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OverviewAI-generated
Darude is the stage name of Finnish disc jockey, record producer, and composer Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen. Born on July 17, 1975, in Eura, Finland, he began his professional work period in 1997. Virtanen performs on the synthesizer and speaks both Finnish and English. His musical output spans genres including trance, house music, hard trance, breakbeat, drum and bass, and dubstep. He is represented by the copyright organization STIM and maintains an official website.
In 2019, Darude participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. His music has been tagged by listeners with terms such as electronic, dance, and techno. While his primary identity is that of a musician, he is also listed in the acting department.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film & TV
Eura, Finland
Known for
- Eurovision Diaries — Self2020
- Nurses — Darude2014
- Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu — Self - Eurovision Entry2012
- Eurovision Song Contest — Self - Contestant1956
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Finland
- Active from
- 1975
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,243,115
- Total plays
- 10,220,850
Tags
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen (born July 17, 1975), better known by his stage nameDarude (/dəˈruːd/), is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Satakunta. Darude is known worldwide for his anthemic trance style. He is an electronic dance music producer, DJ and lives in Turku, Finland. He debuted in 1999 with the smash single Sandstorm (#1 hit in numerous charts around the world) and subsequent album Before the Storm. Virtanen started his career as an amateur musician while in high school, m
via Last.fm · Darude
Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Darude
- Musical artist.image
- File:Darude photo in 2015.jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Darude in 2014
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Eura, Satakunta, Finland
- Musical artist.origin
- Turku, Finland
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1997–present
- Musical artist.associated_acts
- JS16
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- musical group
- Given name
- Henrik
- Family name
- Virtanen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Eura
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2019
- Genre
- hard trance
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Official website
- www.darude.com
- Image
- Darude photo in 2015.jpg
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- Commons category
- Darude
- date of birth
- 1975-07-17
- Commons gallery
- Darude
- pseudonym
- Darude
- birth name
- Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- social media followers
- 517000
- copyright representative
- STIM
- name in native language
- Ville Virtanen
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Italiano
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen, noto come Darude (Eura, 17 luglio 1975), è un disc jockey e produttore discografico finlandese di musica trance. Ha rappresentato la Finlandia all'Eurovision Song Contest 2019, in collaborazione con il cantante Sebastian Rejman con il brano Look Away, non riuscendo però a qualificarsi per la serata finale.
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