Alan Óav Walker, known as Alan Walker, is
a British-Norwegian DJ and electronic music
producer.
Walker was born on August 24th 1997 in Nothampton,
England.
His dad is English while her mom is Norwegian.
When he was 2 years old, he moved with his
family to Bergen, Norway.
He has two siblings, an older sister and a
little brother.
Walker, as any other kid from his generation,
was raised surrounded by technology, and since
he was a little kid, he always showed interest
on computers.
First, he was fascinated by programming, videogames
and graphic design.
He started listening to electronic music and,
inspired by K-391 and Ahrix, who he had found
on Youtube, he wanted to know how they created
their songs and mixes, and he started watching
tutorials on the itnernet and learning little
by little.
In 2012, he started creating his own music
on his laptop.
He started working on different genres such
as electro house and, influenced by Drumstep,
a kind of slowed down drum'n'bass, he wrote
Fade in 2014.
It was then that everything changed for Alan.
He uploaded it to his Youtube and SoundCloud
channels, and it was an unexpected immediate
success.
It worked so well that the NCS label decided
to sign a contract with the only-17-year-old
Alan.
NoCopyrightSounds released Fade on their youtube
channel on November 19th 2014, reaching a
great success and having more than 100 million
reproductions.
The songs Spectre and Force came after, in
2015.
Alan Walker’s name didn’t take long to
become popular, and in 2015 he signed a contract
with Sony Music.
Alan left his studies to focus completely
in the creation of music.
His first single for the label was “Faded”,
a vocal version of “Fade” with Íselin
Sólháim’s sweet voice.
With an ethereal and melancholic, yet catchy,
sound, Faded turned into a massive success
and it made it to the music hit lists of half
Europe.
The music video, dark and dystopic, recorded
in abandoned factories in Estonia, has more
than one thousand million visits on Youtube.
Faded was released on December 3rd 2015.
Two months later, he released the acoustic
version - Faded Restrung.
Walker debuted life in the X Games in Oslo
in February 2016.
From then onwards, he started appearing in
different festivals all around the world.
With a very defined style, he usually wears
a hood and a black mask covering his mouth,
and not because he is shy!
With the intention of keeping a low profile,
he was inspired by the black bloc concept,
a technique based on wearing black clothes
in order to avoid being identified and, specially,
to make it difficult to distinguish between
individuals and promote equality.
Walker was originally known as DJ Walkzz.
Then, he changed it to “Walkzz”, but he
ended up using his real name as his stage
name.
His logo, formed by his initials A and W interlaced,
was design by Walker himself in 2013.
On June 2nd 2016, he released Sing me to Sleep,
collaborating again with the singer Iselin
Solheim.
On December 1st 2016, he released his single
“Alone”.
He has released several remixes: one of the
Coldplay song "Hymn for the Weekend", another
one of the Cash Cash and Digital Farm Animal’s
song "Millionaire (ft. Nelly)", anooother
one of the song “Move your body” by Sia,
and recently, a remix of That's What I Like
by Bruno Mars.
He has also collaborated with Sofia Carson
in her song “Back to Beautiful”, and has
also released remixes of other artists such
as Miley Cyrus, Avicii, Ina Wroldsen, Noah
Cyrus, Kygo & OneRepublic.
On May 18th 2017, he released Tired with Gavin
James.
Alan is a big follower of the film composers
Steve Jablonsky and Hans Zimmer, and he never
discarded the idea of working on film soundtracks
in the future.
He has more than 6 million subscribers on
Youtube, and his channel is the Norwegian
channel with the highest number of followers
on the platform.
Right now, he is on a world tour with his
Walker Tour.
He was Rihanna’s supporting artist during
her “Anti World Tour” and, soon, he is
going on a tour with Justin Bieber to India.
He also has a documentary still to be released
about his life, on his Youtube Channel: “Alan
Walker: Unmasked.”
From his room, to the stage all around the
world, Alan Walker has reached the dream of
many people!
He has become one of the biggest young promises
of electronic music, and is a clear example
that, with determination, creativity and effort,
everything is possible thanks 
to the Internet!
