Put Amélie Lens and techno music in the same room, and everything you get in the result is bound to be explosive. Amélie Lens has established itself as the hottest property in the electronic music genre. The Belgian has a massive worldwide following and is almost always booked for shows all over North America and Europe, with overflowing crowds and enthusiastic applause. Her rapid rise drew praise and envy from fans and elite DJs who came before her.
Since catching the electronic music bug as a teenager, record producer DJ DJ has never looked back. Lens has released over five EPs and has its own label. She has also collaborated with her partner and manager (Sam) in the past for a business. This was before she decided to focus on her music full time.
Amélie Lens Biography
Born May 31, 1990 in Vilvoorde, Belgium, Lens has always had an eclectic taste in music. Growing up, she listened to bands such as Boys Noize, Nine Inch Nails, Ellen Allien, Underworld and many more.
She loved to go on music tours and but in 2006, at the age of 15, she attended a festival that set the stage for the rest of her life. It happened during the 2006 Dour Festival in Belgium. She had wandered into one of the tents where techno music was blaring. As the sound of the music overwhelmed her, she recalls, she fell in love with the genre. Amélie spent the rest of her teenage years going to techno music shows across the country.
Before Amélie Lens decided to pursue a career as a DJ, she worked at odd jobs, including cleaning toilets. She was then scouted by a modeling agency and went on to model for various renowned fashion brands and fashion photographers such as Tim Walker, Levi’s, Harrods and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Towards the end of her time as a model, she took her DJing business seriously and began to learn harder and perform at small local gigs. She had even started creating soundtracks for fashion shows. Lens found a way to create a schedule that allowed him to co-exist as a modeler and DJ.
At the time, she and her boyfriend Sam were living in a three-storey house they had bought in Antwerp where they operated an oatmeal manufacturing company, Baerbar. The other floors of the building also serve as a music studio and apartment.
During this period Amelie Lens was signed to Italian record label Lyase and they worked together to produce her debut album, Exhaler. Afterwards, she joined the Pan-Pot label for her second EP and started playing in bigger events.
It had become too difficult to juggle her as a business owner, model and DJ, so she decided to devote herself fully to her music career in 2016. This decision marked the beginning of a period of meteoric growth. She began touring more internationally and an addictive fanbase that showered her with praise and gifts wherever she went.
By March 2019, the Belgian DJ had released six EPs, including 2017’s ultimate hit Contradiction EP and 2019 Basiel EP, produced under Lenske Records, a label she co-owns.
His family
We don’t know a lot about Amélie Lens’ family, except for her grandmother, with whom she grew up. Amélie was born and raised with her single mother, Renée. Tragedy struck Amélie at the age of five: her mother, then just 32, had a heart attack and died.
As a result, little Amelie spent the next sixDuring her mother’s death, Amelie was afraid to have children, because she was afraid of having children. go through the same thing she did. But it also made him realize that life was temporary and gave him the added motivation to make the most of every second life gives him.
Belgian DJ Facts
1. The constant slowness of Lens’ parties due to concerts she attended as a teenager was a source of deep concern for her grandmother.
2. The modeling agency that scouted her met her at the same festival and the same day she fell in love with techno music.
3 She met her boyfriend, partner and manager Sam at a club the night of her 18th birthday. The two men connected their shared love for electronic music and he was her first mentor in DJing and music production.
4. Amelie Lens has performed under different names, including her mother’s name – Renee.
5. In September 2016, she passed out just before the start of one of her concerts with Pan-Pot. That’s when she quit her modeling job as well as the business she ran with Sam.