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R3HAB

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Dutch-Moroccan producer with a release schedule that never lets up — clean, radio-shaped dance-pop on a big-room chassis.

R3HAB is the stage name of Fadil El Ghoul, born in 1986, a Dutch-Moroccan DJ and producer from Breda in the Netherlands. He began releasing music in late 2007 with a track called "Mrkrstft," remixed by fellow Breda DJ Hardwell, a connection that pulled him into the small, tight-knit early Dutch dance scene. A collaboration with Afrojack, "Prutataaa," led to a deal with Afrojack's label.

His own productions sit at the commercial end of EDM, built around big-room drops and clear vocal hooks, usually with a guest singer attached. He runs the label CYB3RPVNK, which puts out most of his work, and keeps up a release schedule closer to a label's output than a solo artist's. Alongside his own tracks he has remixed songs for pop and rock names including Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Rammstein.

His 2017 debut album, Trouble, was released independently and has passed 500 million streams. A second full-length album drew over 350 million plays, with the tracks "Ain't That Why," "Hold On Tight," "The Wave" and "Lullaby" all reaching the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic charts. His 2019 remix of ATC's "Around the World (La La La)," made with A Touch of Class, became his biggest streaming success, topping Spotify's charts in eight countries.

R3HAB was ranked number 12 on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs list in 2018. In 2019 he signed with an artist management company under Live Nation Electronic Asia and struck a distribution deal with Liquid State, a Tencent and Sony Music venture, to push his CYB3RPVNK catalogue, then more than 190 tracks, into the Asian market. That year's world tour ran to 116 shows, with Cash Cash and Alan Walker among the acts featured.

In 2023 he released "Rock My Body" with Romanian singer Inna and German producers Sash!, a track built around an interpolation of Sash!'s 1997 hit "Ecuador."

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