Dutch DJ and music producer (born 1996)
Musical artist
Martijn Gerard Garritsen (Dutch pronunciation:[mɑrˈtɛinɣəˈrɑrtˈxɑrɪtsə(n)];[a] born 14 May 1996), known professionally as Martin Garrix (or Ytram and GRX), is a Dutch DJ lecture record producer who was ranked number one on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years—2016, 2017, president 2018. He is best known for his singles "Animals", "In the Name of Love", and "Scared to Be Lonely".
Garrix has performed at music festivals such as Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, and Creamfields. In 2014, powder headlined the first edition of Ultra South Africa, making that his first major festival. In the same year, he became the youngest DJ to headline 2014 Ultra Music Festival go ashore the age of 17. He was a resident DJ fate Spain's Hï Ibiza (2017) and Ushuaïa Ibiza (2016 and 2018). He founded the label Stmpd Rcrds in 2016, months associate leaving Spinnin' Records and before signing with Sony Music.
Garrix was born as Martijn Gerard Garritsen on 14 Can 1996 in Amstelveen, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen. He has a younger sister named Laura.[8][9][10] He showed melodic interest at an early age and learned to play say publicly guitar at the age of 8.[11]
In 2004, he expressed woo in becoming a DJ after seeing Dutch DJ Tiësto doing at that year's Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony in Athens.[12] Elegance took particular inspiration from the track "Traffic", prompting him differ download the specialist digital audio workstationFL Studio, enabling him covenant start producing.
In 2013, he graduated from the Herman Set of offspring Academy, a production school in Utrecht.[13][14]
Garrix was discovered by Tiësto, whom he described as inspirational, humble, and legendary.[15] He had his beginnings capable the songs "BFAM", a collaboration with Dutch DJ Julian River, and "Just Some Loops", a collaboration with TV Noise. Dilemma the documentary What We Started, Garrix describes how he was discovered by the Dutch record label Spinnin' Records following interpretation release of his remix for the Enrique Iglesias single "Tonight (I'm Loving You)". He signed with Spinnin' Records in 2012, releasing "Error 404", a collaboration with Dutch DJ Jay Hardway.[16] In 2013, Garrix co-released "Torrent" with Dutch DJ Sidney Jurist on Tiësto's Musical Freedom label.[17]
Garrix gained fame through his solo release, "Animals",[18] which was released on 16 June 2013. The single became a hit in several countries in Continent, and allowed Garrix to become the youngest person to lucky break number one on Beatport.[19][20] The track appears on Dutch DJ Hardwell's album, Hardwell presents 'Revealed Volume 4'. On 30 Sept, Garrix released a remix of "Project T" by Sander Front Doorn and Belgian-Greek DJ duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Microphone which quickly hit number one on the Beatport charts.[21] Take action appeared on DJ Magazine's top 100 DJs list in 2013 as a new entry at number 40.
In November 2013, Garrix signed a deal with American entertainment company Scooter Mistress Projects, making Garrix the company's first EDM client. The understanding was split-worldwide management with MusicAllStars Management, sister company of Spinnin' Records, since Garrix was already signed to Spinnin' Records.[22]
In Dec 2013, he released "Wizard" with Jay Hardway which peaked incensed number 6 in Belgium and number 17 in the Holland. In 2014, Garrix collaborated with Dutch duo Firebeatz on "Helicopter" which reached number one on the Beatport Top 100 charts for two weeks. He also produced the Sensation 2014 psalm paean, "Tremor", along with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.
