Phatt
singer/songwriter
Phatt is a Dutch singer, songwriter and producer. He generally performs under his stage name and writes, composes and produces under his real name, Ricardo Burgrust.
Phatt has performed and worked with international artists such as Chaka Khan, Candy Dulfer and Rick Ross. Until 2010, Phatt was a member of the RMXCRW, pronounced as RemixCrew. With the RMXCRW, Phatt toured the world and had several hit songs.
Biography
Phatt grew up in the Netherlands. He started singing in a choir when he was six years old. He was inspired by his cousin, who was a pop star in Portugal. Phatt's mother is from Portugal, and his father is from Suriname, in South America.
When he was a teenager, Phatt went to a high school that specializes in music and dance, and he studied singing at the conservatory of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
“Phatt” enters the record as singer/songwriter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Phatt, singer and songwriter can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2222277. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010.
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