Alesso

Alesso in 2014

Alesso (born July 7, 1991 in Stockholm ; actually Alessandro Rodolfo Renato Lindblad ) is a Swedish DJ , music producer and remixer in the field of house .

Career

Alesso released his first production in May 2010 with the EP E: P on the Swedish house label Joia Records . The EP contained the three songs Think It's Time , Workaholic and Moma . The song Loose It was also released on the same label in 2010 . Eventually he was signed to Sebastian Ingrosso's label Refune Records . His second EP, Dynamite EP , was released there in March 2011 . Nillionaire , the second song on the EP, was particularly successful . Ingrosso also produced a bootleg version of Nillionaire and the song Together for him and Axwell . This version was often played by the members of the Swedish House Mafia at their appearances and thus helped Alesso to become known for the first time.

His breakthrough came in 2011 with his remix of the song Pressure by the Pakistani singer Nadia Ali , which was a big club and festival hit in 2011 and was often performed by well-known DJs such as Armin van Buuren , Tiësto , Kaskade , Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia was played. Kaskade described the song as "Tune of 2011". The remix also won the award for Best Progressive Track at the 27th International Dance Music Awards of the Winter Music Conference 2012. In 2011, Alesso entered the 70th place for the first time in the selection of the Top 100 DJs by DJ Mag .

Another great success was celebrated in 2012 with the track Calling (Lose My Mind) in collaboration with the also Swedish DJ Sebastian Ingrosso , who was a member of the Swedish House Mafia , and the OneRepublic front man Ryan Tedder . The song was released as a single on March 13, 2012 and hit the charts in numerous countries, including Great Britain, Australia, France and Sweden. Then Alesso released other vocals, such as Years with Matthew Koma and City of Dreams with Dirty South . In spring 2013, his remix of the song If I Lose Myself by the American pop rock band OneRepublic was released as a single and helped the song again to high chart positions.

Together with the British dance-pop duo Hurts and the British house DJ Calvin Harris , he produced the song Under Control in 2013 . The track got him high chart positions in all European countries. The style of the song is very similar to the main part of his remix to OneRepublics If I Lose Myself and differs from the 80s music style of Hurts. The music video was uploaded a few days before it was released in Germany and shows the two DJs as well as the singer from Hurts, Theo Hutchcraft. The song could go high in all single charts.

In autumn 2014 he recorded a song with the also Swedish singer Tove Lo , who had great success with the song Habits (Stay High) in the same year . The Track Heroes (We Could Be) emerged from the cooperation . The music video that appeared parallel to the single shows both Alesso and Tove Lo. After just a few weeks, the video received several million views and the track also enjoyed high ratings in many countries, including the USA. In Sweden, the song reached the top ten in the first week.

Discography

→ Main article : Alesso / discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2015	Forever	-	AT69 (1 week) AT	CH43 (1 week) CH	UK24 silver (2 weeks)UK	US30 (2 weeks) US	SE4th gold (18 weeks)SE	First published: May 22, 2015

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1. ↑ Brandon Veevers: Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji Release Some Pressure . In: Entertainment Focus . October 19, 2011. Archived from the original on October 24, 2011. Retrieved on February 19, 2012.
2. ↑ Top 100 DJs / 30th cascade . In: DJ Mag . Archived from the original on October 24, 2011. Retrieved on February 19, 2012.
3. ↑ Top 100 DJs / 70th Alesso ( Memento from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 UK3 US SE

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Alesso at Discogs (English)