Alan Olav Walker (formerly DJ Walkzz) — Norwegian DJ and music producer.
Biography
Alan born 24th August 1997 in the UK, he granted dual citizenship (British and Norwegian), because of parental origin. At the age of 2 his family moved to Norway, but later to Britain again. He was interested in computers, later started to programming and graphic design. One day he tired of mainstream music and start looking for new music on YouTube. He found a channel called DJ Ness and became interested how to do similar music by yourself. Alan started to watch his tutorials and learned how to make EDM. In free time Alan made new tracks for YouTube. When he released the song, called Fade, record label NoCopyrightSounds found him and he made some songs for them and his popularity grown, later he left the label. In 2014 he received a phone call from Gunnar Greve, who met Alan's festival poster in Norway, got his phone number from event administrator and wanted to become his producer, Alan agreed. To symbolise and create a unity of his community he started to wear a black balaclava and hoodie. Later they remade a "Fade", that became "Faded", music was changed and vocals were added. When the song was released in 2015, it quickly became popular and he got many music awards.