Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll

Kygo
Kygo performing at the 2016 Veld Music Festival in Toronto
Background information
Birth name	Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll
Born	(1991-09-11) 11 September 1991 (age 26) Singapore
Origin	Bergen, Norway
Genres	Deep house tropical house downtempo progressive house
Occupation(s)	DJ songwriter record producer musician
Instruments	Digital audio workstation piano keyboard
Years active	2009 2012–present
Labels	Ultra RCA
Associated acts	Labrinth Mark Ralph Dillon Francis Conrad Sewell Parson James Maty Noyes John Legend Foxes Fifth Harmony Kodaline Ella Henderson Julia Michaels Selena Gomez Ellie Goulding
Website	kygomusic.com

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈçyːrə ˈgøːrvel dɑːl]; born 11 September 1991), better known by his stage name Kygo (/kaɪɡoʊ/;Norwegian pronunciation: [kyːɡuː], stylized as KYGO and ※), is a Norwegian DJ, songwriter, record producer and musician.

He garnered international attention with his remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran, which has received over 55 million plays on SoundCloud and 65 million views on YouTube and his single "Firestone" which has over 450 million views on YouTube with an additional 530 million plays on the music streaming service Spotify, as of August 2017. Kygo has accumulated over 1 billion views on his music on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Kygo has since released several singles, such as "Stole the Show", "Here for You", "Stay", and "It Ain't Me", which have debuted on several international charts. Kygo's debut album Cloud Nine was released on 13 May 2016. He 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.