To conclude this series of articles I decided to dedicate the last of these to a musical group and not to a single singer: the Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons are an American band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2008.

The group gained notoriety starting in 2012 with the single It’s Time and the launch of their first album Night Visions, which reached the second position on the Billboard 200.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP

the group is made up of: singer Dan Reynolds, drummer Andrew Tolman who met at Brigham Young University in Provo, both students and right there in 2008 they started playing and creating music together. The rest of the group is Wayne Sermon, from Berklee College of Music, and Brittany Tolman, a colleague of Dan Reynolds University and Andrew Tolman, is formed by guitarist Andrew Colin Beck, keyboardist Aurora Florence and bassist Dave Lemke who together create the skeleton of the group.

Initially the band uses a name known by them therefore not yet public but shortly afterwards it was changed to Imagine Dragons. The group started to get their first successes already in 2008 with the victory in the “Battle of the Bands” of the University of that year. After the publication Wayne Sermon, coming from Berklee College of Music, and Brittany Tolman, a colleague of Dan Reynolds University and Andrew Tolman, ion of the first song: Speak to Me, the group saw how Beck and Florence left the group but not a little later they were replaced by Wayne Sermon, from Berklee College of Music, and Brittany Tolman, a colleague of Dan Reynolds University and Andrew Tolman.

In 2010 the group started creating the first tracks especially when they moved permanently to Las Vegas.

Also in the same year after the release of several EPs including IT’S TIME the group began to perform in front of an audience in different places in America attracting many people to listen to their music.

SUCCESS PERIOD

This period of success dates back to the period between 2012 and 2018. In 2012 the band moved to Studio X, located in the Palms Casino Resort, to finish recording their debut album Night Visions.

The album was released on September 4, 2012 selling 83,000 copies in the first week. Night Visions won recognition as a platinum in seven states and in others the gold disc, accumulating 2013 1.8 million dollars of sales only in United States of America.

In summer 2014 the group returned to the studio to record a second album, in particular it began with the release of three tracks: I Bet My Life, Gold and Shots.

In the summer of 2015 roots was released, on October 12 I was me, on March 2, 2016 the film concert Smoke and Mirrors Live was released in cinemas all over the world.

2017 was a year in which the most important songs of the band were published: believer on February 1, 2017, currently the most listened to song, on April 27 2017 was released thunder currently the second most listened single and finally in 2018 in particular on November 9 bad liar was published, currently third in the ranking for ratings.

The group of Imagine Dragons has always loved to exhibit their skills in front of an audience so it organized several concerts every year all over the world, for example in Melbourne, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.

Martin Garrix(14/05/1996)pseudonym of  Martijn Gerard Garritsen.

He’s  passion for music was born as a child, when he started playing the guitar. In 2004 he decided to become a DJ after seeing Tiësto’s performance at the Athens Olympic Games. From then on he started downloading programs to create music; shortly thereafter he joined the Herman Brood Academie in Utrecht where he graduated in 2014.

His real career as a producer was born in 2012 where he started producing his first songs including ITSA, Keygen and BFAM. Also in the same year he won the “Nightlife Award” during the “SLAM.

From 2012 onwards Martin Garrix begins to publish his personal songs or remixes of other producers.

In fact, in 2013 he published Torrent in collaboration with Sidney Samson.

After the publication of several songs, the success reached him at only 17 years with the single Animals, published on June 17, 2013 through Spinnin ‘Records and which reached the first position in Belgium and in the United Kingdom, thus making Garrix the youngest artist always to have achieved this result.

The publication of other songs continued in 2014 in fact On January 20, 2014 he published his edit of Crackin by Bassjackers, followed on February 17 by Helicopter.

On June 2nd he released Gold Skies, a single made with Sander van Doorn, DVBBS and Aleesia, while on July 7th his edit of DubVision’s Backlash was released.

Also in summer 2014 Martin Garrix released the EP or an album containing all his 5 previous songs, on August 25 the single Turn Up the Speakers was released, recorded with Afrojack, one of the most important and famous DJs in the world, while the October 6 was the turn of the single Set Me Free, made with Dillon Francis and inserted in the latter’s album.