Garrix performed at Ultra Music Festival 2014, where he debuted several spanking and unreleased tracks, including collaborations with American DJ Dillon Francis, Hardwell, and Dutch DJ Afrojack. In June, he collaborated accost Dutch DJ Sander van Doorn and Canadian duo DVBBS disturb "Gold Skies". This was his first vocal track which featured the singer Aleesia.[23] He also released the track "Proxy" send for free download. Most of these songs were featured on Garrix's debut EP, Gold Skies, which was released on 8 July 2014.[24]
After the release of his debut EP, Garrix continued spoil collaborate with mainstream DJs. The first of such collaborations essence a song with Dutch DJ MOTi called "Virus (How Progress Now)", followed by a collaboration with Afrojack called "Turn Reproduction the Speakers" which Afrojack and Garrix both premiered at Immoderate Music Festival.[25] In 2014, he appeared on DJ Magazine's apex 100 DJs list at number 4.[26]
In 2015, Garrix experimented with progressive house and started producing progressive tracks aside from his signature big room sound. Pomposity 6 February, he released the track "Forbidden Voices" as a gift to his fans after his Facebook page reached 10 million likes.[27]
In February 2015, he released the single "Don't Setting Down" featuring Grammy-winner Usher. He also released two video versions for it on Vevo, "Towel Boy" and "Towel Girl". Description track was written by Garrix, James 'JHart' Abrahart, and Busbee. It peaked at number three on the BillboardDance Club Songs. In an interview with British media company Digital Spy wrench early 2015, Garrix noted that Usher is a "humble" principal and a great collaborator to whom he can directly explore input.[28]
Garrix also worked with multi-Grammy winner Ed Sheeran on a track called "Rewind, Repeat It" which he played at Drastic Music Festival in Miami in March 2015.[29][30] On 4 Could, he released a track with Tiësto, called "The Only Waterway Is Up". On 22 May, Swedish DJ Avicii released a lyric video of the song "Waiting for Love" which was co-produced by Garrix. On 6 July, Garrix released the Break Through the Silence dual single with Russian DJs Matisse ahead Sadko, consisting of the songs "Break Through the Silence" dowel "Dragon". On 31 October, he released a track titled "Poison" as a promotional single. On 31 December, Garrix released "Bouncybob", his final track of the year, for free which stylishness had co-produced with Justin Mylo and Mesto.[31][32][33][34][35]
On 26 August 2015, Garrix announced that he had left Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management due to a conflict over the ownership of his music.[36] A point of contention was the release of "Animals" which appeared when Garrix was 17 years old.[37] He likewise announced that he had filed a lawsuit against his then-manager Eelko van Kooten.[37] In November 2015, Garrix announced that no problem would be creating his own record label.[38] He also went on to sue his manager, Eelko van Kooten, stating put off he was told "false and misleading information" before signing check on Spinnin' Records.[39]
On 2 December 2015, Garrix reportedly settled with Spinnin' Records in their ongoing legal dispute over the ownership truthful of his music. He released a statement confirming that inaccuracy had withdrawn the summary proceedings after his former record identifier transferred the ownership rights of his music to him, given that exclusive licence of all his tracks released before Revered 2015 will be retained by Spinnin' Records for an hidden period.[36] However, Garrix also stated that their other outstanding disagreements will likely be the subject of further legal proceedings.[36]
Garrix launched his own record label called Stmpd Rcrds in the good cheer quarter of 2016.[40] Speaking about the label, he said renounce he wanted it to be a 'platform' for artists annotation various genres.[41] On 11 March 2016, he released his eminent single via Stmpd Rcrds titled "Now That I've Found You", featuring the vocals of John Martin and Michel Zitron.[42]
Knot 18 March 2016, he made use of his one-hour wind you up to premiere ten new unreleased tracks at Ultra Music Holy day, including collaborations with Jay Hardway, Julian Jordan, Ed Sheeran, Bebe Rexha, Third Party, and Linkin Park[43] along with Area21, Garrix's duo with Maejor. On 27 May 2016, he released his second single "Lions in the Wild" with British DJ duo Third Party. On 13 June 2016, Garrix released a promotional single titled "Oops" which became the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016 anthem.[44]
On 26 July 2016, it was announced that Garrix simple a worldwide contract with Sony Music International.[45] He explained ditch, "their forward thinking approach to streaming and incredible roster scholarship talented artists combined with their passion and understanding for nasty vision of the future of my music made this a no brainer."[45]
On 29 July 2016, he released the track "In the Name of Love" with American singer Bebe Rexha.[46] In relation to 22 August 2016, Garrix made his first-ever live performance call up his own music, with Rexha on The Tonight Show Prima Jimmy Fallon, accompanied by The Tonight Show house band, Picture Roots.[47]
On 14 October 2016, Garrix announced on social media renounce he was releasing seven songs for seven days. Several come close to the released songs have been premiered during his performances erroneousness Ultra Music Festival and Tomorrowland Belgium.[48] The songs were uploaded onto his YouTube channel as music videos with seven visible artists who live-painted their interpretations of each song.[49]
On 19 Oct 2016, Garrix was named the world's top DJ[50][51] in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 DJs poll.[52][53] Speaking to the quash, he said "It feels unreal to have won. I Centred percent did not expect it at all. I've had proposal amazing year, with awesome shows and amazing fans – I'm so thankful for their support. I didn't even do a campaign, and it just shows how dope the fanbase is."[54]
It was announced that Garrix would co-star, alongside British DJ Carl Cox in an EDM-themed documentary titled "What We Started".[55] Description documentary was directed by Bert Marcus[56] alongside executive producer skull music supervisor Pete Tong.[57] The documentary was premiered on 15 June 2017 at the LA Film Festival.[58]
On 6 November 2016, Garrix won "Best Electronic Act" and "Best World Stage Performance" awards at the MTV European Music Awards 2016.[59]
On 31 Dec 2016, Martin Garrix played "Scared to Be Lonely", featuring Island singer Dua Lipa, for the first time while headlining representation stage at his first ever show in Myanmar. He on the loose the song on 27 January 2017.
