Jonathan Ivo Gilles Vandenbroeck (Dutch: [ˈjoːnaːtɑɱ vɑndə(m)ˈbruk]; born 14 July 1981), known professionally as Milow, is a Belgian singer-songwriter.

[4] Milow spent a year as an exchange student in California, United States with the AFS Intercultural Programs in 1999–2000 at The Bishop’s School, where he wrote and performed songs.

He has often said in interviews that this time helped him improve his skills writing songs in English and that he always felt he would one day return to California.

Many Belgian bands and artists, like dEUS, The Black Box Revelation, Absynthe Minded, Evil Superstars, Novastar, Arid, Das Pop, Admiral Freebee and Goose, launched their career in the Rock Rally.

In the summer of 2005, Milow recorded his first album The Bigger Picture together with Nigel Powell (formerly of the British group Unbelievable Truth and now the drummer for Frank Turner).

On 28 June 2007, Milow was the opening act in the Pyramid Marquee on Rock Werchter, which launched his live career in Belgium.

In the summer of 2007, Milow started working on his second album Coming of Age with Belgian producer Jo Francken.

Milow opted for an acoustic guitar cover version of "Ayo Technology," a song originally written and recorded in 2007 by 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

In the next few months, Milow started playing this cover during live concerts and ended up recording a single version with producer Jo Francken and musician Tom Vanstiphout.

But Belgian singer-songwriter Milow's acoustic cover of this 50 Cent track, slowly making its way across the Atlantic, transforms Fitty's bawdy original into a riveting and tense ballad.

"[10] The sexually charged, tongue-in-cheek video for "Ayo Technology" proved to be a huge sensation online where it has received over 65 million plays on YouTube alone.

[14] In February 2009, for the second year in a row, Milow was a major winner of the Music Industry Awards in Belgium, winning five MIA Awards: Best Male Artist, Best Pop, Most Downloaded Artist, Best Music Video ("Ayo Technology"), and again Song of the Year ("Ayo Technology").

On 6 July 2009, on the way to Stuttgart to perform as support act for Jason Mraz, Milow's tour bus caught fire and burned down completely.

Five tracks on the album were mixed by Grammy Award-winning audio engineer Tony Maserati, known for his work with Jason Mraz, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Robbie Robertson and Sergio Mendes.

[21] "You and Me (In My Pocket)" has a music video (directed by longtime collaborator Isaac E. Gozin) that was shot in one single camera take.

Perez Hilton posted this video on his blog and wrote, "If you like Jason Mraz or Jack Johnson, then you will love this!!!

[5] Just like he predicted in the song ("Where I'm from they don't like dreamers, they're told to shut their mouth"), Milow was attacked by right-wing Flemish politicians on Twitter after an interview in newspaper De Standaard, in which he talked about the new album and about Belgian politics.

[23] On 27 and 28 April 2011, Milow performed two sold-out headline shows in a row in the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium.

[25] In February 2012, Milow held a five-night residency performing solo at the intimate Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, California.

Milow's first solo performance at Hotel Cafe was filmed by "Last Call with Carson Daly," and both "You Don't Know" and "You and Me (In My Pocket)" were broadcast on NBC on 9 February.

[26] Since the start of his career, Milow has been a DIY artist, acting as his own manager, publisher and releasing albums on his own label, Homerun Records.

Wanting to stray from his typical acoustic pop sounds, Milow decided to work with musicians Brian Kennedy and James Fauntleroy in pursuit of a more urban direction on his seventh album Modern Heart.

The results, chiefly produced by Marius de Vries and Joe Chiccarelli, took his sound wider into the tropical house and alternative R&B genres.

Upon its release, Modern Heart debuted at number two on the Belgian Albums Chart and became his fourth consecutive top ten entry in Germany.

In 2019, he participated in the sixth season of the German TV show Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert on VOX.