Kyrre GÃÆ'¸rvell-Dahll ( Norway: Ã, ['kyrre' gÃÆ'¸: rvell d? h: ll] , born September 11, 1991), better known by his stage name Kygo ( ; Norwegian: Ã, ['ky: uu] , written as KYGO and ? ), is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, musician and songwriter.
He received international attention with a remix of "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran, who has received more than 55 million dramas in SoundCloud and 65 million views on YouTube and the single "Firestone" which has more than 500 million views on YouTube with an additional 560 million playing in the Spotify music streaming service, in August 2017. Kygo has amassed over 2.5 billion views of music on SoundCloud and YouTube.
Kygo has released several singles, such as "Stole the Show", "Here for You", "Stay", and "It Is not Me", which has debuted on several international charts. Kygo Cloud Nine's debut album was released on May 13, 2016. He made history on August 21, 2016 at the 2016 Rio Olympics, when he became the first home music producer to perform at the Olympic closing ceremony. In March 2018, Billboard named Kygo as number three in the 2018 ranking of their dance musician Billboard Dance 100.
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Early life and career
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Kygo was born September 11, 1991 as a foreigner in Singapore, the son of Kjersti Gjerde, a dentist, and Lars GÃÆ'¸rvell-Dahll, an overseas worker in the maritime industry. She has an older sister Mads, two older sisters Johanne and Jenny, and Sondre's younger stepbrother. During his childhood, he lived and traveled with his family in Brazil, Japan, Kenya and Egypt.
Kygo started getting piano lessons at the age of 6 years. He quit when he was 15 or 16 years old and started producing music with Logic Studio and MIDI keyboard while watching some tutorials on YouTube. When he decided to pursue full-time music, he was halfway to business and finance at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has quoted Swedish DJ Avicii as his main inspiration.
2014: Breakthrough
On May 15, 2013, Kygo released her first single titled "Epsilon" on the record label Romania Ensis Records. After that, on December 1, 2014, he released the single "Firestone", featuring vocals from Conrad (mononim to Conrad Sewell), which earned international recognition and debuted on several charts worldwide. After receiving over 80 million views on YouTube and SoundCloud, Kygo was contacted by Avicii and by Chris Martin from Coldplay to make remixes of the song "Midnight". He also supports Avicii at the Findings Festival in Oslo, Norway, in 2014. On September 19, 2014, it has been confirmed that Kygo will replace Avicii on the main stage at TomorrowWorld, due to Avicii's health problems.
She is also featured in an interview for Billboard magazine, where she talks with writer Matt Medved about remixes to Diplo and Coldplay, and talks about upcoming touring in North America. In July 2014, Kygo entered into a partnership with the EDM lifestyle, Electric Family, to produce a collaborative bracelet that is 100% of the proceeds donated to MÃÆ' Â © decins Sans FrontiÃÆ'¨res. In the same month, he signed a record label contract with Sony International and Ultra Music.
2015-2016: Cloud Nine and Kygo Life AS
In February 2015, the song "ID" Kygo song is shown in the official trailer for Ultra Music Festival. The same track is also featured on FIFA 16 , a popular association football video game by EA Sports. In August 2015, Kygo was the main character at Lollapalooza in Chicago, one of the largest music festivals in the world. He made his television debut in the US on The Late Late Show with James Corden in October 2015.
On March 21, 2015, she released her second single, titled "Stole the Show", featuring Parson James, who on April 11, 2015, has 1.4 million online streams. On July 31, 2015, she released her third single, "Nothing Left", featuring Will Heard. "Nothing Left" reached number one on the Norwegian Singles Chart. On September 4, 2015, he released his fourth single, titled "Here for You", featuring Ella Henderson, who was revealed to be the vocal version of the song "ID" which was released as part of the Ultra Music Festival.
