Avicii
Avicii
Tim Bergling, better known by his stage name Avicii, is a Swedish electronic musician, DJ, remixer and record producer. Avicii was ranked third on DJ Mag in 2012 and 2013 and has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award, once for his work on "Sunshine" with David Guetta in 2012 and once for his song "Levels" in 2013. Some of his most famous songs are "I Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero, "Wake Me Up", "You Make Me", "X...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionDJ
Date of Birth8 September 1989
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.
When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
I've always worn a lot of Ralph Lauren, and plaid shirts in general have been a signature piece for me. With plaid, you can look super-relaxed or you can look a bit dressed up.
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.