Calvin Harris
Adam Richard Wiles ( born January 17, 1984 in Dumfries, Scotland ), better known by his stage name Calvin Harris is a Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter and producer, primarily of electronic music, most notably House, electro, Electro - House and Dance. He gained international fame with his song Acceptable in the 80's, a tribute to the style and culture of the 1980s.
- 3.1 Studio albums
- 4.1 nominations
- 4.2 Awards
Biography
Harris was born on 17 January 1984 in the Scottish Dumfries son of a biochemist and a housewife. His first experience with music he made in his youth, in which he recorded some demos at home in the bedroom. In an interview, Harris stated that he had at that time very isolated, which had an effect on his personality. His earliest success was the publication of Songs Since bongos and Brighter Days on 12-inch single at age 21 under the pseudonym " Stouffer ". With these songs in the luggage Harris moved to London, but failed to establish themselves artistically.
Back in his hometown of Dumfries began Harris, self-composed songs to upload to the Internet platform MySpace, where a talent scout of the label EMI discovered the songs and Harris got a label deal.
He is currently romantically involved with singer Rita Ora.
Career
2006-2008: Initial success and debut album
Harris first album, I Created Disco ( German: " I created the disco music " ) was published on 18 June 2007 in the UK. The album contains synth-pop, dance, and electro-pop songs. In order to advertise the album, Harris went with Faithless and Groove Armada on tour in the United Kingdom.
The first single from the album was Vegas, which was only released as a limited vinyl single. The first chart success came with the electropop song Acceptable in the 80's, a tribute to the 80s. The song reached the Top 10 of the singles charts in the UK, where it was able to hold for 15 weeks. In Germany the song reached great popularity through the use of the commercial for the talent show Germany's Next Top Model. As a result Acceptable reached 80 's # 30 in the German single charts in the. The follow-up single The Girls could reach # 3 in the UK Singles Chart. Among other things, the song in the comedy show Two and a Half Men was used. In 2007, the Canadian band Dragonette released a new version of the song titled The Boys, in which the Group, directly refers to Harris. The last single from I Created Disco was Merrymaking at My Place, was also placed at number 43.
Also in 2007, Harris took the Australian pop star Kylie Minogue into the recording studio. He had their attention gained after another music producer Harris ' demos had passed on them. Harris admitted that working with Minogue felt surreal, but fun did, although he was very upset with her before the first meeting. Harris produced and wrote two songs for Minogue's album X. Firstly, the successful single, In My Arms, on the other Heart Beat Rock. He also produced the song Michael Jackson for the British rap duo The Mitchell Brothers.
In 2008, Harris worked with the British hip- hop artist Dizzee Rascal on the song Dance wiv Me Both musicians presented the song for the first time as an acoustic version on the Glastonbury Festival before. The song was released digitally on 30 June 2008 and went straight to the top of the UK singles charts. After that, the song also reached number 48 in the German single charts and brought Harris a number of nominations and awards one, among others, a nomination at the BRIT Awards and an award at the NME Awards Best Dancefloor Filler as. Harris also produced Rascals new single Holiday, which became another number -one hit in the UK.
In an interview with BBC Radio 1 Harris said that he had refused to cooperate with the U.S. pop star Lady Gaga, because the request came at a time when Lady Gaga was still unknown and his demo recording, which had been sent to him, had not promised. Later, however, he made it clear that he considered Lady Gaga as a " great artist ".
Since 2009: Ready for the Weekend and 18 Months
After releasing his debut album Harris was already working on the successor. Similar to the first album, the artist took his songs at home on a laptop. In the chaos of the opening of the new Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport English airport this laptop was allegedly lost, so that Harris large parts of the album have new must import or on vocals. Harris was, however, later admitted that he got his baggage back after a few days. He confessed that the computer had not been in his luggage and he just hoped it to get more time to complete his album. He explained: " My label wanted the album, I had at the time but only two songs ready. There is now but turned out really good ... I knew I had to somehow make people pay attention to me. To show that I'm still alive, that I am my label has not dropped and I'm at work for the second plate. So I thought to myself this story, my press lady at Columbia she immediately found great. So we put it in my MySpace blog, and a lot of newspapers wrote it off. "
Harris ' second studio album Ready for the Weekend ( German: " Ready for the weekend " ), was released in August 2009. For promotion of the album and its singles Harris went to Great Britain, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and the United States on tour. In advance of the album release, the single I'm Not Alone was published, Harris officially on New Year's Eve in Sydney presented for the first time. The song shot to the top of the charts due to high downloads, where it remained as a CD for another week after publication. The second single from the album, Ready for the Weekend, reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Even Harris ' album Ready for the Weekend had some successes. In the first chart week it reached the top position in the UK album charts and # 6 in Ireland. On October 16, the album by the British Phonographic Industry Award for sales of 100,000 copies sold in gold. The third and fourth single from the album, Flashback and You Used to Hold Me failed to match the success of its predecessor. They could only reach number 18 or number 27 on the charts. Moreover, in summer, a remix of his song Yeah Yeah Yeah, La La La was used in a commercial for the beverage brand Coca Cola.
In 2010, Harris worked again with Kylie Minogue in their eleventh studio album Aphrodite along. Wrote with the singer of the band Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears, and Minogue and he produced the Synthpopsong Too Much. Even with Sophie Ellis -Bextor he worked. For her album Make a Scene, released in April 2011, he produced Off & On, in which he was involved as an author.
His biggest chart success, and ultimately greater notoriety he gained as a producer of Rihanna's hit We Found Love, which became a worldwide No. 1 hit in October and November 2011. Calvin Harris was named in this publication as a featured artist.
Already in August 2011, published Calvin Harris the single Let's Go. This was a year later, his second chart hit as the leading artist in Germany. In the UK, the track reached number 2 and was his seventh top 10 hit. We'll Be Coming Back with Example was published July 27, 2012 as a single, was also able to show in his home 2nd place, but did not manage to chart entry in a German-speaking countries. Only with the single Sweet Nothing with Florence Welch, which appeared on 14 October 2012, he again scored a hit in Germany. With room 19 it was the hitherto highest placed hit. In the UK the single reached number 1 - it was the second No. 1 hit for him. The album was released on 18 Months October 26, 2012 in Germany. The album placed in the charts and was able to reach # 1 on first attempt in the UK. As a sixth single from the album, Drinking from the Bottle was released in the UK. Even before publication, the song was charted at number 5 in the UK charts.
The song I Need Your Love with Ellie Goulding is the seventh single and could achieve good charts positions, she appeared on April 12, 2013, and placed himself at # 4 in the UK charts. The eighth and final international single from the album was Thinking About You and was published on August 4, 2013.
Calvin Harris published in March 2014 the single " Summer", which is located in the genre of dance music.
Discography
Studio albums
Awards
Nominations
- BT Digital Music Awards Best Electronic Artist / DJ
- Q Awards: Best Breakthrough Artist
- XFM Music Awards: I Created Disco
- Shortlist Music Prize: I Created Disco
- BRIT Awards: Dance wiv Me (Best British Single)
- Ivor Novello Awards: Dance wiv Me ( Best Contemporary Song )
- BRIT Awards: Best British Artists
Awards
- The Music Producers Guild Award: Best Remixer
- NME Awards: Dance wiv Me ( feat. Dizzee Rascal & Chrome)
- NME Awards: Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch )
- Ivor Novello Awards: Songwriter of the Year