Alan Walker was born in Northampton on 24^th august 1997 from English father, Philip, and Norwegian mother, Hilde. At the age of two he moved with his family to the Norwegian city of Bergen, where he still resides. At the age of 15 he started producing music on his computer and publishing it online through YouTube and SoundCloud, attracting the attention of record companies. In 2012 Alan Walker contacted the Italian Dj David Whistle (Dj Ness) In July 2012, with the help and feedback of his online fans, he began pursuing his career as a music producer and slowly began publishing his music on YouTube and SoundCloud; he was known as DJ Walkzz before signing a record deal.

On August 17, 2014 Walker released his first song FADE. The track soon had over two hundred million views on YouTube, 79 million on Spotify and 35 million streams on Soundcloud.

From then on every year he released several songs like FORCE and SPECTRE in 2015; also in the same year he composed the song that made him reach the maximum of his success: FADED, track written and produced by Alan Walker, Anders Froen and Gunnar Greve Pettersen.The song does not have a rhythm neither too fast nor too slow. The videoclip, directed by Rikkard and Tobias Häggbom, was shot in several locations in Estonia including: Linnahall, Tallinn, Vasalemma, Paldiski and Keila. The actor who plays the protagonist of the video is Shahab Salehi. The video was a great success, in fact on March 26, 2017 it reached the milestone of one billion views on YouTube.

In 2016 he published other singles for example SING ME TO SLEEP, ROUTINE and ALONE. In 2017 he published TIRED in collaboration with Gavin James. Later, in September 2017, he published THE SPECTRE , remastered by voice from his music Specter and, in October, he published ALL FALLS DOWN in collaboration with Noah Cyrus and Digital Farm Animals. In 2018 he produced a featuring with K-391, Julie Bergan and Seungri: Ignite. To conclude 2018, Walker released Different World in collaboration with K-391, Sofia Carson and Corsak, from his debut album of the same name, released on December 14th. The album consists of 15 songs including 5 new: LOST CONTROL, DON’T WANNA GO, LILY, LONELY and DO IT ALL FOR YOU.

In 2019 he released other songs such as ARE YOU LONELY: a remix of the original song LONELY, the single ON MY WAY, UNITY, LIVE FAST, PLAY, EURO DANCER and finally on November 2nd he released AVEM. From 2016 onwards Alan walker began to undertake tours the first of them was the WAKER TOUR in 2016-2017, then the WORLD OF WALKER TOUR in 2017-2018, the DIFFERENT WORLD TOUR in 2017-2019 and finally the AVIATION TOUR in 2018-2019.

INTERVIEW WITH ALAN WALKER

In 2016 an interview with Alan Walker was made, here following an extract:

 Don’t you have plans for an entire album, or if you have them, don’t you tell them?

“I continue to produce music that I would call abstract in the sense that I don’t put myself on the computer with a feeling in my head, I put down a basic idea and let my creativity run free”. “Sooner or later even a single instrumental will arrive, I started from there and I want to come back. I have always loved the soundtracks, and therefore I started doing EDM, but with an idea of providing soundscapes influenced by the soundtracks of films and video games. I am interested in creating music that makes you feel good. Here is what EDM is missing today: emotions and melodies with a positive spirit “.

And the hood always dropped on the head?

“It’s not that I don’t want people to recognize me, but it has become my hallmark. It’s my style. People don’t see me in the face and … recognize me. Isn’t it cool? ”.

• Seregni