Biography of Afrojack. DJ Afrojack
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IN 2006
WITH 2007
IN 2008
Growing fame brought in 2009
↓Nick van de Wall (better known as Afrojack) was born on September 9 1987 year in Spijkenisse (Netherlands). Music became his main love from early childhood. Already at the age of five he began to play the piano.
At the age of 11, Afrojack was introduced to the Fruity loops program. It was at this moment that his talent and love for music united and gave birth to the future producer in him. Having quickly become familiar with and appreciating all the delights of Fruity loops, Afrojack made it main program for his creativity - at least until today.
After graduating from school, Afrojack decides to devote himself to music. True, while he is unable to earn a living from it, he has to earn extra money in bars and clubs. It was there that he became acquainted with all the ins and outs of the Rotterdam club scene. And already at the age of 16, Afrojack first stood behind the turntables as a DJ in the Las Palmas club.
IN 2006 Afrojack goes to Crete, where he spends five months performing in every club that is ready to accept an aspiring DJ. His first mini-hit, F*ck Detroit, was born there. Upon returning to Holland, he became even more fired up and wrote track after track, trying his best to get someone to release them. And then, with the help of Sidney Samson and Laidback Luke, the track Afrojack - In Your Face appeared, which took #60 in the Dutch Top 100 and #3 in the Dutch Dance Top 30. Not bad for an 18-year-old!
WITH 2007 Years Nick begins active creativity as Afrojack, constantly striving to become the best. Track after track, remix after remix - and now he is opening his own label, Wall Recordings. If Afrojack is not performing on stage, it means he is working in the studio. There are no other options. And such hard work is beginning to pay off, including recognition from international stars: Josh Wink, Dave Clarke, Laidback Luke, Fedde Le Grand, Marco V and Benny Rodrigues.
IN 2008 Afrojack produces the smash hits Math and Do My Dance, which have been featured on the tracklists of some of the biggest names in the electronic scene, as well as topping the charts on some of the biggest Dutch radio stations. Since then, Afrojack has regularly been included in the lineups of the most important festivals, including Mystery Land, Tomorrowland, Extrema Outdoor and Sensation.
Growing fame brought in 2009 unprecedented fruits: Afrojack’s collaboration with David Guetta himself. Together the DJs created the track Toyfriend and recorded a remix of Sexy Bitch. Afrojack also played at F*** Me I'm Famous parties.
December 2010 Afrojack announced on his official website the release of the album “Lost & Found”. The album was released on December 22 2010 of the year.
Afrojack recently announced that he will be returning back home to Wynn Las Vegas for a 2018 residency. He will perform at XS, Intrigue and Encore Beach Club throughout the year with his official return was Jan 24 2018 at Intrigue
Starting 2018 with not wasting any time, Afrojack has released an array of diverse hits such as Bad Company with DirtCaps, Helium by teaming up again with David Guetta and Sia, and a remixe of U2’s Get Out Of Your Own Way
Afrojack’s next single will be Bed of Roses featuring Stanaj, slated for release next month.
Afrojack closed out 2017 with another club banger, called New Memories with DubVision. The collaboration will release via all digital platforms by on Friday, Dec 8. This is Afrojack’s 7th new track that he has released in a span of 3 months
In Nov 2017, Afrojack released his star-studded track called Dirty Sexy Money with David Guetta featuring Charli XCX and French Montana on all digital platforms. Having premiered "Dirty Sexy Money" at Amsterdam Music Festival, the track, co-produced by Skrillex, has an energetic melody that is laced with high octane, punchy beats and vocals from Charli XCX and French Montana
September and October 2017 were busy months as Afrojack released multiple tracks worldwide. Among the hits were No Tomorrow featuring hip hop heavyweights Belly, O.T. Genasis and Ricky Breaker; Keep It Low featuring Mightyfools; the highly-anticipated Hands Up with featuring MC Ambush; the remix of Major Lazer’s Know No Better; most recently LOST with VASSY featuring Oliver Rosa and more new music in the works
Afrojack celebrating his birthday and 10th anniversary in the music industry with his biggest event yet at Rotterdam Ahoy. The “No Place Like Home” event on his birthday, Sept. 9 with huge special guest performances by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Broederliefde, Lil Jon, Laidback Luke, Hardwell as the surprise headlining DJ and more
Earlier this year, Afrojack released his new single Another Life with David Guetta featuring Ester Dean. The music video is a futuristic anime take on creating life with a touch of Ghost in the Shell vibes. The song peaked at #1 on the US Dance Chart for 4 weeks and the music video has already reached over 25 million views on YouTube
Afrojack is a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, producer and DJ. He is known as a versatile producer and music artist who is able to move effortlessly across genres from electronic music to hip-hop and pop
