DJ Encore was born in 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His first single I See Right Through To You, written for the TV-show Big Brother, was released March 2001 and featured the Danish female vocalist Engelina. In October 2001 their album Intuition was released.

In 2002 Andreas and Engelina split up, later she joined the girl pop trio, Sha Li Mar.

Under the name of Saphire, DJ Encore in 2003 released another track for the TV-show Big Brother, called There's Someone Watching. This time he had Linnéa Handberg as the female vocalist.

In 2005 he released a new single called You Can Walk On Water with new Swedish vocalist Johanna Stedt. The song was a cover of the Danish band Catch's hit Walk On Water.