In the following year or in 2015 Martin Garrix began to publish other content at the beginning of the year in particular on February 6 he published the song Forbidden Voices for digital download as a thank you to his supporters for having reached 10 million likes on Facebook. On March 17, 2015 he released the song Don’t Look Down in collaboration with Usher, the DJ is one of the 50 winners of the 2015 YouTube Music Awards.

From summer 2015 Garrix obtained a residence at Ushuaia in Ibiza, one of the most important and famous discos in Europe.

Three days later he released the single Dragon with the Russian duo Matisse & Sadko, followed the following week by Break Through the Silence; both tracks reached the top position in the Beatport chart and were accompanied by the related video clips released on YouTube.

Also in 2015 in particular on November 19^th Martin Garrix founded his own record label STMPD RCRDS through which he released the single Now That I’ve Found you on march 11^th 2016.

Finally, the last single that Martin Garrix released was Scared to Be Lonely, recorded together with the singer Dua Lipa(27 Jenuary 2017).

TOUR

To conclude, Martin Garrix is a producer and singer who loves to entertain his followers by organizing concerts and festivals: in fact Garrix has shown his dj skills in front of millions of people around the world for example the most important of many was that in tommorowland. He also organized many tours around the world.

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? ”.

Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989 and he died on 20 April 2018. 

His name as professional was Avicii; he was a Swedish DJ, electronic musician, and songwriter who specialized in audio programming, remixing, and record producing.

His music has been especially influenced by Daft Punk,

 When he was 16 y.o., Tim began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first record deal. He began famous in 2011 with his single “Levels”. His first studio album, True (2013), mixed electronic music with elements of multiple genres and received generally positive reviews. It peaked in the top ten in more than fifteen countries and topped international dance charts. In 2015, Bergling released his second studio album: it included the singles “I Could Be the One” with Nicky Romero, “You Make Me”, “X You”, “Hey Brother”, “Addicted to You”, “The Days”, “The Nights”, “Waiting for Love”, “Without You” and “Lonely Together”. These are also some of the songs that led him to success and to be known all over the world. In the following years he continued the publication of other songs including for example “Dancing in My Head” (Tom Hangs Mix) that was released on 14 August 2012 on iTunes, and a remix EP that was later released on 30 October 2012 featuring remixes from Charlie Bernardo and Michael Woods, “Addicted to You” and “Wake Me Up” .But of all his songs the one that had the greatest success was LEVELS, that later Tim released as a new vocal version with instrumentals, a radio edit, and remixes from Audrio and Didrick. After achieving a large commercial success, Bergling created in 2011 the House for Hunger , a charity dedicated to alleviating global hunger. Bergling said: “You have to give something back. I am so fortunate to be in the position where I can actually do that. I feel lucky every day when I wake up and am able to do what I love and make a living.” In addition to donating $1 million to Feeding America, a charity founded by John Van Hengel, House for Hunger has helped fund the efforts of The Feed Foundation, started by Laura Bush , allowing it to distribute over 2 million school meals throughout Africa. He also supported campaigns against human trafficking and gang violence when he directed the videos for his tracks “For a Better Day” and “Pure Grinding”.

DEATH

In January 2012, Bergling was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis caused by excessive alcohol use. In 2016, Bergling’s health deteriorated, and he retired from performing live. But he received high pressure from his management and fans to continue touring. He started to be addicted to painkillers

All this led him to suicide.                                           

Bergling died on 20 April 2018 near Muscat,Oman, at the age of 28. No cause of death was immediately given but at the end it has been established that the cause of death was a suicide due to self-inflicted injuries with a broken wine bottle, that made him dyeof blood loss.

His family said “ Tim was a fragile artistic soul searching for answers to existential questions. An over-achieving perfectionist who travelled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress. He really struggled with thoughts about Meaning, Life, Happiness. He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace. Tim was not made for the business machine he found himself in; he was a sensitive guy who loved his fans but not the spotlight.

LEVELS