Alan Walker
Alan Olav Walker | |
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 Alan Walker in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 24 August 1997 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
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| Website | alanwalker |
Alan Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and music producer. He is best known for his song "Faded". The song got good ratings worldwide and became a platinum single in 14 countries. The Magazine DJ Mag said Walker was 27th on their Top 100 DJs list of 2019.[1][2][3][4]
In 2018, he released his music album Different Worlds.[5][6]
Career
[change | change source]2012–2016 - Career beginnings
[change | change source]In 2012, Walker started making music with his laptop and posting it to YouTube and SoundCloud.[7] In 2014, he released "Fade" which has more than 400 million views on YouTube.[8] He then released "Faded", which was a vocal version of Fade in 2015 with singer Iselin Solheim. "Faded" has more than 3 billion views on YouTube[9] and 1.5 billion streams on Spotify. He then released the following songs thereafter:
- "Sing Me to Sleep" with Iselin Solheim
- "Alone" with Noonie Bao
- "Routine" with David Whistle[10]
- "Alone Pt.II" with Ava Max[11]