Career
In June 2015, Ten Walls was dropped from several festivals and by his booking agency after making controversial comments comparing gay people to paedophiles in a Facebook post, and referring to the LGBT community as a "different breed". 2009-2012 Mario Basanov music awards. 2013–present: Breakthrough On 10 May 2013 Ten Walls released his debut European Parliament Gotham.
On 9 December 2013 he released his debut single "Requiem".
On 7 September 2014 he released the single "Walking with Elephants". On 10 September 2014 the song was at number 3 on the The Official Chart Update in the United Kingdom. On 14 September 2014 the song entered the United Kingdom Chart at number 6.
The song also peaked at number 3 on the United Kingdom Dance Chart and number 8 on the Scottish Chart. In June 2015, Ten Walls posted a rant on his Facebook pages condemning homosexuality and comparing it to pedophilia.
According to the Gay Star News the post stated: "I remember producing music for one Lithuanian musician, who tried to wash my brain that I don"t need to be so conservative and intolerant about.
When I asked him "what would you do if you realized that your 16-year-old son"s browny (anus) is ripped by his boyfriend?" Well he was silent. In the good 90s.. these people of different breed were fixed. One of my first gigs in Ireland, on my way to my hotel I saw a church with a fence decorated with hundreds of baby shoes.
Unfortunately a priest"s lie for many years was uncovered when children were massively raped.
Unfortunately the people of other breed continue to do it and everyone knows it but does nothing." As a result of his comments, he was dropped from several festival line-ups. His booking agency, Coda Music Agency, announced that they no longer represented him.
Fort Romeau pulled his support for him at London club venue Koko. The posts were later deleted after a backlash, and Ten Walls put out an apology claiming that he cancelled the festival dates himself.
Organizers of Dutch festival PITCH, Belgian festival Pukkelpop, the German festival Dockville, British festival, Creamfields and Spanish festival Sónar publicly confirmed that they cancelled Ten Walls performances due to his anti-gay statements.
The artist also received criticism from Lithuanian LGBT activists. 3 months after the post, in September 2015, Ten Walls issued a formal apology for the incident, calling it "completely out of character".
