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Armin van Buuren
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Dutch DJ and record producer (born 1976)
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Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren is a male record producer, disc jockey, composer, and lawyer from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Born in Leiden on December 25, 1976, he began his work period in 1995. He is educated at Leiden University and Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden. His musical output spans genres including trance, psychedelic trance, vocal trance, progressive house, afro house, dance, dance-pop, dj tools, and drum and bass.
Van Buuren has received International Dance Music Awards and is associated with record labels such as Armada, Universal Music Group, Blanco y Negro, and Kontor Records. He plays the synthesizer and uses software including Logic Pro, Ableton Live, and Pro Tools. He speaks Dutch and English. He has also performed under the pseudonyms Gaia, Rising Star, and Perpetuous Dreamer.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Armin van Buuren, OON (born in Leiden, Netherlands on 25 December 1976) is a Dutch trance producer and DJ . In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 he was voted number one in DJ Magazine's annual top 100 list of the most popular DJs. This makes him the first DJ ever to receive 4 consecutive #1 titles. Since 2001 van Buuren has hosted a weekly radio show called A State…
Known for
- Armin van Buuren b2b Indira Paganotto @ Sónar 20252025
- De Klassenavond — Self - Guest2025
- Ultra Miami's 25th Anniversary — Armin van Buuren2024
- Armin van Buuren Presents This is Me: Feel Again — Self2023
- Casa di Beau — Self2023
- Jacques en Urbain op Wereldtournee — Self2023
- Vrienden van Amstel Live 20212021
- Our Story - 15 years of Tomorrowland — Self2019
- Armin van Buuren: live at Ultra Europe 20192019
- Daily Fables2019
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1976
Discography
- Blue Fear1996
- Check Out Your Mind1996
- Push1996
- Boundaries of Imagination1999
- Communication1999
- Free1999
- Lost Soul Society1999
- One1999
- This Is Not the United Sampler1999
- Virgo (Remixes)1999
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,761,251
- Total plays
- 61,632,359
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Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren (born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer. Since 2001, he has hosted "A State of Trance" (ASOT), a weekly radio show broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries via more than 100 FM radio stations. Van Buuren has received multiple accolades throughout his career. He has been ranked the number one DJ by DJ Mag five times, including four consecutive years. He was placed fifth in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs list in 2022, fourth in 2015,
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Leiden
- Occupation
- radio personality
- Educated at
- Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- progressive trance
- Instrument
- Pro Tools
- Record label
- Vandit
- Discography
- Armin van Buuren discography
- Mass
- 80
- Official website
- www.arminvanbuuren.com
- Image
- Armin van Buuren Armin Only Embrace 2017.jpg
- Height
- 1.88
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- Commons category
- Armin van Buuren
- date of birth
- 1976-12-25
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- base salary
- 12105309
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- different from
- Armand Van Helden
- social media followers
- 5930000
- birth name
- Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren
- name in native language
- Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren
- pseudonym
- Perpetuous Dreamer
- official shop URL
- shop.armadamusic.com/collections/armin-van-buuren
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Encyclopedic overview
Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON (born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ, musician and record producer. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations. According to the website DJs and Festivals, "the radio show propelled him to stardom and helped cultivate an interest in trance music around the world".
Van Buuren has won a number of accolades. He has been ranked the number one DJ by DJ Mag a record of five times, four years in a row. He was ranked fifth on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs list in 2022, as well as fourth in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020, and third in 2017. In 2014, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for his single "This Is What It Feels Like" featuring Trevor Guthrie, which makes him the fourth trance artist ever to receive a Grammy Award nomination. In the United States, he holds the record for most entries, twenty-one, on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
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