In the seven years since Titanium, van de Wall has traded vanity for self-actualization, casually listing the self-help books he s been reading and noting the transformative power of positive thinking. This Saturday (May 22), he ll help uplift the estimated 200 million viewers of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest which kicked off today (May 18) in Rotterdam with a performance during the event s Grand Final. Featuring fellow include Dutch artists Glennis Grace and Wulf, along with an orchestra made up of young artists, the event promises no less than to connect Rotterdam to the world through music.
Having been off the road since the start of the pandemic, such unity is something van de Wall is keen to tap into. Ahead of that performance, he here talks about quarantine, his BFF Guetta, the complications of the EDM label and why electronic music is about to get really (like,