Safri Duo
Safri Duo is a Danish musician - Duo , which by its percussion highlights (at first Classical , later Dance ).
Career
The duo consists of Uffe Savery (born April 5, 1966 ) and Morten Friis (born August 21, 1968 ) (where Safri was composed of the two surnames). Both are school friends who also graduated from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music together. Since 1988, both have rewritten classical works for their percussion music and have performed worldwide.
The breakthrough came when they both changed their style and switched to dance. Her biggest success was Played-a-Live (The Bongo Song) . The song reached number two in the German single charts and number one on the Swiss hit parade and the Danish charts in 2001 . In the same year they were the live act during the opening ceremony of the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. In addition, the duo received the Echo for Best International Dance Act in 2002 , took part in the Nokia Night of the Proms tour in 2005 and played several songs there with an orchestra.
2010 Safri Duo presented in cooperation with Velile the soundtrack Helele for the transmissions to the 2010 FIFA World Cup radio station RTL and the Swiss television .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 AT
|
 CH
|
 UK
|
 DK
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| 2001 | Episode II |
DE2  (36 weeks)DE |
AT21 (16 weeks) AT |
CH2  (35 weeks)CH |
- |
DK1 × 3
(73 weeks)DK |
|
| 2003 | 3.0 | - | - |
CH73 (2 weeks) CH |
- |
DK2 (31 weeks) DK |
|
| 2004 | 3.5 | - | - | - | - |
DK6th (14 weeks)DK |
|
| 2008 | Origins | - | - | - | - |
DK14 (10 weeks) DK |
|
| 2010 | Greatest hits |
DE32 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
CH23 (8 weeks) CH |
- | - |
compilation
|
More albums
- 1990: Turn Up Volume
- 1994: Works for Percussion
- 1995: English & French Suites (Percussion Transcriptions)
- 1995: Paganini Variations / Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion / American Fantasy (with The Slovak Piano Duo, Lutosławski , Bartók & Helweg )
- 1996: Goldrush: Works of Percussion
- 1998: Bach to the Future
- 2001: Episode II - The Remix Edition
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
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AT
|
CH
|
UK
|
DK
|
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| 2001 | Played-a-Live (The Bongo Song) Episode II |
DE2 (48 weeks)DE |
AT7 (30 weeks) AT |
CH1 (42 weeks)CH |
UK6th  (9 weeks)UK |
DK1 (21 weeks)DK |
|
| Samb-Adagio Episode II |
DE14 (13 weeks) DE |
AT35 (14 weeks) AT |
CH28 (20 weeks) CH |
- |
DK9 (3 weeks) DK |
||
| Baya Baya Episode II |
DE74 (4 weeks) DE |
- |
CH52 (11 weeks) CH |
- | - | ||
| 2002 | Sweet Freedom Episode II New Edition |
DE29 (9 weeks) DE |
AT50 (6 weeks) AT |
CH52 (14 weeks) CH |
UK54 (1 week) UK |
- |
feat. Michael McDonald
|
| 2003 | Fallin 'High 3.0 |
DE65 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
CH44 (7 weeks) CH |
- |
DK1 (22 weeks) DK |
|
| 2008 | Origins Origins |
- | - | - | - |
DK32 (1 week) DK |
|
| 2010 |
Helele Greatest Hits |
DE2 (35 weeks)DE |
AT8 (24 weeks) AT |
CH1 (18 weeks)CH |
- | - |
with velile
|
| Mad World | - | - | - | - |
DK4th (19 weeks)DK |
Michael Parsberg feat. Safri Duo & Isam B
|
|
| 2013 | Dimitto (Let Go) | - | - | - | - |
DK1 (10 weeks)DK |
with Kato feat. Bjornskov
|
More singles
- 2001: On the Move vs. Played-a-Live ( Barthezz vs. Safri Duo)
- 2001: EP
- 2003: All the People in the World (feat.Clark Anderson)
- 2003: Sunrise ( Ayla vs. Safri Duo)
- 2004: Knock On Wood (feat. Clark Anderson)
- 2004: Rise
- 2004: Hvor 'vi fra? (Landsholdet feat. Safri Duo, B-Boys & Birthe Kjær )
- 2004: Ritmo de la noche
- 2008: Twilight
- 2017: Time of Summer Nights (with Oonagh )
Awards for music sales
|
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
platinum
|
Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
|||||
 Belgium (BEA)
|
- | - |
platinum1
|
50,000 | ultratop.be |
|
Denmark (IFPI)
|
- |
4 × gold4th
|
4 × platinum4th
|
207,500 | ifpi.dk hitlisten.nu |
|
Germany (BVMI)
|
- |
gold1
|
2 × platinum2
|
950,000 | musikindustrie.de |
 Norway (IFPI)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 5,000 | ifpi.no |
 Sweden (IFPI)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 15,000 | sverigetopplistan.se |
|
Switzerland (IFPI)
|
- | - |
3 × platinum3
|
110,000 | hitparade.ch |
 Spain (Promusicae)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 50,000 | Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002 |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
silver1
|
- | - | 200,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
silver1
|
8 × gold8th
|
10 × platinum10
|
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Artist awards
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Dance Music Award
- 2001: in the category "Most successful international single act"