Biography
As the child of musical parents, I grew up surrounded by music. At the age of six, I began violin lessons. Soon after, I also took piano lessons, sang in a children’s choir, and went on concert tours with the youth orchestra of the Music School Delft. As a teenager, my interest shifted from classical to pop music. The violin and piano were traded for a keyboard, which allowed me to use headphones and play for hours without disturbing anyone. However, the keyboard had its limitations, so it was soon replaced by a synthesizer. That’s when my passion was born.
Inspired by great icons such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Jan Hammer, I dreamed of creating similar music, ideally for film and television. With this dream, I enrolled at the Music Academy in Rotterdam (Rotterdams Conservatorium, nowadays called Codarts). Unfortunately, this was short-lived, and through an old school friend, I ended up working professionally as a DJ. More than twenty years later, my body began to signal that the DJ lifestyle no longer suited my age.
In 2017 I switched careers to IT, and with a more regular lifestyle, my old love for synthesizer music slowly resurfaced. In 2023, I bought a Roland synthesizer and quickly picked up where I had left off. I found a nice 80s cover band to play in and at home I slowly developed my skills recording covers of popular synthesizer anthems in Apple Logic. Just to get used to all the available features of this DAW-software. In the summer of 2025 I was ready to start recording my own music.