Afrojack performed a record-breaking 8 shows at Tomorrowland 2017, Europe’s biggest dance music festival. He is a regular headliner at the festival each year but this year was like no other as he performs an impressive eight times in just five days. One of the sets was under his ‘Kapuchon’ techno alias, which he performed under at H? in Ibiza in Summer 2017
Afrojack and Wall Recordings celebrating another achievement at Tomorrowland this summer with the 300th broadcast of their hit radio show Jacked, which airs weekly on Sirius XM radio. To celebrate this, Afrojack and the Jacked crew performed a special one hour live set on Day 1 of weekend 1 at 8:00pm CET from a surprise unannounced location! Fans and listeners were able to livestream on Facebook here and submit requests for their favorite Afrojack tunes
Afrojack will often take his artists on tour with him and present them on either a JACKED stage at large festivals such as Tomorrowland or on a club night presented by WALL Recordings. These nights present an Afrojack DJ set along with the artists from the label. Afrojack provides his artists with guidance and counsel on their music, the opportunity to be part of the group shows and have their work showcased and promoted. All of the Wall Recordings artists work out of a creative compound Afrojack has set up at his house in The Netherlands, where he provides all the artists with their own studio space and living quarters nounced location! Fans and listeners were able to livestream on Facebook here and submit requests for their favorite Afrojack tunes
Afrojack performed for over 50,000 people on the main stage (Kinetic Field) as a headliner on opening night of EDC Las Vegas in June 2017 where he brought out special guests, hip hop group Rae Sremmurd performing some of their biggest hits
Afrojack has been evolving his sound tremendously in the past year from collaborating with hip hop artists such as Ty Dolla $ign for Gone, and Luis Fonsi for Wave Your Flag
Afrojack was nominated for a 2017 MTV Video Music Award for the song Gone featuring hip-hop artist Ty Dolla $ign in the Best Dance Video category
For Ultra Music Festival 2017 in Miami, Afrojack headlined the festival and brought out special guests including Ty Dolla $ign, Belly, O.T. Genesis and Stanaj. View full set here
Afrojack continues to work a lot with his good friend David Guetta, they've had a long and successful friendship that has produced many hits together including Hey Mama featuring Nicki Minaj and Titanium featuring Sia, later this year, Afrojack and David Guetta will also perform in Ibiza together and release another new track and music video together
During this past Summer, Afrojack performed as a headlining DJ at more than 40 shows globally in three months including 12 shows in Ibiza at Ushuaia, Pacha and new club H?. At H?, he will perform under the name of Kapuchon, which is his techno music alias which he performs a techno set
In the music industry, Afrojack is as respected and known for his work producing tracks for other artists as much as he is known for his own music. Just some of the tracks he has helped produce include Beyonce’s Run The World (Girls), Madonna’s Revolver with David Guetta and Ne-Yo and Pitbull’s Give Me Everything
Wall Recordings is Afrojack’s artist development company, where he has developed a number of successful artists. In 2016, he had a huge success with his artist Fais and the track Hey which went 3x platinum in Europe. The song has now had over 200 million streams with the music video receiving over 132 million views and has led to Fais and Afrojack performing at the 2016 MTV European Music Awards. In the past, Afrojack also developed at Wall Recordings, DJ’s Quintino and R3hab who are now very successful top 100 DJ’s in the world
Afrojack will often take his artists on tour with him and present them on either a JACKED stage at large festivals such as Tomorrowland or on a club night presented by WALL Recordings. These nights present an Afrojack DJ set along with the artists from the label. Afrojack provides his artists with guidance and counsel on their music, the opportunity to be part of the group shows and have their work showcased and promoted. All of the Wall Recordings artists work out of a creative compound Afrojack has set up at his house in The Netherlands, where he provides all the artists with their own studio space and living quarters
Afrojack won a Grammy for his 2011 remix of Madonna's Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix) shared with David Guetta for the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. He's been nominated a total of 4 times for remixing Collide with Leona Lewis; producing Look at Me Now with Chris Brown; producing Give Me Everything with Ne-Yo, Pitbull and Nayer!
Apparently the stars were aligned the day Nick van de Wall (better known as Afrojack) was born. Music became his main love from early childhood. Already at the age of five he began to play the piano. During his student years, the creative guy spent all his free time listening to all kinds of music. It is not surprising that so soon he, under the name Afrojack, got behind the turntables and began creating music himself.
At the age of 11, Afrojack became acquainted with the program Fruity loops. It was at this moment that his talent and love for music united and gave birth to the future producer in him. Having quickly become familiar with and appreciating all the delights of Fruity loops, Afrojack made it the main program for his work - at least until today.
