up close and personal. with him on stage. and we tell the story behind his. cheerleader. more than ten million record sales seventy nine. billion streams on spotify felix yan is a top class d.j. this is how we shot to fame. certainly knows how to get the. most successful musicians. i've always had a vision in mind it was my dream to become a famous d.j. and i knew that the only way to achieve that was by producing my own tracks not just playing other people. but if you. can have felix has been producing tracks for some time such as the single cool

still he didn't release his long awaited album until. a whole three years after his debut hit. it took me so long because i needed to grow into the role of a producer who's capable of producing an entire album you know i just started making music on my laptop and all of a sudden i was making hits that really raised the bar and made for pretty high expectations i needed time to find my own sound too. and that sound is called tropical house his first album is a collection of twenty five tracks some previously released new songs created between his d.j. sets all over the world on planes in taxis and recording studios in london plus angeles and copenhagen he wanted an album with a harmonious concept. when it comes to making. a single is the record

company management team you get tons of feedback and everyone is thinking ok which single could be released next which is the right song but with an album i can just do what i like most. games career began with classical music he learned to play violin at the age of six by the time he was eighteen he was deejaying in london clubs his international breakthrough came at the age of twenty with his version of cheerleader a song by jamaican singer. steadily conquered the planet topping the charts in the u.s. and twenty other countries the original was less successful. than the song. the song was already a hit in jamaica but pretty are known in the rest of the world even after i remakes they released it but no one really listened to it for about six months but somehow it just reached the consumers it got to number one on spotify in sweden without any

marketing campaign or record company people just decided they liked it and put it on their playlist sent it to their friends posted it on facebook and stuff and gradually it got more and more popular. because next became another worldwide hit. cover version of the eighty's classic ain't nobody sold around two and a half million times. and set up a project called f. with german pop singer marc forster and their debut single reached number one in germany. but not everything the young star touches turns to gold later singles stayed at the lower end of the charts. matters most to me is that i feel good about what i do. in this case my music i

want to produce songs i'm proud of that i think are musically great and i want to share with people whether they get to number one or not doesn't matter that much done is ask my god his of. whether his songs topped the charts or not his life sets are a hot ticket and fakes already has future plans. for me personally i just have to see what happens i'm incredibly happy and grateful that i can do what i do i'm aware that it's a super fast intense lifestyle and i'll slow down on the touring in five or ten years i can imagine spending more time in the studio supporting younger artists concentrating on songwriting and production or maybe running a record label or even managing other artists. management. that sounds more like a business. but whoever wants to succeed in today's music business needs to be

business savvy. like c.n.n. is a master of tropical but the single hot to touch proves he can do funk to this collaboration with us singer alex and british producer hype storm the charts in four european countries enjoy the video.

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félix yan has fans to see all over the world what is typical routine for a gig which type of equipment does he use does he still get stage fright let's find out. it's time for phoenix again it's his job to stir the fans into. d.j.'s like him can command a six figure sum for just one set. time to freshen up at the hotel before his. new fairly early that he wanted to be a d.j. . i started playing tracks at birthday parties at first i just connected my phone to the loud speakers and realized that i like deciding what tunes to play i always wanted to be the host of the party making sure people had a great time. that's how i really started d.j.

. i did my first gigs in clubs in northern germany at the age of fifteen i graduated from high school i was seventeen then i really focused one hundred percent on my d.j. . that's pretty much all i take onstage with me.