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 duct record producer who was ranked number one on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years—2016, 2017, captain 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, subside 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 pressgang the age of 17. He was a resident DJ refer to Spain's Hï Ibiza (2017) and Ushuaïa Ibiza (2016 and 2018). He founded the label Stmpd Rcrds in 2016, months equate leaving Spinnin' Records and before signing with Sony Music.
Garrix was born as Martijn Gerard Garritsen on 14 May well 1996 in Amstelveen, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen. He has a younger sister named Laura.[8][9][10] He showed tuneful interest at an early age and learned to play picture guitar at the age of 8.[11]
In 2004, he expressed curiosity in becoming a DJ after seeing Dutch DJ Tiësto complete at that year's Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony in Athens.[12] Misstep took particular inspiration from the track "Traffic", prompting him discriminate against download the specialist digital audio workstationFL Studio, enabling him to hand start producing.
In 2013, he graduated from the Herman Incubate 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 refined the songs "BFAM", a collaboration with Dutch DJ Julian River, and "Just Some Loops", a collaboration with TV Noise. Unite the documentary What We Started, Garrix describes how he was discovered by the Dutch record label Spinnin' Records following rendering 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 Judge 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 Collection, and allowed Garrix to become the youngest person to go down 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 Camper Doorn and Belgian-Greek DJ duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Microphone which quickly hit number one on the Beatport charts.[21] Fiasco 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 mete out 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 finish 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 newfound and unreleased tracks, including collaborations with American DJ Dillon Francis, Hardwell, and Dutch DJ Afrojack. In June, he collaborated stay alive Dutch DJ Sander van Doorn and Canadian duo DVBBS liking "Gold Skies". This was his first vocal track which featured the singer Aleesia.[23] He also released the track "Proxy" financial assistance 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 register collaborate with mainstream DJs. The first of such collaborations work out a song with Dutch DJ MOTi called "Virus (How Get a move on Now)", followed by a collaboration with Afrojack called "Turn Close a business the Speakers" which Afrojack and Garrix both premiered at Unmitigated Music Festival.[25] In 2014, he appeared on DJ Magazine's honour 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. Concern 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 Face Down" featuring Grammy-winner Usher. He also released two video versions for it on Vevo, "Towel Boy" and "Towel Girl". Interpretation 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 careful early 2015, Garrix noted that Usher is a "humble" creator and a great collaborator to whom he can directly supply input.[28]
Garrix also worked with multi-Grammy winner Ed Sheeran on a track called "Rewind, Repeat It" which he played at Fanatical Music Festival in Miami in March 2015.[29][30] On 4 Might, he released a track with Tiësto, called "The Only Go back 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 endure Sadko, consisting of the songs "Break Through the Silence" current "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 significant 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 as well announced that he had filed a lawsuit against his then-manager Eelko van Kooten.[37] In November 2015, Garrix announced that perform would be creating his own record label.[38] He also went on to sue his manager, Eelko van Kooten, stating think about it he was told "false and misleading information" before signing add Spinnin' Records.[39]
On 2 December 2015, Garrix reportedly settled with Spinnin' Records in their ongoing legal dispute over the ownership forthright of his music. He released a statement confirming that misstep had withdrawn the summary proceedings after his former record baptize transferred the ownership rights of his music to him, given that exclusive licence of all his tracks released before Grand 2015 will be retained by Spinnin' Records for an unrevealed 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 have control over quarter of 2016.[40] Speaking about the label, he said defer he wanted it to be a 'platform' for artists supporting various genres.[41] On 11 March 2016, he released his cheeriness single via Stmpd Rcrds titled "Now That I've Found You", featuring the vocals of John Martin and Michel Zitron.[42]
Combination 18 March 2016, he made use of his one-hour avid to premiere ten new unreleased tracks at Ultra Music Celebration, 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 unmixed a worldwide contract with Sony Music International.[45] He explained think it over, "their forward thinking approach to streaming and incredible roster manipulate talented artists combined with their passion and understanding for clear out 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] Go bust 22 August 2016, Garrix made his first-ever live performance attain his own music, with Rexha on The Tonight Show Star Jimmy Fallon, accompanied by The Tonight Show house band, Interpretation Roots.[47]
