Kygo

Kygo
Kygo at Veld Music Festival 2016 in Toronto
Background information
Birth name	Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll
Born	(1991-09-11) 11 September 1991 (age 25) Singapore
Origin	Bergen, Norway
Genres	Deep house tropical house downtempo progressive house
Occupation(s)	DJ record producer songwriter musician
Instruments	Digital audio workstation piano keyboard
Years active	2009 2012–present
Labels	Sony Interscope Ultra RCA
Associated acts	Parson James Tom Odell Kodaline Conrad Sewell John Legend James Vincent McMorrow Foxes RHODES Matt Corby Maty Noyes Will Heard Labrinth Julia Michaels Angus & Julia Stone Mark Ralph Kyla La Grange Marvin Gaye Dillon Francis Ella Henderson Fifth Harmony Selena Gomez
Website	kygomusic.com

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (Norwegian pronunciation: ['ɕyʷ:ɾə 'gø:rvɛɫ̪ daːɫ̪]; born 11 September 1991), commonly known by his stage name Kygo (sometimes stylized as KYGO), is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, songwriter and musician. He garnered international attention with his remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran, which has received over 50 million plays on SoundCloud and 65 million views on YouTube and his single "Firestone" which has over 400 million views on YouTube with an additional 400 million plays on the music streaming service Spotify, as of August 2016. Kygo has accumulated over 300 million views on his music on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Kygo has since released several singles, such as "ID", "Stole the Show", "Here for You", and "Stay", which have debuted on several international charts. Kygo's debut studio album, Cloud Nine, was released on 13 May 2016. Kygo made history on 21 August 2016 at the 2016 Rio Olympics, when he became the first house music producer to perform at an Olympics closing ceremony.

Kygo was born 11 September 1991 in Singapore, the son of Kjersti Gjerde a dentist and Lars Gørvell-Dahll a worker in the maritime industry. He has an older stepbrother Mads, two older sisters Johanne and Jenny, and a younger half-brother Sondre. During his younger years, he "liv[ed] travel[ed] with his family in Brazil, Japan, Kenya and Egypt."

Kygo started getting piano lessons at the age of 6. He stopped when he was 15 or 16 and started producing music with Logic Studio and a MIDI keyboard while watching several tutorials on YouTube. When he decided to pursue music full-time he was halfway through a degree in business and finance at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.