# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darude
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:48:30.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darude"
name: "Darude"
slug: "darude"
description: "Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen, better known by his stage name Darude, is a Finnish DJ and record producer from HINNERJOKI, Satakunta. His music is characterised by its progressive/uplifting style. He started making music in 1995 and released the platinum-selling hit single \"Sandstorm\" in late 1999. His debut studio album, Before the Storm, was released on 18 September 2000, and sold 800,000 copies worldwide, earning Darude three Finnish Grammy Awards. It peaked at number one on Finland's Official List and number 6 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart in the United States. Darude's second studio album, Rush, reached number 11 on the Billboard dance chart in 2003 and number 4 on weekly album chart in Finland."
tagline: "Finnish DJ, music producer and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Darude_photo_in_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1975-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           72.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.45463333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     100
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 545000
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.darude.com"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/darudevil/"
    handle:    "darudevil"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/darudevil"
    handle:    "darudevil"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Darude"
    handle:    "Darude"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1736183/"
    handle:    "nm1736183"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0LhHRmSd1EYM5QdNeNnCoQ"
    handle:    "0LhHRmSd1EYM5QdNeNnCoQ"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
    url:       "https://www.twitch.tv/darude"
    handle:    "darude"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvxu4st8jt0Li69hAh_nqQg"
    handle:    "@darude"
    followers: 545000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دارود (دي جي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دارود (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دارود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دارود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "דארוד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ダルード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%93%E1%83%98"
    title: "დარუდი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EB%A3%A8%EB%93%9C"
    title: "다루드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4"
    title: "Даруд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3490264"
    title: "Darude"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump