Sammy Virji WE1 | Tomorrowland 2025

Sammy Virji played the Freedom Stage at Tomorrowland on Sunday 20 July 2025, the third day of the festival's first weekend, on a stage bill shared with Argy pres. New World, Sara Landry and Hardkar b2b Angerfist. Tomorrowland 2025 was the nineteenth edition of the Belgian festival, staged at De Schorre in Boom over two weekends, 18 to 20 July and 25 to 27 July, under the theme Orbyz. For the 2025 edition of Tomorrowland, the Freedom Stage received a new roof of movable, individually controlled LED panels, with further LED screens around its edges creating a 360 degree effect. Sammy Virji, born Samuel Bashir Virji in London in 1996, grew up in Witney in Oxfordshire and left a biology degree at Newcastle University in his third year to concentrate on music. Sammy Virji started out releasing bassline in 2015 and turned towards UK garage in the late 2010s, with Conducta's Kiwi Rekords label issuing several of his garage records. Sammy Virji self-released his first album, Spice Up My Life, in 2020, and his second album, Same Day Cleaning, followed on Capitol Records on 19 September 2025. Sammy Virji's Freedom Stage booking at Tomorrowland 2025 was announced as the UK garage artist's first appearance at the festival.

Sources: thenocturnaltimes.com, edmtunes.com, en.wikipedia.org

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