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Danzel, born November 9th 1976 as johan waem, took his first steps in the music industry at the age of 15 by founding the Belgian pop-rock band “Scherp op snee” as vocalist. As a self-taught multi-instumentalist, he soon became the bass player of the band as well. Apart from that, he was the backing-vocalist in “The la band”, which accompanied big artists in Belgium. As a multi-instrumentalist and entertainer he also started to write and compose his own music.
His professional career started in 2003 by competing in the Belgian version of “idols” where he made it to the final 20 contestants.
Right after “idols”, he came in contact with Jaco van Rijswijk, a producer who had some big hits in the 90’s. Jaco introduced him into dance music, since Danzel had always been making rock music. Late 2003, recordlabel N.E.W.S. proposed them to make a remake of a song by “the Black & White Brothers” called “pump it up” . . . and yes . . . that’s how it all began.