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Royal Teen Prince’s Secret DJ Career Revealed

The royal, 19, is living an interesting double life.

Prince Emmanuel, the 19-year-old son of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, is pursuing a new career path. The royal teen has started releasing music under the DJ name “Vyntrix,” releasing two dance tracks on Spotify in the last month. The prince, who is also an avid saxophone player, appears to have launched his new musical venture earlier this year. Vyntrix’s Instagram doesn’t name him explicitly, instead describing the musical project as a “duo of two Artists” who “make deep house and tech house.” However, Prince Emmanuel is credited on Spotify as the composer of Vyntrix’s two songs, under the stage name “Emmanuel de Saxe”—an apparent play on his family name, de Saxe-Coburg, and his love of the saxophone. The royal DJ even got a boost from a recent royal connection: Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, a cousin of King Philippe, used one of Vyntrix’s songs in a video promoting his summer garden party. While it may not seem like a typical royal pursuit, as the third of four siblings, Prince Emmanuel isn’t the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. That title goes to his older sister, Princess Elisabeth, 23.