1. VanVelzen had an international airplay hit when DJ Armin van Buuren remixed VanVelzen's song "Broken Tonight".
12 Facts About VanVelzen
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VanVelzen's father was a musician, and had a large influence on him as a child.
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VanVelzen went on to study Creative Communications at the Inholland College of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam, and won the Heineken Student Music Award in 1999 with his band The Goldfish.
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VanVelzen went on to play with Crazy Pianos and during a concert at the GelreDome, he met his current manager, Ruud H Vinke.
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In early 2005, VanVelzen was introduced to Dutch music producers Holger Schwedt, Nando Eweg and John Ewbank, and they decided to start working on an album.
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VanVelzen's first single, "Baby Get Higher", was a cover of songwriter David Sneddon's 2003 single, and peaked at No 17 on the Dutch Top 40 and the song was a big radio airplay hit.
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VanVelzen's second single, "Burn" was released in January 2007 and was a top 10 hit in The Netherlands.
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VanVelzen went on to have a sell-out tour in The Netherlands in 2008 and introduced fans to his new single, "When Summer Ends".
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The song, which was released in January 2008, VanVelzen wrote with John Ewbank, was the theme song for the summer movie Summer Heat and is VanVelzen's highest chart hit to date, peaking at No 6.
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VanVelzen recorded a new video especially for the German market at the end of 2008.
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VanVelzen went on to mentor the 2010 winner, Ben Saunders.
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Towards the end of 2010, VanVelzen embarked on a 34-date Hear Me Out theatre tour of the Netherlands and sold out every venue.