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English-Norwegian music producer and DJ

Alan Walker
Walker in 2016

Walker in 2016
Background information
Birth proper name Alan Olav Walker
Also known as DJ Walkzz
Born (1997-08-24) 24 August 1997 (historic period 24) [i]
Northampton, England
Origin Bergen, Norway
Genres
  • trap
  • time to come bass
  • electro house
  • futurity house
  • progressive house
  • big room house[2]
Occupation(southward)
  • DJ
  • tape producer
  • YouTuber
Years agile 2012–present
Labels
  • MER
  • Sony
  • RCA
  • NCS (formerly)[3]
  • Ultra
  • Spinnin' Records (Controversia) All Effectually The World
Website alanwalker.com
walkergaming.com
YouTube data
Channels
  • Alan Walker
  • Walker Gaming
Years active 2012–present

Musical artist

Alan Olav Walker (born 24 Baronial 1997) is a British-Norwegian DJ, YouTuber and record producer primarily known for the critically acclaimed single "Faded" (2015), which was certified platinum in 14 countries. He has also made several songs including "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone", "Darkside", and "On My Way", all of which attracted millions of views on YouTube.

In early on 2017, Walker's channel emerged as the most subscribed YouTube channel registered in Norway, with and so 4.5 million subscribers. He also had the most views of Norwegian creators with an estimate 11.i billion views equally of 21 February 2022.

Early on life

Alan Olav Walker was built-in on 24 August 1997 in Northampton, England, to Anglo-Scottish British Philip Alan Walker, and his Norwegian wife Hilde Omdal Walker. As a result, by his international parental inheritance, he was granted dual citizenship from both the United Kingdom and Kingdom of norway.[4] [five] [6]

He grew upwardly with two siblings, an elder sis named Camilla, who was also born in England; and a younger brother named Andreas, who was born in Norway. At the age of 2, along with his family, he moved to Bergen.[2] [seven] Walker later establish interest in computers, a hobby which has driven him deeper to computing graphical design, and musical programming. He initially had no musical background, but was able to teach himself by watching YouTube tutorials based on musical production.[8] [ix]

Career

2012–2016: Career beginnings and breakthrough

In 2012, Walker was listening to a song by Italian DJ David Whistle (also known equally DJ Ness) and reached out to him to find out how he produced his music. He was inspired by EDM producers K-391 and Ahrix, and by film composers like Hans Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky.[10] He started producing his music on his laptop using FL Studio. In July 2012, with the assistance and feedback from his fans online, he began pursuing his music product career and slowly began posting his music to YouTube and SoundCloud. Starting as a bedchamber producer, he was better known as DJ Walkzz before signing a tape deal and releasing his debut single in 2014.

Walker released the track "Fade" on 17 August 2014.[xi] The rails gained attending subsequently its re-release via the record label NoCopyrightSounds on 19 Nov 2014.[12] Walker stated that the creation of the track was inspired by Thousand-391 and Ahrix, whose tracks were also picked upwardly by the record characterization. The runway has over 400 million views on YouTube,[thirteen] 115 1000000 plays on Spotify,[14] and 41 meg streams on SoundCloud.[15] The tracks "Spectre" and "Forcefulness" followed in 2015.

Walker signed with MER Musikk under Sony Music Sweden and released his next single, "Faded", a remastered vocal version of "Fade". Information technology was released on 8 Dec 2015 and featured uncredited Naustdal pop vocaliser Iselin Solheim.[16] The unmarried topped the year-cease charts in Republic of austria, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden, iTunes charts in 33 countries, every bit well as entering acme x in Spotify Global Chart. The music video on YouTube has over iii.ii billion views and 24 million likes,[17] placing it among the top 10 most-liked YouTube videos. It has over ane.ane billion plays on Spotify,[18] and is also i of the Acme 10 Nigh Shazamed tracks of 2016.[19] The unmarried also received official remixes from Tiësto,[20] Dash Berlin, and Hardwell. He afterwards released an acoustic "restrung" version of the song, with all the EDM elements taken out.[21]

2016 Stavernfestivalen Stavernfestivalen performance in Norway.

Stavernfestivalen festival held past Walker in Norway 2016, an example of many of his performances.

