Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997 in Northampton, England, United Kingdom) is a Norwegian DJ and music producer.
At the age of 14, he began learning to make music through various videos on YouTube and began posting his music on YouTube and Sound Cloud.
On November 19, 2014, Elan Walker released the electronic track "Fade" through youtube's music brand NCS, which was subsequently included in NCS's music collection NCS: Uplifting.
In 2015, he released two works, "Spectre" and "Force"; in the same year, he left NCS to sign with Mer Musikk, a subsidiary of Sony Music; on December 4, the first official single "faded" was released through Sony Music, which was based on "fade" and joined the singing part of Norwegian female singer Acelyn Solheim, whose mv exceeded 600 million hits on Youtube. It also achieved more than 3.8 million global physical sales, and also became the number one singles chart in ten European countries, and even the Dutch DJ Tiasto remixed the song.
On February 12, 2016, he was inspired by Hans Zimmer and other film soundtrack producers to create an orchestral version of "Fade"; on February 27, Elan Walker performed fifteen songs, including "faded", at the 19th Winter x games in Oslo, Norway, which was his first live performance; on June 3, he released the electric single "sing me to sleep", which was also sung by Eslyn Solheim. His mv was filmed in Hong Kong, China; in September, he performed "faded", "sing me to sleep", "hymn for the weekend (remix)" and other tracks at the MTA Tianmo Music Festival in China, which was his Chinese premiere; on November 5, he came to perform at the Jungle Electronic Music Festival held at the Shenzhen Universiade Center; on November 6, he won the MTV European Music Awards "Best Norwegian Artist"; and on December 2, he launched the Norwegian female singer Nomi Noonie Bao sang the electric work "Alone" and released the mv of the song at the same time. On January 5, 2017, it won the "Western Singer of the Year" and "Western Song of the Year" awards in the 12th Taiwan kkbox Digital Music Chart; on January 7, he came to Shanghai myst Bar in China to perform; on February 22, "faded" was shortlisted for the "British Single of the Year" award at the 37th All England Music Awards; in April, he launched the edm work "Ignite" co-produced with dj k-391; in May, he launched the edm song "tired". The song was sung by Irish singer-songwriter Gavin James. In September, the electronic single "The Spectre" was released, which was remade on the basis of "Spectre" and added vocals; in November, it participated in the League of Legends Music Carnival performance at Beijing Water Cube.
On July 27, 2018, the second part of the Word of Walker trilogy, "Darkside", was launched, and the official mv has been launched, giving people still a shocking perspective and feeling.
So young, he has already flourished in the music industry, worthy of the electronic music ghost!!!