Dan-W, was born in Coventry the 5th January 1988. Music was always a passion of his at a young age learning to DJ while he was only 14 years old, he started to take music more serious when he turned 18 and started to take music business at college so he could learn more about the industry. So in 2006 Dan, founded what is now known as Influential Entertainment a Coventry based urban record label that helps support local urban talent.

Dan has always had his own unique style of hip-hop music with his very clear British accent on his tracks he was always going to be set apart from a lot of other artists making urban music. He always had a pop / dance blend to his music but since he raps he will always get put into the rap / hip-hop category aswell. So Dan's music is came to be called Hip-Pop by many of his listeners and to this day it seems to be working for him.

Dan has performed at many shows up and down the country to small crowds and to attendances of 10,000+. Dan as done shows like club performances nationwide to even getting on the main stage at bigger festivals. He has headlined his own shows but has recently started supporting number of mainstream acts including artists like, Tinie Tempah, N-Dubz, Professor Green, Giggs, Lethal B, Akala, Fugative, Griminal, Ironik, Aggro Santos and many more.

Early 2011 Dan's mixtape called "Status Update" was nominated for "Best Hip-Hop Mixtape 2010" by the Official Mixtape Awards. It was released May 2010 and after a promotion complain on UStream, Twitter and Facebook it had over a 100 downloads within the first minute of release. Then over 1000 downloads within the first hour, to this day it has 20,000 plus downloads.

Dan-W is still only at the start of his music career with loads more music on the way expect to hear the phase "Dan Who?" alot more.