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Birthday!
Robbert van de Corput, better known as Hardwell, was born January 7th 1988 in the Dutch city of Breda, based in the southern region of the Netherlands. -
Childhood
By age 6, a young Robbert was already playing musical instruments like the piano. His earliest memories of music are of his father plucking chords to tracks by James Brown and Michael Jackson. -
Childhood
Aged 10, Robbert watched a documentary about Dutch dance music that featured DJs Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten. This film was to change his life and was the first spark that ignited his interest in electronic music. -
A Start...
At 12 years old he DJed at his first gig, a friends birthday party, in front of a 100 people. After the party, Robberts dad came up with the idea of changing his DJ name from Robbert to Hardwell; by translating the family's last name, van de Corput, from latin and dutch into english. -
It starts now...
Aged just 14 he signed his first record deal. Between the ages of 14 and 18 years old Hardwell was regularly DJing at numerous clubs around the Netherlands, playing alongside respected DJs such as Chuckie. During this time, Hardwell had to take his parents with him to all of his gigs, because he was too young to enter the clubs on his own. -
YouTube and CD series
Just as Hardwell was transitioning into adulthood, he also began distributing a CD series called Electric Beatz and promoted it via his Youtube channel. This is his first ever upload on an account that now has over two million subscribers. https://www.festicket.com/magazine/features/facts-hardwell/ -
Hard work pays off....
2008 saw him claim the #1 position in the Dutch dance single chart 6 times in a row. -
Hard work pays off...
His international breakthrough came when his bootleg, Show Me Love vs. Be bootleg, became one of the popular and played dance hits of 2009. The song is a mash-up of Robin S' Show Me Love and the instrumental of Steve Angello & Laidback Luke's track Be. -
Revealed Recordings
Revealed Recordings was born in 2010 as a home for Hardwell's music and a platform for him to support music and artists he believes in. -
Top 100 DJ's
Hardwell entered DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs annual poll at #24. -
On Air Radio
Launched his Hardwell On Air radio show. Today the show is broadcast to more than 65 international radio stations around the world and also ranks in the iTunes Top 10 Podcasts in more than 40 countries! -
