Milow

Inspired by watching the mighty Pink Floyd perform one of their final live shows at the Rock Werchter festival when he was 12 years old, Jonathan Vandenbroeck began writing his own music on the piano and the guitar when he was 15, with a dream in his heart to one day come back and play the Rock Werchter festival in his own right. After playing in a few bands around high school and in university, he decided to go solo in 2003, taking the stage name Milow to go with it. After playing as many small shows as he could around his native Belgium, he made his first big impression at Humo’s Rock Rally, a talent competition that previously gave the world dEUS. While he didn’t win, he made enough of an impression to self-release his first album “The Bigger Picture” in January 2006, and after Milow’s single “You Don’t Know” became a top three hit on the singles chart, it would eventually became a Gold certified smash hit in his home country.

After his second album “Coming Of Age” was released in 2008 and proved to be another huge success in his home country, a cover of 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake’s “Ayo Technology” that he performed for a Belgian radio station became a surprise hit all over the world. It hit the number one spot on the Belgian, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss and Danish singles charts and had hit the top ten everywhere from Spain to Finland. “Coming Of Age” was re-released all over Europe, going on to sell over half a million copies all over the world, and ever since then, Milow has remained one of the most thrillingly unique and defiantly succesful songwriters of his generation. With the stamp of approval of everyone from Jason Mraz to Kanye West, Milow is a true artist, one that comes highly recommended.