Alan Walker
Alan Olav Walker who you might know him by his stage name Alan Walker (or he has been around with the names like DJ Walkzz, W41k3r or even Walkzz) was born on 24th of August 1997 at Northampton , England but he is actually from the second biggest city in the Norway, Bergen.
When he was just 2 his parents decided to move out from England to Norway. He was a shy kid as growing up so he would never go out. This leaded him to play with computers a lot. He was a good graphic designer and a programmer while he was growing up. He never had interest in music until 2010 . At the age 13 his online friends told him to do some kind of music just because they liked his music taste. So he decided to learn how to produce music by watching YouTube videos.
As he grew up he was learning new things everyday. He used to listen to a DJ called David Whistle . He decided to reach out the producer who was in Italy to learn how he produces this kind of songs. Which was called EDM. He was inspired by so many artists. And he put together all of his favourite EDM artists ideas to create something new. He started with just his laptop. He used to computer software called FL Studio to create his own music. It was a hard program to use but he never gave up so he was finally able to come up with his first song Fade in 2014 which was a song that had no vocals in it. He put it on a YouTube channel that was visited a lot by EDM fans and It got a lot of attention. People liked it and It made Alan Walker more enthusiastic about his new passion music.
He put out 2 more songs later in the 2015. After that he signed in with a record label in Sweden. And he made a remastered version of Fade with vocals of Iselin Solheim and he called the track Faded. He put the music video to his very own channel in YouTube. That video just passed 1 Billion views on YouTube which was a great success for Walker.
After the song Faded become a massive international hit he decided dropped out of high school and just focusing on his own music. He got on so many show and live performances in 2015. Since he was a kid he was always into games and computers so that leaded him to perform his songs on game festivals. With his big success he met with so many artists and produces songs for them. He performed a live version of Faded with Zara Larsson at Germany Echo awards. While he was so popular in Europe he achieved to the Hot 30 list of NRJ which was only happened twice in the history.
He put out more songs later in 2016. The song called Alone got lots of attention again and he was getting more successful and familiar everyday. He was getting interviewed a lot. So when he is performing he always wears a hoodie and never shows his whole face. He wants to have characteristics of an Anonymous Hacker and a computer programmer. And he doesn't want to known a lot by his face so he can have a normal life as a teen. When he first started using Instagram he never posted his pictures . As he gets more attention he said that he wants have an album. But he just doesn't know when will It be. He wants to keep that secret vibe.
He supported Rihanna' ANTI WORLD TOUR by joining in some European locations. And he had his own headlining tour 2016. He still continues to travel all around the globe and perform songs for his fans .As he doing this shows he keeps producing songs in the House, Tropical House ,EDM and Synth Pop. He became number 1 on 7 countries and won awards.
Now he grow up and not that kid who was sharing his music at YouTube, now he produces music for himself and other artists, travels all around the world to share his music and do what he likes to do. Hope he is going to be bigger producer or songwriter in future.
