Kygo

Tags: electronic , chillout , House

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 1991), commonly known by his stage name Kygo, is a Norwegian musician and remixer.
He is best known for his remix of the track "I See Fire", which has been played 8 million times on Soundcloud and around 40 million times on YouTube. He has accumulated over 80 million views on his music on Soundcloud and YouTube. After a break-through in 2014, Kygo was asked by Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin to create a remix for the song "Midnight"

Kygo started to learn to play the piano at age six through lessons. He decided to have a go at remixes and creating electronic music after discovering Avicii at age 15-16. After receiving over 80 million hits on YouTube and Soundcloud, Kygo was contacted by both Avicii and Chris Martin of Coldplay to create official remixes of one the artists' songs.

His remix of "I See Fire" entered Romania's Top 40 and has remained there for 14 weeks, peaking at Number 2 as of June 3rd, 2014.

When creating/remixing music Kygo uses Logic Studio
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