Garrix was born as Martijn Gerard Garritsen on 14 May 1996 in Amstelveen, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen. He has a younger sister named Laura. Garrix was born as Martijn Gerard Garritsen on 14 May 1996 in Amstelveen, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen. He has a younger sister named Laura. In 2004, he expressed interest in becoming a DJ after seeing Dutch DJ Tiësto perform at that year’s Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony in Athens. He took particular inspiration from the track “Traffic“, prompting him to download the specialist digital audio workstation FL Studio, enabling him to start producing.Garrix announced that he would be supporting Canadian singer Justin Bieber on his Purpose World Tour in Australia which began in March and at the ‘Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park‘ show on 2 July 2017.

In 2013, he graduated from the Herman Brood Academy, a production school in Utrecht. Garrix was discovered by Tiësto, whom he described as inspirational, humble, and legendary. He had his beginnings with the songs “BFAM”, a collaboration with Dutch DJ Julian Jordan, and “Just Some Loops”, a collaboration with TV Noise. In the documentary What We Started, Garrix describes how he was discovered by the Dutch record label Spinnin’ Records following the release of his remix for the Enrique Iglesias single “Tonight (I’m Loving You)”. He signed with Spinnin’ Records in 2012, releasing “Error 404”, a collaboration with Dutch DJ Jay Hardway. In 2013, Garrix co-released “Torrent” with Dutch DJ Sidney Samson on Tiësto’s Musical Freedom label.On 7 April 2017, “Byte“, a collaboration with Brooks, was released as a single.^[69] The song was previously debuted by Garrix during his 2017 Ultra Music Festival set in Miami.

Garrix gained fame through his solo release, “Animals“,  which was released on 16 June 2013. The single became a hit in several countries in Europe, and allowed Garrix to become the youngest person to reach number one on Beatport.  The track appears on Dutch DJ Hardwell‘s album, Hardwell presents ‘Revealed Volume 4’. On 30 September, Garrix released a remix of “Project T” by Sander Van Doorn and Belgian-Greek DJ duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike which quickly hit number one on the Beatport charts. He appeared on DJ Magazine‘s top 100 DJs list in 2013 as a new entry at number 40.On 20 September 2017, a Dutch judge ruled in favor of Garrix who regained the rights to his music that were previously signed to Spinnin’ Records and MusicAllStars, to have his contract permanently terminated.