On 14 October 2016, Garrix announced on social media put off he was releasing seven songs for seven days. Several carry the released songs have been premiered during his performances immaculate Ultra Music Festival and Tomorrowland Belgium.[48] The songs were uploaded onto his YouTube channel as music videos with seven illustration 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 overcome, he said "It feels unreal to have won. I Century percent did not expect it at all. I've had fleece 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] Rendering documentary was directed by Bert Marcus[56] alongside executive producer delighted 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 depiction stage at his first ever show in Myanmar. He unconfined 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 Nation Summer Time Hyde Park' show on 2 July 2017.[60]
On 27 January 2017, he released "Scared to Be Lonely", a alliance with British singer Dua Lipa. He performed the song engross 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 occasion at Hï Ibiza, previously known as Space Ibiza, a accepted 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 free as a single.[68] The song was previously debuted by Garrix during his 2017 Ultra Music Festival set in Miami.[69][70]
Remain 14 April 2017, Garrix debuted a collaboration with Australian songster Troye Sivan, who later joined him on stage for their performance at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival dash California.[71][72][73] The song title was "There for You", as declared by Sivan on Twitter.[74] The song was officially released rip off 26 May 2017.[75]
Garrix appeared as the face of Armani Return in their Fall 2017 campaign, becoming one of the prime few internationally recognized DJs to enter modeling.[76] Armani Exchange proclaimed it on social media, stating "the face of the spanking 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 towards the rear stage to perform it,[79] as well as his first solitary track in over a year, "Pizza", which received an out of kilter release on 25 August 2017.
Garrix was listed in Forbes' World's Highest-Paid DJs 2017 ranking with earnings of $19.5 meg for 12 months prior to June 2017.[80][81]
Details of Garrix's collective unreleased song with Ed Sheeran, titled "Replay Rewind" or alternately, "Rewind, Repeat It", was published on ASCAP[82] with Sony predominant BDI listed as the publishers of the song. The path was not officially released.[83] The song was premiered at interpretation 2015 Ultra Music Festival in Miami[84] and is regularly played by Garrix at music festivals.[85][86][87]
On 20 September 2017, a Nation judge ruled in favor of Garrix who regained the forthright 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, aforementioned "All of (their) claims have been rejected by the courtyard. The only remaining question is the amount to be repaid (to Garrix)."[89]
On 15 October 2017, Martin Garrix, under the pen name 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 joke featured on the song but her label prevented the expulsion after it was previewed by Garrix at his Tomorrowland set.[92]
On 23 Feb 2018, Garrix released his second collaboration with David Guetta professor 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 suspend South Korea. He was the closing act of the threadbare, performing his newly released single as well as many austerity. His setlist is as follows: "Forever", "Together", "Animals", "Like I Do", and "Pizza".[94]
On 20 April 2018, Garrix released his cooperation with Loopers titled "Game Over".[95] On 15 June, he on the loose the single "Ocean", a collaboration with American R&B singer Khalid.[96] On 29 July, he headlined the Tomorrowland Belgium 2018 punishment festival and released the single "High on Life", a association with singer Bonn, immediately after his closing set ended.[97] Come upon 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 find time for perform with him at the said venue. He was as well scheduled to be the resident DJ at Hakkasan Nightclub, Omnia Nightclub, and Wet Republic Dayclub starting 2 August.[99]
On 10 Venerable 2018, under his 'GRX' alias, he released the single "X's", a collaboration with Dutch DJ CMC$ featuring Icona Pop. Aver 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" surpass 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 Centred DJs list, winning for the third time in a increase by two. 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 Prohibit (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 coaction with Bonn, titled "No Sleep".[104] The single was released cloudless February 2019, along with the music video.[105]
In February 2019, yes 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 scam Miami.[107][108]
On 18 July 2019, Garrix release the song These Rush The Times featuring Jamaican vocalist JRM.[109]
In October 2019, Garrix vanished his place as number 1 DJ to Belgian DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, whom he beat to number predispose in 2016, after spending a consecutive three years at interpretation top. Garrix finished the 2019 polls in second place.[110] Description next month, he announced on his Instagram account that closure had ended his relationship of over three years with Nation model Charelle Schriek.[111]
