Paul van Dijk net worth
Paul van Dyk Net Worth: Paul van Dyk is a German electronic dance music DJ, musician and record producer who has a net worth of $60 million. Paul Van Dyk was one of the first artists to be nominated for a Grammy in dance and electronica. Paul van Dyk was born Matthias Paul on December 16, 1971 in Eisenhutenstadt, East Germany, and he grew up in East Berlin.
In East Berlin, Van Dijk worked as a broadcast technician and began training as a carpenter. He said his music education came from radio. There were no record stores in East Germany, so he kept in touch with the world on the other side of the Berlin Wall by surreptitiously listening to popular but banned Western radio stations and the occasional mixtapes smuggled into the country and copied among school friends. He is considered one of the first true superstar DJs, and was the first Grammy-nominated Best Dance/Electronic Album for “Reflections” released in 2003. He was named the number one DJ in the world in both 2005 and 2006. He was the first DJ to be named number one by “Mixmag” in 2005. Paul van Dyk was an early pioneer of trance music, starting in the 1990s. These days, he prefers to move away from the trance label and refer to his mixes as electronic music.
