moniker

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, and two

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s in 1999/2000 as LaTchak (a collaboration with Everaerts).

Politics

In 2007, Jonckheere ran as a candidate in the Belgian general elections on behalf of the

Ecolo Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales'', (English: Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles)'' is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The ...

party. In the district of

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, he finished fifteenth, with 1,936 (or 2.03%) of the votes.Circonscription de Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde
Belgium.be. Retrieved on 18 July 2007.

References

External links

Richard 23
at

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Richard 23
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