Early Life
Alan Walker was born in 1997 and his parents were Philip Alan Walker and Hilde Omdal Walker. Because his parents are not from the same country, he has double citizenship from an early age. He moved to Bergen, Norway with his sister and his parents when he was only two years old.
He grew up with his two siblings, an older sister named Camilla Joy and his younger brother named Andreas Walker.
Since he grew up in the digital age, he developed an interest in computers and then his love for programming and graphic design emerged from that.
What is really interesting about him is that he has no background or music education at all. All he learned was self -taught through YouTube by watching tutorials and guidelines.
Career
His career really began in 2012 when he heard a very popular song “Whistle” by Flo Rida and that made him interested in how it was made, so he approached a DJ and asked him how it was done.
What really made him leave was his inspiration from an EDM producer named K-391 and Ahrix. He also has several other great inspiration; The film composer is named Steve Jablonsky and Hans Zimmer. As far as the equipment he uses to make his music, most of the laptops are done using FL Studio.
Alan Walker released one so-called “Fade” in 2014, but it was truly famous after re-release thanks to the record label called Nocopyrightsounds.
After that, he had a great opportunity to sign a contract with Mer Musick, which of course he took. The parent company is Sony Music Sweden, under his new contract and label, he released a new single called “Faded” which is the remix of the song “Fade” but with an additional vocal from a pop singer named Iselin Solheim.
The result is something he can never expect; The single began to occupy the peak of the year-end chart in Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. It was also placed on iTunes charts in about 32 countries and even entered the top 10 lists on the Global Spotify chart, which was a big achievement.
The music video “Faded” has more than 1.2 billion appearance and 7.9 million likes that place it in the top 20 videos when considering like. After “faded” became a global phenomenon, he had just finished high school.
Performance
Even though he was very young, he had won several awards; He won the Åets music (music this year) from an organization called Gullsnutten for his work carried out as Alan Walker in 2016. He also won the Pprisen export ’16 (export prize ’16) from Spellemann and Music Norwegian 2017. He even won the Norwegian actions Best from MTV Europe Music Awards 2017.
Alan Walker Net Worth 2022
His net worth is now considered around $ 15 million. Most of the money he made merely from his music career.
Alan Walker is still very young, and we are very happy to see what he has for us in the future.