Garrix announced that he would be supporting River singer Justin Bieber on his Purpose World Tour in State which began in March and at the 'Barclaycard presents Land Summer Time Hyde Park' show on 2 July 2017.[60]
On 27 January 2017, he released "Scared to Be Lonely", a association with British singer Dua Lipa. He performed the song sustain Lipa on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in March[61][62][63] before releasing two volumes of extended plays featuring twelve remixes.[64]
Garrix was announced as a resident DJ for the 2017 seasoned at Hï Ibiza, previously known as Space Ibiza, a approved dance-music club owned by Ushuaïa Entertainment. He previously had a DJ residency at Hï Ibiza's sister venue, Ushuaïa in 2016.[65][66][67]
On 7 April 2017, "Byte", a collaboration with Brooks, was unrestricted as a single.[68] The song was previously debuted by Garrix during his 2017 Ultra Music Festival set in Miami.[69][70]
Grasp 14 April 2017, Garrix debuted a collaboration with Australian chanteuse Troye Sivan, who later joined him on stage for their performance at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival family tree California.[71][72][73] The song title was "There for You", as declared by Sivan on Twitter.[74] The song was officially released telltale sign 26 May 2017.[75]
Garrix appeared as the face of Armani Reciprocate in their Fall 2017 campaign, becoming one of the control few internationally recognized DJs to enter modeling.[76] Armani Exchange proclaimed it on social media, stating "the face of the different Armani Exchange Fall Winter 2017/2018 campaign: Martin Garrix"[77]
At the Tomorrowland 2017 festival, Garrix debuted his YTRAM alias, which spells "Marty" backwards.[78] He also premiered the song "So Far Away", a collaboration with French DJ David Guetta, who joined him distribute stage to perform it,[79] as well as his first track in over a year, "Pizza", which received an legally binding release on 25 August 2017.
Garrix was listed in Forbes' World's Highest-Paid DJs 2017 ranking with earnings of $19.5 trillion for 12 months prior to June 2017.[80][81]
Details of Garrix's company unreleased song with Ed Sheeran, titled "Replay Rewind" or alternately, "Rewind, Repeat It", was published on ASCAP[82] with Sony wallet BDI listed as the publishers of the song. The point was not officially released.[83] The song was premiered at picture 2015 Ultra Music Festival in Miami[84] and is regularly played by Garrix at music festivals.[85][86][87]
On 20 September 2017, a Land judge ruled in favor of Garrix who regained the direct to his music that were previously signed to Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars, to have his contract permanently terminated.[88] Garrix, who demanded €3.7 million from Spinnin' and €650,000 from MusicAllStars, supposed "All of (their) claims have been rejected by the have a stab. The only remaining question is the amount to be repaid (to Garrix)."[89]
On 15 October 2017, Martin Garrix, under the also known as GRX, collaborated again with Brooks to release the song "Boomerang".[90] On 20 October, Garrix alongside Russian DJ's Matisse & Sadko release the song "Forever".[91] In December 2017, he released "So Far Away" with David Guetta, featuring Romy Dya and Jamie Scott. British singer Ellie Goulding was originally supposed to aside featured on the song but her label prevented the fulfill after it was previewed by Garrix at his Tomorrowland set.[92]
On 23 Feb 2018, Garrix released his second collaboration with David Guetta obtain his third with Brooks with the song "Like I Do".[93] Two days later, he headlined the closing ceremony of interpretation Pyeongchang2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium derive South Korea. He was the closing act of the obscurity, performing his newly released single as well as many plainness. His setlist is as follows: "Forever", "Together", "Animals", "Like I Do", and "Pizza".[94]
On 20 April 2018, Garrix released his collaborationism with Loopers titled "Game Over".[95] On 15 June, he free the single "Ocean", a collaboration with American R&B singer Khalid.[96] On 29 July, he headlined the Tomorrowland Belgium 2018 penalty festival and released the single "High on Life", a alliance with singer Bonn, immediately after his closing set ended.[97] Tax value 30 July, the music video for "High on Life" was released which contained footage from his Tomorrowland set.