After graduating from school, Afrojack decides to devote himself to music. True, while he is unable to earn a living from it, he has to earn extra money in bars and clubs. It was there that he became acquainted with all the ins and outs of the Rotterdam club scene. And already at the age of 16, Afrojack first stood behind the turntables as a DJ in the Las Palmas club.
In 2006, Afrojack goes to Crete, where he spends five months performing in every club that is ready to accept an aspiring DJ. His first mini-hit, F*ck Detroit, was born there. Upon returning to Holland, he became even more fired up and wrote track after track, trying his best to get someone to release them. And then, with the help of Sidney Samson and Laidback Luke, the track Afrojack - In Your Face appeared, which took #60 in the Dutch Top 100 and #3 in the Dutch Dance Top 30. Not bad for an 18-year-old!
Since 2007, Nick has been actively working as Afrojack, constantly striving to become the best. Track after track, remix after remix - and now he is opening his own label, Wall Recordings. If Afrojack is not performing on stage, it means he is working in the studio. There are no other options. And such hard work is beginning to pay off, including recognition from international stars: Josh Wink, Dave Clarke, Laidback Luke, Fedde Le Grand, Marco V and Benny Rodrigues.
In 2008, Afrojack created the super hits Math and Do My Dance, which were included in the track list of the greatest names in the electronic scene, and also became the best on the largest Dutch radio stations. Since then, Afrojack has regularly been included in the lineups of the most important festivals, including Mystery Land, Tomorrowland, Extrema Outdoor and Sensation.
The growing fame brought unprecedented fruits in 2009: the collaboration of Afrojack with David Guetta himself. Together the DJs created the track Toyfriend and recorded a remix of Sexy Bitch. Afrojack also played at F*** Me I'm Famous parties.
Afrojack has an amazing reputation as a DJ and his original style gives him the opportunity to remix for stars that most dance artists would never dream of. Just remember Lady Gaga – Alejandro and Madonna – Revolver.
Afrojack is respected by his colleagues and adored by clubbers. His talent and the energy he brings to the world allows Afrojack to set new standards in the dance industry!
In Your Face - Afrojack – 2006
Fruity – Afrojack – 2007
Don't Be - Afrojack & Red Frame – 2007
Thief - Afrojack & The Partysquad – 2008
Color - Afrojack – 2008
Drop Down - Afrojack – 2008
Claudia - Afrojack – 2008
Space - Afrojack – 2008
Esther - Afrojack – 2008
Dinges - Afrojack & Benny Rodrigues – 2008
Radioman - Afrojack – 2009
Polkadots - Afrojack – 2009
Music Is Magic - Afrojack – 2009
Avoid - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2009
Toyfriend - Afrojack & David Guetta – 2009
Ghettoblaster - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2010
Pacha On Acid - Afrojack – 2010
Bangduck - Afrojack – 2010
Real High - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2010
A Msterdamn - Afrojack & The Partysquad – 2010
Quacky - Afrojack & Sidney Samson – 2010
Louder Than Words - Afrojack & David Guetta – 2010
Bungee - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2010
I'll Be There (ft. Jimbolee) - Afrojack & Gregor Salto – 2010
Take Over Control (ft. Eva Simons) - Afrojack – 2010
Afrojack ft. Eva Simons - Take Over Control
the field must not be empty Apparently the stars were aligned the day Nick van de Wall (better known as Afrojack) was born. Music became his main love from early childhood. Already at the age of five he began to play the piano. During his student years, the creative guy spent all his free time listening to all kinds of music. It is not surprising that so soon he, under the name Afrojack, got behind the turntables and began creating music himself. At the age of 11, Afrojack was introduced to the Fruity loops program. It was at this moment that his talent and love for music united and gave birth to the future producer in him. Having quickly become familiar with and appreciating all the delights of Fruity loops, Afrojack made it the main program for his work - at least until today. After graduating from school, Afrojack decides to devote himself to music. True, while he is unable to earn a living from it, he has to earn extra money in bars and clubs. It was there that he became acquainted with all the ins and outs of the Rotterdam club scene. And already at the age of 16, Afrojack first stood behind the turntables as a DJ in the Las Palmas club. In 2006, Afrojack goes to Crete, where he spends five months performing in every club that is ready to accept an aspiring DJ. His first mini-hit, F*ck Detroit, was born there. Upon returning to Holland, he became even more fired up and wrote track after track, trying his best to get someone to release them. And then, with the help of Sidney Samson and Laidback Luke, the track Afrojack - In Your Face appeared, which took #60 in the Dutch Top 100 and #3 in the Dutch Dance Top 30. Not bad for an 18-year-old! Since 2007, Nick has been actively working as Afrojack, constantly striving to become the best. Track after track, remix after remix - and now he is opening