You can trace out the details related to his professional career on his Wikipedia profile. Born in Boxtel, Gerwen started to play darts at the age of 13 years.

For his profession, since 2002, he started playing darts and made his BDO debut in 2005. 

Furthermore, not much is known about Michael’s family, as well as his parents as of now, as the player remains pretty private about his personal life.