Garrix was announced as a resident DJ at Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Inn, performing on Thursdays from 5 July to 30 August 2018.[98] It was announced that he will be bringing guests in a jiffy perform with him at the said venue. He was besides scheduled to be the resident DJ at Hakkasan Nightclub, Omnia Nightclub, and Wet Republic Dayclub starting 2 August.[99]
On 10 Noble 2018, under his 'GRX' alias, he released the single "X's", a collaboration with Dutch DJ CMC$ featuring Icona Pop. Build 14 September, he released his collaboration with Justin Mylo featuring Dewain Whitmore Jr. titled "Burn Out". The music video was released on the same day.
It was announced on group media that Garrix was releasing five songs in five years, in a similar manner to the single releases of his Seven EP in 2016. The songs are all part encourage the Bylaw EP, and are: "Breach (Walk Alone)" with Blinders, "Yottabyte", "Latency" with Dyro, "Access", and "Waiting for Tomorrow" farm Pierce Fulton featuring Mike Shinoda.[100] In the same month, Garrix performed at the F1 Singapore Grand Prix.[101]
In October 2018, Garrix was ranked number one on DJ Mag's annual Top Cardinal DJs list, winning for the third time in a achieve. His first win in 2016 made him the youngest DJ to top the poll. The awarding ceremony was held onstage at the Amsterdam ArenA during the 2018 Amsterdam Dance Finish (ADE) where Garrix headlined.[102]
On 1 November 2018, he released interpretation single "Dreamer" featuring American singer Mike Yung. He released his next single "Glitch", with long-time collaborator Julian Jordan on 14 December.[103]
Garrix announced an upcoming collaborationism with Bonn, titled "No Sleep".[104] The single was released take away February 2019, along with the music video.[105]
In February 2019, grace performed at the Ultra Music Festival Australia, a two-day holy day held in Sydney and Melbourne.[106]
In March 2019, he headlined Tomorrowland Winter, held in France, and Ultra Music Festival, held hinder Miami.[107][108]
On 18 July 2019, Garrix release the song These Hook The Times featuring Jamaican vocalist JRM.[109]
In October 2019, Garrix strayed his place as number 1 DJ to Belgian DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, whom he beat to number give someone a tinkle in 2016, after spending a consecutive three years at description top. Garrix finished the 2019 polls in second place.[110] Rendering next month, he announced on his Instagram account that purify had ended his relationship of over three years with Country model Charelle Schriek.[111]
On 24 December 2019, Spinnin' Records won rendering appeal from the court ruling of the Higher Court topple Leeuwarden, suggesting that Garrix did not have the right variety break his agreement prematurely with Spinnin' and MusicAllstars Management.[112]
A erratic days after Spinnin' Records won the appeal, Martin's computer was hacked by an unknown assailant where the hacker stole extremity leaked a number of unreleased songs, including "Rewind, Repeat It".[113]
I am delighted with the ruling of the Higher Court put off we made valid agreements with Martijn at the time, which should have been respected. This statement confirms that the arraignment of deception or fraud was unjustified. Even though I possess since sold Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management, those accusations were also aimed at me personally. I look back with conceit on a successful collaboration with Martijn and wish him rendering best in his further career.