Walker quit high school in Jan to pursue his music career.[22] On 27 February, Walker fabricated his performance debut at the Winter X Games in Oslo, where he performed 15 tracks including the song "Faded" together with Iselin Solheim.[23] [24] Past March, Walker had produced xxx to 40 songs in total, simply "Faded" marks his first single with Sony Music Sweden, and the first to reach such global success.[19] On 7 April, Walker teamed up with Zara Larsson at the Echo Awards in Germany. Together they performed each other'due south songs "Faded" and "Never Forget You lot".[25] Four weeks previously, he accomplished the start place on NRJ Euro Hot 30 for the kickoff time, which only has been achieved by one other Norwegian artist, Kygo.[26]

The single "Sing Me to Sleep" was released on 3 June, featuring female vocalist Iselin Solheim, the aforementioned vocalizer as in "Faded". The song topped iTunes charts in seven countries. Its music video on YouTube has over 570 million views,[27] and it also reached 250 million plays on Spotify.[28] Some other single titled "Alone" was likewise released on ii December of that same twelvemonth, incoperating uncredited Swedish singer Noonie Bao.[29] The music video on YouTube has over 1 billion views,[30] the track also gained over 390 one thousand thousand plays on Spotify.[31] The song was described as "the last piece of a trilogy consisting of 'Faded', 'Sing Me To Sleep' and 'Alone'" by Gunnar Greeve, Walker's manager and co-writer for the single.[32]

On 21 and 22 December, Walker held the concert "Alan Walker is Heading Home" in his hometown Bergen at USF Verftet, where he performed 16 songs and tracks together with Angelina Jordan, Marius Samuelsen, Alexandra Rotan, Yosef Wolde-Mariam, and Tove Styrke every bit singers.[33] [34] The concert was officially live-streamed on YouTube.[35] He premiered several unreleased tracks, including a restrung version of "Sing Me to Sleep", as well as "Heading Home", the latter of which was beginning performed during his debut at Winter X Games. The song "The Spectre", a remastered version of his before track "Spectre", was also performed during the concert.

On 23 Dec, Walker released the video for the unmarried "Routine", which premiered on his concert in Bergen two days before and on some concerts on the "Walker Bout". The runway was made in collaboration with David Whistle. Its music video on YouTube has over 58 one thousand thousand views,[36] and 47 1000000 plays on Spotify.[37]

2017–present: Dissimilar World, World of Walker and other projects

At the beginning of 2017, Walker's YouTube channel became the most subscribed channel registered in Kingdom of norway, after passing almost 4.5 million subscribers, and had the most views amidst Norwegian YouTubers at effectually 7.seven billion views equally of 25 January 2020.[38] [ii] Betwixt Feb and April, he toured around America including attending the Euphoria Festival in Texas.[39] In 2019, Alan's music video ''Diamond Heart'' received a nomination for All-time Cinematography at the Berlin Music Video Awards.[twoscore] His music video for ''Heading Abode'' featuring Ruben appears on the festival'due south 2021 Silver Screenings selection listing.[41]

Artistic paradigm

Walker was originally known as "DJ Walkzz" or "Walkzz" when he started out. He ended up using his real name, Alan Walker, every bit his creative person proper noun after signing upwards with a record label. He designed his logo in 2013, a symbol consisting of intertwined messages "A" and "W" which are the initials of his name. He uses a hoodie and face mask when he performs on stage. When asked why he uses a mask during an interview by NRK, he stated that "It is to proceed a low profile while maintaining the mental image they accept given me. I think information technology's pretty absurd. A footling twist that makes people ask themselves questions nearly who actually is the person behind Alan Walker."[42] On an episode of his Unmasked serial, he stated that "The mask is more of a sign and a symbol of unity and being alike each other, rather than me being different."[43] [44]

Discography

  • Dissimilar Globe (2018)
  • Earth of Walker (2021)

Tour

Headlining

  • Walker Tour (2016–2018)
  • Earth of Walker Tour (2018)
  • Dissimilar World Tour (2018–2019)[45]
  • Aviation Tour (2019)

Supporting

  • Rihanna – Anti Earth Tour (2016)[46]
  • Justin Bieber – Purpose World Tour (2017)[47]
  • Martin Garrix – Thursdays at Ushuaïa[48]

Accolades

Walker was nominated for a wide multifariousness of accolades. He won most of them including Årets Musikk Music of the Year from Gullsnutten; All-time Norwegian Act at MTV Europe Music Awards, European Border Breakers Award and Public Choice Honor from EBBA Awards '17; Best New Talent at WDM Radio Awards and Swiss Music Awards; Eksportprisen '16 , The Export Prize 'sixteen at Spellemannprisen and Music Norway; Best Norwegian Act from MTV Europe Music Awards; Best Breakthrough Artist as awarded past International Dance Music Awards; All-time Norwegian Act by MTV Europe Music Awards; likewise as Årets Spellemann Spellemann of the Yr from Spellemannprisen '18. His song, "Faded" was awarded The Cannes Lions Honor at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Best International Hit from Eska Music Awards, and Spellemannprisen '16's Årets Låt Song of the Twelvemonth, and the Best Western Creative person of the Year. At the NRJ Music Awards Norge, the song "Sing Me to Sleep" won the Årets Norske Låt Norwegian Song of the Yr.[49]

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External links

  • Official website
  • Alan Walker at IMDb
  • Alan Walker's channel on YouTube

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