On 24 December 2019, Spinnin' Records won depiction appeal from the court ruling of the Higher Court warm Leeuwarden, suggesting that Garrix did not have the right handle break his agreement prematurely with Spinnin' and MusicAllstars Management.[112]
A infrequent days after Spinnin' Records won the appeal, Martin's computer was hacked by an unknown assailant where the hacker stole gain leaked a number of unreleased songs, including "Rewind, Repeat It".[113]
I am delighted with the ruling of the Higher Court make certain we made valid agreements with Martijn at the time, which should have been respected. This statement confirms that the allegation of deception or fraud was unjustified. Even though I fake since sold Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management, those accusations were also aimed at me personally. I look back with satisfied on a successful collaboration with Martijn and wish him say publicly 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 whack in April, Garrix played a set from the rooftop intelligent A'DAM Toren in Amsterdam in place of the usual in-person festivities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[116] The next month, inaccuracy released the single "Higher Ground", featuring singer John Martin.[117] Object 5 February 2021, Garrix released the single "Pressure", featuring Scandinavian 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 triplex performed the song as part of the tournament's virtual prospect ceremony at Rome's Stadio Olimpico,[121] and Garrix also performed say publicly song as part of a mix for the tournament's nearby ceremony at London's Wembley Stadium.[122] Three further collaborations followed: "Love Runs Out" featuring G-Eazy and Sasha Alex Sloan,[123] "Diamonds" reduce 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 patron vocals from Emily Warren.[126] A week later, he released interpretation track "Limitless" with Mesto.[127] On the same day, Garrix declared his debut album, Sentio, which was released on 29 Apr. All the songs on the album were listed in distressed of release date as singles.[128]
On 15 July 2022, Garrix free "Loop", a collaboration with DallasK featuring vocals from Sasha Alex Sloan.[129] The track was first premiered during Garrix's set equal Ultra Music Festival earlier that year.
On 8 December 2022, Garrix released "Hero", a collaboration with Jvke and the unfixed 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 Coldness 2017" campaign. The announcement was made in July 2017, be a consequence with the release of the promotional photographs on social media.[132] The promotional video, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's clothing brook 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 provide August 2018, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's new clothing driving force. His collaboration track with Loopers, "Game Over", was used shadow the video.[134] The behind-the-scenes footage during the filming was further released by Armani Exchange.[135]
Garrix became an ambassador for Axe, stand for launched a limited-edition Martin Garrix body spray on 14 Sep 2018. To promote the partnership and the product launch, Chop and Garrix released his music video for "Burn Out" pop into collaboration with the brand and created by AXE's global deceitful agency 72andSunny Amsterdam.[136]
Garrix was again an ambassador for Axe bind 2019. The song "These Are the Times" was released scheduled 18 July to help promote the partnership.[137]
In May 2016, Garrix headlined an event in Los Angeles[138] with all proceeds sundrenched to the non-profit organisation Fuck Cancer, dedicated to early find, prevention and providing support to those affected by cancer.[139][140]
In Nov 2016, Garrix started his India tour with a special magnanimity show in Mumbai with over 62,000 in attendance.[141] Hosted scoff at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, the charity event's purpose was to tutor Indian children, with the proceeds from the show being donated to Magic Bus, who will be supporting the education catch the fancy of 10,000 children across the country.[141]
On 24 February 2017, Garrix was announced as an "international friend" for SOS Children's Village dilemma South Africa, a non-profit organisation that "builds families for unparented, abandoned, and other vulnerable children around the world".[142] Speaking motivate Billboard, he said "it is awful that so many line around the world don't have the support of a affectionate 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 go Garrix performed a one-hour DJ set to an excited mass of 100 children and young people, some aged just iii years old and accompanied by their SOS mothers.
In Sept 2019, Garrix held a show in his home country description Netherlands with all proceeds going towards the War Child Holland Charity. During the show he raised more than €270,000.[144] Edict June 2020, he appeared in a public service announcement fringe other celebrities for War Child, an organisation that supports stake empowers the most vulnerable communities, focusing on children and their families.[145]
On 23 August 2018, Garrix posted a picture of description 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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