YNW Melly Trial: Attorney Questions Why Rapper Would Kill His 'Best Friends' I don’t really feel like I’ve had time to slow down.” The workload has been insane, right from the start. “I never dreamed of making music or touring on this level,” he told Rolling Stone around that time. He also became a brand name, selling items like Avicii condoms at his own pop-up store in Miami. You would have thought he was playing Nintendo, except there was sound coming out and you could hear him shaping it.”īy 2014, Avicii was the third-highest-paid DJ in the world and collaborating with Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, Zac Brown – and his heroes Coldplay. “Watching him produce, it was like watching someone play video games,” says Einziger.
“This is the type of music that I listen to, and this is the type of music I love.” Avicii wrote “Wake Me Up” with singer Aloe Blacc and Einziger. “I don’t feel like I’m selling out at all,” he told Rolling Stone in 2013, discussing the blowback he got from dance-music purists. (According to Neil Jacobson, a Geffen Records executive who worked with Avicii, Coldplay were Avicii’s “gold standard.”) After hearing a friend refer to the Buddhist term “Avici” – the hellish area where dead sinners are reborn – he adopted it as his stage name. As a teen, Bergling began posting tracks he made in his Stockholm bedroom to leading EDM sites, setting himself apart from his peers with sharp hooks. “But he seemed like he was achieving the balance he was trying to attain.”Īvicii was born Tim Bergling in 1989, the son of a Swedish sitcom actress and a businessman. “The lifestyle he was living, everywhere he went was this massive party,” says collaborator and Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger. The suicide surprised those close to Avicii, who had shown positive changes after quitting touring to deal with health and alcohol issues.
So it was a shock when, on April 20th, the DJ-producer – whose house beats, strong pop melodies and Nordic good looks made him one of EDM’s most bankable stars – died by suicide on an estate owned by the royal family.
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