BORN IN BELGIUM. RAISED IN THE WORLD. LONDON. BRUSSELS. AMSTERDAM. SOME PEOPLE WAKE UP IN THEIR FORTIES AND SUDDENLY REALIZE ‘WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING THIS WHOLE TIME’. NOT JASPER ERKENS. HE’S ONLY 30 AND HE HAS ALREADY LIVED A DREAM-CHASING LIFE, LUSCIOUSLY SEASONED WITH MUSICAL FULFILMENT. ERKENS RELEASED HIS FIRST ALBUM AT THE TENDER AGE OF 15. HE FOUND HIS EARLY INSPIRATION IN THE LIKES OF DAVID BOWIE AND DAMIEN RICE. HIS ARDOUR AND MUSICAL EAGERNESS RESULTED IN SOME HIGHLY APPRAISED SUPPORT GIGS. AFTER HAVING EARNED A SPOT AS OPENER FOR ADELE IN BRUSSELS, THE SINGER TOLD HIM HE SHOULD TRY HIS LUCK AT THE BRIT-SCHOOL IN LONDON. WISE ADVICE. HE DIDN’T TAKE IT FOR GRANTED, SAID ‘GOODBYE BELGIUM’ AND LEFT FOR A MUSICAL QUEST. FIVE YEARS LATER – A YOUNG MAN NOW – HE WENT BACK TO BELGIUM, BUT SOON FELT THE URGE TO SPREAD HIS SONG WRITING WINGS EVEN FURTHER. ERKENS MOVED TO AMSTERDAM, FOUND HIMSELF SUBMERGED IN A CREATIVE HUB AND BEGAN TO WRITE. 
IN 2021, ERKENS GAINS INDEPENDENCE AND USES THIS FREEDOM BY RELEASING NEW MUSIC IN 2021 (LIMBO TERMINAL) AND 2023 (ARTIFICIAL MESSIAH™). IN THE MEANTIME, ERKENS HAS COME FULL CIRCLE AND HE IS NOW LIVING BACK IN BELGIUM.

JASPER'S ACOUSTIC COVER OF GNARLS BARKLEY'S 'CRAZY' GETS PICKED UP BY STUDIO BRUSSELS.

JASPER (NOW 17) WINS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AWARD FOR 'BEST DEBUT'.

PLAYS THE OPENING SHOWS IN BELGIUM FOR ADELE, WHO ENCOURAGES HIM TO AUDITION AT THE BRIT SCHOOL IN LONDON.

GETS ADMITTED TO THIS PRESTIGIOUS TALENT ACADEMY, WHERE ALSO AMY WINEHOUSE, THE KOOKS, KATIE MELUA AND MANY OTHER GREAT PERFORMERS GOT THEIR START.

JASPER PLAYS HIS 150TH CONCERT IN 28 MONTHS AND LEAVES

JASPER STARTS HIS STUDY AT THE BRIT SCHOOL AS ONE OF THE 40 STUDENTS OF THE MUSIC STRAND 2010.BELGIUM FOR LONDON.

RELEASE OF EP 'ALTREGO' (JASPER'S SIDE CHANNEL FOR PRODUCTION BASED MUSIC) MIXED AND CO-PRODUCED BY VALGEIR SIGURDSSON (BJÖRK, SIGUR ROS, FEIST, ETC.)

PERFORMS AS ALTREGO ON ROCK WERCHTER & PUKKELPOP 2014 AS WELL AS VARIOUS UK CLUBS AND FESTIVALS

REDISCOVERS HIS PASSION FOR POP MUSIC, SIGNS WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC AND MOVES TO AMSTERDAM

RELEASE ACOUSTIC EP 'INNOCENT DESIRES'. WHERE ERKENS OPTED FOR ELECTRONIC ELEMENTS AND BIG PRODUCTION ON ‘DRAWING A LINE’, HE NOW RETURNS BACK TO HIS ROOTS ON ‘INNOCENT DESIRES’. ERKENS RECORDED THIS ACOUSTIC EP WITH FRITZ SUNDERMANN, WHO ALSO PRODUCED HIS DEBUT ALBUM ‘THE BRIGHTER STORY’ AND THE SUCCESS SINGLE ‘WAITING LIKE A DOG’. THE FOUR TRACK EP IS RELEASED ON MAY 3RD.

IN MARCH, ERKENS DROPS A FOURTH AND FINAL SINGLE CALLED ‘YOUR WORDS (NOT MINE)’ WHILE ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF HIS 3^RD STUDIO ALBUM.

APRIL 23^RD BRINGS THE INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF ERKENS’ SELF-PRODUCED ALBUM ‘LIMBO TERMINAL’. 

LATER THAT YEAR, HE TOURED THE BENELUX AS A SUPPORT ACT OF LEGENDARY BRITISH BAND 10CC.