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Roger Shah, Mr Magic Island, is a 5 times awarded DJ Mag Top 100 artist (#21 of the world) with over 850 million streams of his original music on the streaming portals. He’s without a doubt one of the most productive producer/artist with over 1000 music releases, countless hit records and considered classics within his genre. He travelled around the world with his unique sound and live performances and has played at the most important venues and festivals around the world. As a producer he has worked with and produced for artists such as David Guetta (for whom he recently composed the iconic Galactic Circus anthem which has been the opening theme for David’s residency at UNVRS Ibiza 2025) Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Sarah McLachlan, Kosheen, Bryan Adams or Moya Brennan from Clannad, whom is best known for her works with Hollywood producers like Hans Zimmer. Roger's unique live performances have been rewarded for five consecutive years in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll with a peak of #21 and received a double EMPO nomination for Best Trance & Progressive DJ and Best Radio Show and an IDMA award nomination as break through artist in 2008. He started his musical experiences as a classical music composer but due to his successful career as electronic music artist, he never got time to follow his other musical passion which is orchestral music, but recently he signed with some of the leading trailer music companies in Hollywood and started to contribute to exciting projects. Sunlounger is without doubt Roger's best-known alias. It was under this handle that he released the “Another Day on The Terrace” long-player in 2008. It reached No.1 on the Dutch ITunes' all-music-genres chart and included the single “White Sand”, which is still considered one of the biggest EDM classics of the last decade. In 2009 Roger released the Sunlounger follow-up album “Sunny Tales”, featuring the acclaimed single “Lost” - a track that took the illustrious ‚Tune of the Year of 2008' title on the ASOT radio show and reaped numerous #1 airplay positions. He released 5 Sunlounger artist albums and is planning a new one for 2026/27 His “Magic Island Mix Album“ series also continues growing and is on Volume 12 to date while Vol 13 is in the works as well. Currently #624 in the BookedDJ global ranking. Bookings are handled by Fusionartists. Also charted in The DJ Sessions #430.
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The DJ Sessions
#430
