Christoffer Semelius (aka. Christoffer Lauridsen) (born 1 August 1986) is a Danish-Swedish songwriter and producer working out of

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. He has produced/co-written and collaborated with and for artists such as Red Velvet, K-pop superstars GoT7, Wanna One, Martina Stoessel, and

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. Early in his career Christoffer moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as an assistant engineer in a recording studio. Shortly after his time in the UK Christoffer was hired to work in one of

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's prime recording facilities to engineer jazz and classical recordings. Christoffer studied music production in Växjö, Sweden, and afterwards moved to Stockholm where he worked as a producer/songwriter in collaboration with

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and Johan Kronlund for several years. Christoffer is a multi-platinum certified songwriter who has co-written/produced songs for/with several international writers/artists and has contributed to several international Billboard charts and won "Song of the year" with

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. He has also done work for

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and collaborated with

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early in his career. "Losing the Love"(produced and co-written by Christoffer) is featured in the Disney movie titled ''Tini: El gran cambio de Violetta'' starring Martina Stoessel, as well as on her debut album. When released on April 29 the album went Gold in

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and topped the charts in several countries.

Songwriting/producer discography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lauridsen, Christoffer 1986 births Living people Danish songwriters Danish record producers