Martin Jensen (born 29 September 1991) is a Danish DJ and record producer best known for the 2016 single " Solo Dance". His videos feature sounds

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mixes. He has over 10 years of experience of being club DJ, in Sunny Beach. In October 2016, he was ranked 82 out of the 100 best DJs in the world by

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. In 2018, he was ranked 56 out of the 100 best DJs in the world. In October 2019, Jensen was ranked 45 out of

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's 100 best DJs in the world placing 9 positions higher than the previous year.

Early life

Martin was born in Silkeborg, Denmark in 1991. He trained as a contractor and machine mechanic. He worked as a seller at the machine trader Sorring Maskinhandel, which was founded by his father, Jørgen Jensen, in 1990. He started DJing at an early age, but became widely known in 2014.

Personal life

Martin Jensen dated Irish model Natasha Samsara until 2021, where they met in Bangkok, Thailand.

Career

His first single is called " Sí", which is a remix of a

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celebration at the

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, gained him a lot of popularity in many

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countries. His breakthrough came with the single "

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" in 2015, featuring Danish singer Bjørnskov, with more than 20 million streams on

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. In 2016, he released the single " All I Wanna Do" which also became a success, with more than 60 million streams at Spotify. His latest single " Solo Dance" from 2016, also became a success, and has so far made it into top 44 of Spotify's Global Top 50, with over 1,200,000 daily streams. In 2017, Jensen released the song "Wait" featuring New York-based duo Loote. In 2018, he released the singles "Pull up" and "16 Steps" (with

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). 20 October 2018 saw the release of his first EP titled ''World''. The EP consists of the songs "Rio", "Djoba" (with DOLF), "Pharaoh", "Osaki" and "Valhalla" (with Faustix), which were released over five days starting 15 October. On 10 April 2020, he premiered "Me, Myself, Online", a live event broadcast on

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from

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, with a peak viewership of over 35,000 people. Following the success of the event, he presented further broadcasts from a private hangar at

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on 24 April, and on the rear deck of the HDMS ''Niels Juel'' (F363) on 8 May. On 11 September 2020, it was announced that Jensen would replace

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as a judge for the fourteenth season of ''

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'' alongside returning judges

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and Oh Land.

Discography

Singles

Remixes

*2019: Declan J Donovan — "Vienna" (Martin Jensen Remix) *2020: Kid Cudi — "

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" (Martin Jensen Edit) *2020: Giiants x Maylyn — "Yellow" (Martin Jensen Edit) *2020:

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— "Give My All" (Martin Jensen Edit)

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, Martin 1991 births Living people People from Silkeborg Musicians from the Central Denmark Region Danish record producers Remixers Tropical house musicians Danish electronic dance music DJs