Dj

Music has been an essential part of my life almost from birth. As the son of a sound editor and saxophonist, music was instilled in me from birth. During my primary school years, I was often confined to bed because of asthma and I listened to the offshore radio stations a lot. Due to lack of money, I had been given an old tube radio and when the DJ started talking, I pressed the on/off button and announced the next record myself. The printed copy of the Top 40 was in front of me, so I knew which record was coming. I soon made my first programs and was asked to provide the music at school parties.

It all started on November 17, 1960, when I was born in Sint Jansteen in the Netherlands, right on the Belgian border. Here on the left you will find the first photo that was taken of me in the spring of 1961.

Music has been following me all my life. It started when I was a little boy, when my parents gave me a cassette recorder. I started recording songs on the radio. Later I would do this more and more refined, after all I wanted the records ‘completely’ without presentations in the intro and outro. I discovered the ‘Nationale hitparade’ on Sunday evening on the then Hilversum 3. Here the records were played completely without ‘interference’, my collection had started.

Paul van Dam grew up in the time when radio (Offshore) was still being made from the sea (including Veronica, Caroline, Atlantis, Mi Amigo, Radio Northsea International, Radio London, Radio 227, Radio Atlantis and the best Swinging Radio England).