his own label, Wall Recordings. If Afrojack is not performing on stage, it means he is working in the studio. There are no other options. And such hard work is beginning to pay off, including recognition from international stars: Josh Wink, Dave Clarke, Laidback Luke, Fedde Le Grand, Marco V and Benny Rodrigues. In 2008, Afrojack created the super hits Math and Do My Dance, which were included in the track list of the greatest names in the electronic scene, and also became the best on the largest Dutch radio stations. Since then, Afrojack has regularly been included in the lineups of the most important festivals, including Mystery Land, Tomorrowland, Extrema Outdoor and Sensation. The growing fame brought unprecedented fruits in 2009: the collaboration of Afrojack with David Guetta himself. Together the DJs created the track Toyfriend and recorded a remix of Sexy Bitch. Afrojack also played at F*** Me I'm Famous parties. Afrojack has an amazing reputation as a DJ and his original style gives him the opportunity to remix for stars that most dance artists would never dream of. Just remember Lady Gaga – Alejandro and Madonna – Revolver. Further successes of Afrojack only increase: these are performances at Pacha (Ibiza), at the Miami Ultra Music Festival and Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles, new remixes, new collaborations. Afrojack is respected by his colleagues and adored by clubbers. His talent and the energy he brings to the world allows Afrojack to set new standards in the dance industry! In Your Face - Afrojack – 2006 Fruity – Afrojack – 2007 Don't Be - Afrojack & Red Frame – 2007 Thief - Afrojack & The Partysquad – 2008 Color - Afrojack – 2008 Drop Down - Afrojack – 2008 Claudia - Afrojack – 2008 Space - Afrojack – 2008 Esther - Afrojack – 2008 Dinges - Afrojack & Benny Rodrigues – 2008 Radioman - Afrojack – 2009 Polkadots - Afrojack – 2009 Music Is Magic - Afrojack – 2009 Avoid - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2009 Toyfriend - Afrojack & David Guetta – 2009 Ghettoblaster - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2010 Pacha On Acid - Afrojack – 2010 Bangduck - Afrojack – 2010 Real High - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2010 A Msterdamn - Afrojack & The Partysquad – 2010 Quacky - Afrojack & Sidney Samson – 2010 Louder Than Words - Afrojack & David Guetta – 2010 Bungee - Afrojack & Bobby Burns – 2010 I'll Be There (ft. Jimbolee) - Afrojack & Gregor Salto – 2010 Take Over Control (ft. Eva Simons) - Afrojack – 2010
Popular music producer Afrojack began to gain fame at parties in clubs in his city and after a short time, he began to be recognized as a famous DJ around the world.
For Afrojack fans, it will be interesting to know that his height is 2m 8cm and his weight is 95kg. He was born on September 9, 1987 in the Netherlands and received the name Nick van de Wall. Nick's hometown is Spijkenisse, located in Holland.
Music has accompanied Nick since childhood. At the age of 5, Afrojack learns to play the piano and receives his first basics in the art of music. After some time, Nick notices the potential in computer programs, and at the age of 11, acquaintance with the Fruity loops program determines the future fate of the teenager. From that moment on, he developed a love for the direction of music - Hause.
Until the age of 16, Nick created a number of tracks that did not gain popularity, but became the beginning of his musical career. As soon as the future Afrojack graduated from school, he decides to devote himself to music and gets a job as a DJ in local clubs in Spijkenisse, where he demonstrates his early creativity. 
Climbing
The first club in which Nick acted as a disc jockey was called Las Palmas and gave the guy self-confidence. After that, he goes to the paradise for the club industry, namely the island of Crete. Here Afrojack gains experience as a DJ, trying to perform in every club where he will be accepted. This island also brought Nick the birth of his first hit called Fack Detroit.
After six months of staying in Crete, Afrojack returns to his homeland and, impressed by the birth of his first hit, begins to work hard on new tracks. His works come out one after another, but to open them to the whole world, sponsors are required. Already famous DJs in Holland come to the rescue - Sidney Samson and Laidback Luke, who release a new hit from Afrojack called - In Your Face. 
At the peak of glory
2009 was a sparkling year for the DJ in terms of fame. The musician becomes a talented producer and begins working with real show business stars, such as Lady Gaga and Madonna. His tracks are constantly in the top 10 around the world, and fans of electronic music recognize the compositions by the first notes. As a result, Nick receives constant invitations to various festivals around the world.
A little personal
An active young DJ and producer meets screen star Paris Hilton and they begin an affair. After some time, Paris invites Nick to move in with her and Nick agrees. Everything was going as well as possible, but Afrojack is afraid of a serious relationship with its responsibilities, and prefers a free lifestyle. As a result, the lovers separate, and Nick remains free as a bird.
