Avicii

Avicii
Tim Bergling is a Swedish DJ, remixer and record producer. He is better known by his stage name Avicii. Tim Bergling was born 8. September 1989.

Career

Avicii's career started when he was ranked as number six on the top 100 DJ list by DJ Magazine in 2011. Not long after, in 2012 and 2013 he got ranked as number three. He has won two Grammy Awards for his work, one in 2011 with the song levels and the second one "Sunshine" with David Guetta in 2012. In 2013 he got the "Best Electronic" Artist award at MTV EMA held on November 10. 2013. On 14 June 2013 his song "Wake Me Up" had world premier.

 "Wake Me Up" was first previewed by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1 who described it as a "complete change in style from other singles". The song was vocaled by Aloe Blacc. On June 25 they released it on iTunes. It was the first single he released into his album True, which was released later on 16 September the same year. Wake Me Up was 1# on Spotify and Avicii was the second most streamed artist worldwide. "Four years ago, Tim Bergling was a high school kid in Stockholm, remixing songs on his laptop in the style of house-music acts like Swedish house mafia and posting the results in the comment sections of music blogs" - Jessica Pressler. GQ

Now he DJs around 250 nights a year.