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MARCEL PRIVATELY:
There’s another version of me as I am an identical twin.
As a four-year-old boy my only dream was to become a professional football player. After many hours of practise and football selections for FC Utrecht, Feyenoord and local teams, I decided to drop out…
… also because most of my time was spent on my other love: mixing of music. Together with my two turntables and mix panel I toured through the country.
Any money I earned with this, was spent straight away at the import record store of Kareltje in Utrecht.
At the age of eighteen I bought my first car for 100,- guilders.
In 1998, I participated in the Rainforest Challenge in the jungle of Malaysia, you could say it was Camel Trophy new style.
The year after, I went to Ghana with Julia Samuel and David Robbertson for a Dutch TV channel called Veronica. This trip, called ‘drive against malaria’, gained much fame in the media and I personally think this was one of the most impressive trips. Not because of the media attention nor the beautiful nature, but because of our visits to local hospitals. The encounters with patients who were infected with malaria and/or HIV deeply touched me.
Throughout the years I have travelled through many countries and been to many continents. My network in the travel and event industry is widespread, as is my network in the photography and film industry.