Alan Walker was born in Northampton, England, on August 24, 1997, and is from Bergen, Norway. Now owned by Sony Music, he was an artist under No Copyright Sounds in the UK in his early days. NCS was founded by Billy Woodford in 2013 and focuses on electronic music. The genres are progressive house and electro house.
Walker was born in Northampton, England, and moved to Bergen, Norway, with his Norwegian mother and British father when he was two years old. Growing up in the digital age, Walker became interested in computers and was later drawn to programming and graphic design. I don’t have any musical background and just relied on watching YouTube videos to teach myself. He started learning and trying to make music at the age of 14, and made 30 to 40 songs using a laptop.
Personal experience
1. In November 2014, he made his debut by releasing his personal electronic music work "Fade" on YouTube.
2. In December 2015, he released his first official single "Faded" through Sony Music. The song's MV has exceeded 1.2 billion views on YouTube.
3. In June 2016, the electronic single "Sing Me To Sleep" [2] with vocal accompaniment was released. On November 6 of the same year, he won the "Best Norwegian Artist" award at the MTV European Music Awards.
4. On February 22, 2017, "Faded" was shortlisted for the "British Single of the Year" award at the 37th Brit Awards. In May of the same year, the first electronic music work "Tired" with male vocal accompaniment was released.
5. In 2018, the first studio album "Different World" was released.
6. On January 5, 2017, he won the "Western Singer of the Year" and "Western Song of the Year" awards at the 12th Taiwan KKBOX Digital Music Chart.
7. In January 2018, he served as the global partner of Liquid State, an international electronic music label jointly established by Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Sony Music Entertainment. ?
8. On March 6, 2020, Alan Walker teamed up with Norwegian electronic music producer K-391 and the original song producer Ahrix to launch a new single "End of Time" (The end of time).
Extended information:
Walker was originally known as "DJ Walkzz". Eventually he adopted his own name, Alan Walker, as his stage name. The logo includes his initials "A" and "W" to make it easier to see when he performs concerts. Hoodies and masks were also used to create a concept similar to the black camp, creating the rest of the image on stage.
Walker signed a contract with Sony Music Sweden and released his first single "The Lost World" on December 4, 2015.
"The Lost World" has exceeded 2 billion views on YouTube and has 13.65 million likes, ranking among the top 10 most-liked YouTube videos. The world's leading DJ Tiasto, famous DJ Dash Berlin and Hardwell also produced remixes for "The Lost World".
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