Armand Van Helden

Armand Van Helden (born February 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American record producer and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" (released on East West Records), which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "You Don't Know Me (released on Ffrr Records)," which was Number 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1999 along with hi... more

Armand Van Helden (born February 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American record producer and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" (released on East West Records), which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "You Don't Know Me (released on Ffrr Records)," which was Number 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1999 along with his most recent song "Bonkers" featuring Dizzee Rascal which reached Number one in the UK singles chart in 2009. Van Helden was born to an Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) father and a French-Lebanese mother but traveled around the world as a child, spending time in the Netherlands, Latvia, Turkey, and Italy as his father was a member of the U.S. Air Force. At the age of 13, he bought a drum machine and started DJing two years later. He returned to Boston in 1988 but also moonlighted as a DJ in Boston clubs. He attended college in Boston. He quit his... less