 In his childhood he sang in the youth choir of Majel Lustenhouwer, on recordings by Rob de Nijs and Jochem van Gelder, among others.In 2003 he participated with his first band The Edge in the preliminaries of the first Dutch Junior Song Festival.While he was attending the Baarnsch Lyceum, a secondary school, he stood out by winning the 'Grandi Art', a school competition for music, as a pop musician for consecutive years.