Three months later, her third single, "Stay", was produced with fellow Norwegian record producer William Larsen and featured vocals by Maty Noyes, released on December 4, 2015. In December 2015, Kygo became the fastest artist in history to reach 1 billion streams in Spotify
After the release of the single, Kygo announced that he embarked on a world tour to promote his debut album. Soon after, he revealed that his debut studio album will be released on February 19, 2016, but was postponed. He, on the other hand, released a teaser of the songs he did that was on his debut album and released it on SoundCloud.
In early March 2016, Kygo announced that his debut studio album will be released on May 13, 2016, under the title Cloud Nine . He also announced that he will release three promotional singles, leading to the release of the album. The first of these singles, released March 18, 2016, is titled "Fragile", which features vocals and collaborates with Labrinth. The second single came out on April 1, 2016, and was called "Raging", which featured vocals from Irish band Kodaline and also co-written by James Bay. The third and final single was released on April 22, 2016 and was titled "I'm In Love", featuring vocals from James Vincent McMorrow.
The debut studio album Kygo was released on May 13, 2016. Other collaborations revealed include Parson James, Tom Odell, Kodaline, Conrad Sewell, Legend John, James Vincent McMorrow, Foxes, Rhodes, Matt Corby, Maty Noyes, Julia Michaels and Angus and Julia Stone.
Kygo launched a new lifestyle brand named Kygo Life on August 17, 2016. This brand consists of two collections of fashion and casual clothing, in addition to hardware such as headphones. Kygo Life is currently only available in Europe, the United States and Canada.
She performed "Carry Me" with American singer and songwriter Julia Michaels at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics on August 21 at the MaracanÃÆ'Â £ Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, as part of a segment that promotes the launch of the new Olympic channel after the Games.
2017-2018: Stargazing and Children - Children in Love
On February 9, 2017, Kygo posted a snapshot of his collaboration with American singer and actress Selena Gomez. They confirmed their single titled "It Is not Me", via their social media account on February 13, 2017. The song was released on February 16, 2017. The song is the main single from the first EP of Kygo, Stargazing
On April 28, 2017, Kygo released their second single from EP, "First Time", with British singer Ellie Goulding.
On September 15, 2017, Kygo re-released U2's song "You're The Best Thing About Me", which was also released as a collaboration single with the band.
On October 19, 2017, Kygo announced via Facebook that her second studio album called Kids in Love , which was released on November 3rd. On October 20, 2017, he released the single song and the main title "Kids in Love", featuring The Night Game. Shortly after the release of the album, Kygo announced the Children's Love Tour. On March 16, 2018, Kygo released "Remind Me to Forget", a song featuring American singer Miguel, as the third single from the album, following "Foreigner".
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Personal life
Kyrre is in a relationship with Maren Platou, known publicly since March 2016. He is a Manchester United fan.
Stage name
Kygo's artist name can be pronounced as ( Norwegian pronunciation: Ã, [ky :? U:] ) for Norwegian speakers , and for English speakers. Both pronunciations can be used interchangeably. Kyrre got the idea for his stage name through the name of the user he received in high school for hislearning digital learning platform . This service uses parts of its name to make a nickname, thereof "Ky-" stands for the first two letters in the given name "Kyrre", and "-go" for the first two letters in the last name "GÃÆ'¸rvell- Dahll". The letters ÃÆ'¸ are usually replaced with the letter o in computing. In an interview with the newspaper Fanaposten , Kyrre was quoted; "Kygo [as artist's name] is absolutely perfect.It's easy to say, both in Norwegian and English. [And] I do not need to change the artist's name [in the future]".
Philanthropy
In June 2016, NRK said that Kygo "gave 50 000 USD [...] of the profits [his festival on 20 August]" to Frank Mugisha; Kygo is quoted: "Everyone should be allowed to live with someone's sexual orientation.That is not the situation in Uganda and some other countries around the world".
Discography
Studio album
- Cloud Nine (2016)
- Children fall in love (2017)
Moviesography
- Movies
- Television
Tour
- Endless Summer Tour (2014)
- Cloud Nine Tour (2016)
- Kids in Love Tour (2018)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Official website
- Kygo in SoundCloud
- Kygo in IMDb
- kygolife.com Official brand website
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