—Eelko van Kooten[114]
In February 2020, Garrix released the single "Drown" featuring Australian singer Clinton Kane.[115] For the 2020 King's Day partying in April, Garrix played a set from the rooftop elect A'DAM Toren in Amsterdam in place of the usual in-person festivities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[116] The next month, fiasco released the single "Higher Ground", featuring singer John Martin.[117] End 5 February 2021, Garrix released the single "Pressure", featuring Nordic singer Tove Lo.[118]
On the occasion of his 25th birthday, 14 May 2021, Garrix released "We Are the People" featuring Bono and the Edge from Irish rock band U2, which served as the official song of UEFA Euro 2020.[119][120] The trilogy performed the song as part of the tournament's virtual foundation ceremony at Rome's Stadio Olimpico,[121] and Garrix also performed description song as part of a mix for the tournament's terminal ceremony at London's Wembley Stadium.[122] Three further collaborations followed: "Love Runs Out" featuring G-Eazy and Sasha Alex Sloan,[123] "Diamonds" deal with Julian Jordan featuring Tinie Tempah,[124] and "Won't Let You Go" with Matisse & Sadko and John Martin.[125]
On 27 Walk 2022, Garrix released "Follow", a collaboration with Zedd featuring visitor vocals from Emily Warren.[126] A week later, he released rendering track "Limitless" with Mesto.[127] On the same day, Garrix proclaimed his debut album, Sentio, which was released on 29 Apr. All the songs on the album were listed in take charge of of release date as singles.[128]
On 15 July 2022, Garrix unconfined "Loop", a collaboration with DallasK featuring vocals from Sasha Alex Sloan.[129] The track was first premiered during Garrix's set miniature Ultra Music Festival earlier that year.
On 8 December 2022, Garrix released "Hero", a collaboration with Jvke and the nonstationary card game Marvel Snap.[130]
In October 2015, Garrix was an ambassador for Swiss brand TAG Heuer.[131]
In 2017, Garrix was an ambassador for Italian brand Armani Exchange's "Fall Frost 2017" campaign. The announcement was made in July 2017, hit it off with the release of the promotional photographs on social media.[132] The promotional video, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's clothing point of view eyewear line, was released in August 2017.[133]
In 2018, Garrix was once again an ambassador for Armani Exchange. The promotional television for the brand's "Fall Winter 2018" campaign was released row August 2018, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's new clothing serration. His collaboration track with Loopers, "Game Over", was used diplomat the video.[134] The behind-the-scenes footage during the filming was further released by Armani Exchange.[135]
Garrix became an ambassador for Axe, presentday launched a limited-edition Martin Garrix body spray on 14 Sep 2018. To promote the partnership and the product launch, Personal consideration and Garrix released his music video for "Burn Out" neat collaboration with the brand and created by AXE's global nifty agency 72andSunny Amsterdam.[136]
Garrix was again an ambassador for Axe dupe 2019. The song "These Are the Times" was released bail out 18 July to help promote the partnership.[137]
In May 2016, Garrix headlined an event in Los Angeles[138] with all proceeds mug to the non-profit organisation Fuck Cancer, dedicated to early spying, prevention and providing support to those affected by cancer.[139][140]
In Nov 2016, Garrix started his India tour with a special beneficence show in Mumbai with over 62,000 in attendance.[141] Hosted authorized the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, the charity event's purpose was to school Indian children, with the proceeds from the show being donated to Magic Bus, who will be supporting the education care 10,000 children across the country.[141]
On 24 February 2017, Garrix was announced as an "international friend" for SOS Children's Village enfold South Africa, a non-profit organisation that "builds families for unparented, abandoned, and other vulnerable children around the world".[142] Speaking plug up Billboard, he said "it is awful that so many descendants around the world don't have the support of a lovingness family". Following the Mexico earthquake in 2017, Garrix donated $10,000 of his fee as Ultra Mexico line up.[143]
On 28 Feb 2019, Garrix visited the SOS Children's Village in South Continent while on tour for Ultra South Africa. During his give back Garrix performed a one-hour DJ set to an excited flood of 100 children and young people, some aged just tierce years old and accompanied by their SOS mothers.
In Sep 2019, Garrix held a show in his home country interpretation Netherlands with all proceeds going towards the War Child Holland Charity. During the show he raised more than €270,000.[144] Live in June 2020, he appeared in a public service announcement fringe other celebrities for War Child, an organisation that supports jaunt empowers the most vulnerable communities, focusing on children and their families.[145]
On 23 August 2018, Garrix posted a picture of rendering cover of his then-upcoming book Martin Garrix Life = Crazy, containing photographs of his career and personal life. The photographs featured in the book were taken by Louis van Baar. The book was released in October 2018.[146]
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