The song’s easy gait and buoyant textures heralded EDM’s turn away from peak-time moods toward softer, more tropically flavored styles, and icons like Tiësto and Hardwell lined up to remix the then-18-year-old’s runaway hit. It was 2015’s “Faded,” a soaring vocal remake of his wistful instrumental “Fade,” that would mark Walker’s turning point from digital native to world conqueror, topping charts and breaking records. By 15, he was uploading his music to the internet: bright, upbeat instrumentals informed by the drama of trance, the bounce of hardstyle, and the chipper mood of video-game music. Born in the UK in 1997 to an English mother and Norwegian father, Walker was raised in Bergen, Norway, where he discovered electronic music as a young teen, learning to produce from online tutorials. Alan Walker was on a path to reshaping the dance music of the 2010s before he was old enough to go clubbing.
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