Paul Van Dyke
Born in 1971 in East Germany, Paul Van Dyk is currently one of the most famous DJs around the world, having released many compilacions and studio albums thus influencing the world house music and embodying new trends in the genre. Being loved by thousands of fans worldwide, his performances are expected with anticipation in most of the party places around the world.
Paul was raised in a single parent family, after his father left the family after Paul’s birth. It was quite difficult fot Paul’s mother to raise him, however, at his early age he had ambitions to start earning and support the household, thus having the idea of being a carpenter and working while studying as a broadcast technician. His love in music first appeared in college -this was the time when records, claimed by East Germany to illegal, were distributed among the students, they made their own copies and spreading the illegal materials. After the fall of the Berlin wall, Paul started performing in several small clubs but people tend to believe his career actually started in 1991 when he played in the Berlin club Tresor thus attracting tha attention of several other DJs which led to him signing with MFS Records as a part of the duo “The Vision of Shiva”. This gave a significant start in his career.
In the next years Paul performed for several famous clubs with pixel fractional lasers showering the crowds, took part in radio broadcasting playing some of his best mixes, signed for different production agencies- thus he gained the love of the fans and became one of the top DJs that now perform at the top party places. With five soloalbums (the last one released in 2007 and called In Between that was rated his best album by the fans) and many compilations and performances, Paul has become one of the masters of the house and trance music.