How Old Is Franky Rizardo? Age, Real Name, FLOW, LTF Records and His 2026 Shows

Franky Rizardo is 38 years old, born Frank Ketelaar on 1 June 1988 in the Netherlands. Here is his real name, LTF Records, the FLOW brand's Ziggo Dome, Pacha Ibiza and ADE year, and every announced show from November 2026 into 2027.

Written By Techno Airlines

Published November 4, 2026

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Franky Rizardo is 38 years old. He was born Frank Ketelaar on 1 June 1988 in the Netherlands, so he turned 38 in June 2026 and will be 39 next summer. The Dutch house DJ, LTF Records founder and face of the FLOW events brand reached that age in the same year he sold out the Ziggo Dome, opened a Pacha Ibiza residency and headlined the Gashouder at ADE.

If you searched for Franky Rizardo leeftijd, idade, edad, età or Alter, the answer is the same in every language: he was born on 1 June 1988 and is 38 as of November 2026.

How old is Franky Rizardo, and what is his real name?

Franky Rizardo’s real name is Frank Ketelaar. The Discogs artist entry and the booking profiles used by venues such as Mallorca.com give the same birth date, 1 June 1988, and the same country, the Netherlands. He has never published a hometown in his official biographies, so we are not going to guess one. ADE’s artist page introduces him as “the most internationally booked DJ from The Netherlands”. He has only ever used one name: every release from his 2006 debut, a “Soca Funk EP” with a young Hardwell, to this year’s “Shinjuku” is credited to Franky Rizardo.

Franky Rizardo’s age in context

At 38 he sits exactly on the median age our top DJs in 2026 analysis found among solo DJs with verified birth dates. Here is how he compares with the people he is most often booked alongside.

DJ	Born	Age reached in 2026
John Summit	29 July 1994	32
Dom Dolla	18 January 1992	34
Franky Rizardo	1 June 1988	38
Jamie Jones	28 October 1980	46
Solomun	1975	51
Marco Carola	7 February 1975	51

Comparison dates come from Wikipedia and our Dom Dolla profile. The gap that matters is with Marco Carola: Rizardo has spent years playing alongside the Music On founder, thirteen years his senior, and that association shaped his path to Ibiza.

From Club Manhattan to Defected: the career in short

His booking biographies describe an early residency at Club Manhattan and a weekly show on the Dutch station SLAM!FM, and Discogs lists his first records in 2006 and 2007. By 2010 he was collaborating with Hardwell on Revealed Recordings, but he turned away from big-room sounds almost at once: “Caracoles” on Defected in 2011 started a decade-long relationship with the label, followed by “On My Own” with Tess Leah, the “Real Time EP” and “Troubleman EP”.

The record people still ask about is “Same Man”. Released on Defected in March 2017 as the lead single from his “In The House” compilation, it went to number one on the Beatport tech house chart and is built around a 1983 B Beat Girls vocal. Around the same time he became what the Ibiza press calls “a core member of the Music On family”, the crew around Marco Carola that gave him regular Ibiza slots.

LTF Records and the 2026 releases

LTF Records, short for Listen To Flow, is his own label. Some biographies date it to 2015, but Discogs puts the first catalogue number, the “Primrose EP”, in 2020, and that is when the release schedule begins. Almost everything since has come out on LTF: “Oberhain”, “Roxy’s Sweat”, “Make My Body Move” with Cara Melin and “Baile De Fantome”. By 2025 the label was, according to ADE, one of Beatport’s top ten best-selling house labels of the year.

2026 has been about one track. “Shinjuku”, released on 20 March after months of circulating on TikTok, is his biggest crossover record to date; Mixmag NL counted more than 12 million TikTok views within days of release. LTF also put out “Zero Azúcar” and “Feel” earlier in the year.

What is FLOW, and what happened in 2026?

FLOW is the umbrella for everything Rizardo curates himself: a weekly radio show past 600 episodes, the label name, and a touring party that has visited Cali, Medellín, New York, Lima and Miami. ADE’s listings give two start dates, 2011 for the concept and 2015 for the events brand. 2026 was its biggest year by some distance:

More To Life, Ziggo Dome, 16 January 2026. His first solo arena show, sold out, with ADE quoting 15,000 people in the room; the same concept went to Coachella in April.
FLOW at Pacha Ibiza. His first Ibiza residency: four Tuesdays from 28 April to 19 May, with Vintage Culture on opening night and a five-hour solo set on 5 May, plus 2 July and a closing party on 18 August.
Gashouder presents Franky Rizardo FLOW, 24 October 2026. A sold-out ADE daytime show in the reopened Gashouder, with Cloonee, Mason Collective, AAT b2b Easttown and Alexia before his three-hour closing set. It was one of the few dance bookings in the venue’s reopening programme.

Franky Rizardo shows: November 2026 to 2027

Announced dates as of 4 November 2026, from his Resident Advisor listing and promoters’ pages:

6 to 8 November: EDC Orlando, Florida
20 November: Time Warp New York, Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the same weekend’s Time Warp Mexico bill
3 December: FLOW extended set, The Concourse Project, Austin
12 December: FLOW Lima, Peru
26 December to 2 January: Réveillon Carneiros, Brazil
8 to 10 January 2027: Buena Vida Beach, Cartagena
17 to 21 March 2027: SXM Festival, Saint Martin
7 August 2027: DEPOT Live at Cardiff Castle, headline open-air show
14 to 15 August 2027: Loveland Festival, Amsterdam
26 to 29 August 2027: Creamfields, Daresbury

A 2027 Pacha residency, a second Ziggo Dome show and the full 2027 FLOW calendar have not been announced yet.

What is Franky Rizardo’s net worth?

There is no reliable public figure. No trade outlet has published a credible estimate, and the celebrity finance sites either have nothing or refer to other people called Franky. What is public: he owns his label, FLOW ran a Pacha residency and an arena show in the same year, and “Shinjuku” is his biggest crossover record. Enough to say the business is healthy, not enough to put a number on it.

FAQ

How old is Franky Rizardo?

38. He was born on 1 June 1988 and turns 39 in June 2027.

What is Franky Rizardo’s real name?

Frank Ketelaar. He has always released music as Franky Rizardo.

What is LTF Records?

His own Amsterdam-based house label, short for Listen To Flow. Discogs dates its first release to 2020, and it was one of Beatport’s top ten best-selling house labels in 2025.