Biography

How I started making music as “The Entranced”

Nice to meet you here! I am Doenja Clerkx from The Netherlands, the maker of “The Entranced”. If you’re wondering why I’m not as white as the average Dutch person, it’s because my great-grandmother was Indonesian.

When I was a kid I always wanted to become an artist, but not in music, in painting! I followed drawing lessons and chose it as one of my courses in pre-university education. In the last year, I decided to study economics, after painting three pictures that said everything I wanted to say at that time, and getting good grades at  school. I was then alreay starting to grow a passion for music and trance.

During college I was looking for new ways to use my creative drive and one day I bought Music maker, because I was starting to become a real trance freak. I really loved making music, but got bored of working with somebody elses ideas. I wanted to create it myself!

Two months later, my first idea just popped up: the lead for “Live your dream”. Bit by bit more pieces came up, including a vocal. Since it kept me awake almost every night, I decided to buy a synthesizer and a better PC. I made the first version with music maker. It was a mess, but I could finally get some decent sleep!

In the mean time, I came up with lots of other ideas, so I decided to do things right and get better software and created a new version of “Live your dream”. My first posts of this song on the internet were under the artist name N-Chanted, but a few years later I changed it to The Entranced, because there were a few other bands that used names that were very similar to N-Chanted.

After “Live your dream” things became a little quiet. I had a very large stack of ideas for songs, but my day job was taking up most of my energy with long travelling times and working overtime. It was only ocassionaly when I had time and energy to work on my new songs “Total confusion” and “Losing you”.

In June 2010 I quit my day job to take a sabbatical for at least a year, so that I could spend my time on doing what I love most: making music! I finally finshed these two new songs and am now working on new material. I hope you like the songs I’ve made and would like to meet you on my network!

Doenja Clerkx a.k.a. The Entranced

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