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Born on 7 September 1977 in Utrecht, Netherlands Fedde Le Grand first hit the music scene with the single "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" in 2006 and reached several top lists in a number of countries including: top five on the Dutch Top 40, number one in the United Kingdom and spent five weeks on the Dance Charts in Spain. He then released several tracks such as “Let Me Think About It,” “Control Room,” “Sparks,” and remixes like Coldplay’s “Paradise” and ERTG’s “Missing” and Nikki Williams “Glowing.” These releases helped rocket him into continued success around the world, playing a number of major festivals such as Ultra in Miami.
Along with fellow DJS, Funkerman and Raf Jensen, Fedde le Grand founded Flamingo Recordings in 2004. Additionally, he started mixing a weekly radio show called "Dark Light Sessions" that airs every Friday on satellite radio, which features many of the Flamingo releases. In 2009 Fedde Le Grand was named by DJ magazine as number 29 on their annual Top 100 DJ Poll. On top of major EDM festivals, he also has played a number of other major festivals such as Coachella in Indigo Valley in California, and Exit Festival in Serbia.
Despite the fact that his best known track to date, ‘Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit’, might suggest ties to the American city, Fedde Le Grand is, in fact, from the Netherlands; Utrecht, to be precise. It might have taken him until 2006 to experience genuine charts success with that track - it topped the singles charts in the UK - but he’d been in the game a while already at that point, releasing underground singles like ‘The Vibe’ and ‘I Miss You’ that were hits in the clubs, if not on the radio. Since ‘Detroit’ made a name for him, Le Grand hit the top ten in the UK twice the following year, with ‘The Creeps’ and ‘Let Me Think About It’, but has retained a relatively low profile since. Le Grand’s last full-length album, Be at Space, dropped in 2011, but he’s continued to release new singles as he’s gone along since; ‘Don’t Give Up’ ‘You Got This’ and ‘Twisted’ all having been released this year. He continues to tour European clubs prodigiously, too, delivering high-energy and often experimental sets that blur the line between house and techno. He’s not played in the UK since late 2012, at the Ministry of Sound in London, but he’s seldom away for long; look out for more dates once he’s wrapped up his current U.S. run.
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