Afrojack
Afrojack
Nick van de Wall, commonly known by his stage name Afrojack, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer. In 2014, he released his debut album Forget the World. Afrojack regularly features in top 10 of DJ Mag Top 100 DJs...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 September 1987
holland knows until
When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
anyone bigger change dj knows led scene stop
I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.
loved time
I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.
cool cooler finding happier love people
You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.
station
If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'
I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.
eventually wake
If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
life
The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.
music
I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
home music stop trying watching
If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.
great people
For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'
schooled
I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.
capacity couple gig january liked music people played playing rush songs stayed
When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.