Martin Garrix(14/05/1996)pseudonym of Martijn Gerard Garritsen.
He’s passion for music was born as a child, when he started playing the guitar. In 2004 he decided to become a DJ after seeing Tiësto’s performance at the Athens Olympic Games. From then on he started downloading programs to create music; shortly thereafter he joined the Herman Brood Academie in Utrecht where he graduated in 2014.
His real career as a producer was born in 2012 where he started producing his first songs including ITSA, Keygen and BFAM. Also in the same year he won the “Nightlife Award” during the “SLAM.
From 2012 onwards Martin Garrix begins to publish his personal songs or remixes of other producers.
In fact, in 2013 he published Torrent in collaboration with Sidney Samson.
After the publication of several songs, the success reached him at only 17 years with the single Animals, published on June 17, 2013 through Spinnin ‘Records and which reached the first position in Belgium and in the United Kingdom, thus making Garrix the youngest artist always to have achieved this result.
The publication of other songs continued in 2014 in fact On January 20, 2014 he published his edit of Crackin by Bassjackers, followed on February 17 by Helicopter.
On June 2nd he released Gold Skies, a single made with Sander van Doorn, DVBBS and Aleesia, while on July 7th his edit of DubVision’s Backlash was released.
Also in summer 2014 Martin Garrix released the EP or an album containing all his 5 previous songs, on August 25 the single Turn Up the Speakers was released, recorded with Afrojack, one of the most important and famous DJs in the world, while the October 6 was the turn of the single Set Me Free, made with Dillon Francis and inserted in the latter’s album.
In the following year or in 2015 Martin Garrix began to publish other content at the beginning of the year in particular on February 6 he published the song Forbidden Voices for digital download as a thank you to his supporters for having reached 10 million likes on Facebook. On March 17, 2015 he released the song Don’t Look Down in collaboration with Usher, the DJ is one of the 50 winners of the 2015 YouTube Music Awards.
From summer 2015 Garrix obtained a residence at Ushuaia in Ibiza, one of the most important and famous discos in Europe.
Three days later he released the single Dragon with the Russian duo Matisse & Sadko, followed the following week by Break Through the Silence; both tracks reached the top position in the Beatport chart and were accompanied by the related video clips released on YouTube.
Also in 2015 in particular on November 19th Martin Garrix founded his own record label STMPD RCRDS through which he released the single Now That I’ve Found you on march 11th 2016.
Finally, the last single that Martin Garrix released was Scared to Be Lonely, recorded together with the singer Dua Lipa(27 Jenuary 2017).
TOUR
To conclude, Martin Garrix is a producer and singer who loves to entertain his followers by organizing concerts and festivals: in fact Garrix has shown his dj skills in front of millions of people around the world for example the most important of many was that in tommorowland. He also organized many tours around the world.
IN SINGERS' MIND 