Carl Anthony Falk-Gramer (née Falk; born 17 August 1980 in

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), is a Swedish songwriter, record producer and musician and has worked with artists such as

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, 5 Seconds of Summer,

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Biography

As a student Falk attended the

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in Stockholm. He then joined "The Location" in 2002, a new production and publishing-company formed by former Cheiron-members

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and Jake Schulz, leasing the former Cheiron Studios. Falk left "The Location" in 2007 and re-located to Los Angeles in April 2010 to team up with

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and

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(

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). Back in Sweden Carl and Rami started their production company and studio – Kinglet Studios. Since 2010 he has co-written and co-produced hits like "

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", "One Thing", "Live While We're Young", "Kiss You" by One Direction and " Starships" and " Pound The Alarm" by

. In 2012 Carl was listed as No. 4 on Music Week Top 100 Songwriters of the year based on the UK's 100 biggest selling singles of the year. The same year "Starships" also made US Billboard history, by both debuting in and spending a total of 21 consecutive weeks in the US Top Ten, passing The Black Eyed Peas's single "

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". As of February 2013, it has sold 7.2 million digital downloads worldwide. Subsequently, he received two

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for most performed songs of 2012: "Starships" and "What Makes You Beautiful". Falk worked with

writing " Shouldn't Come Back" and "

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" for her 2013 album " Demi". He also worked on "Rest Of Our Life" for

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and " Red Lights" for Tiesto. Falk reached further success in 2014 when he worked with

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on the hit single " One Last Time" for

, reaching no.13 on the Billboard's Hot 100 chart. In 2015 Falk wrote songs like " Broken Arrows" and " Sunset Jesus" for

, " Rest Your Love" for The Vamps, " Your Type" for

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, "Lost & Found" for

and " Devil Pray" For

. His favourite instrument is the guitar as he tries to "always have guitar on my songs, almost like a trademark". Carl can also play multiple other instruments like bass, piano, violin and drums, which he started to learn from an early age on during his childhood. In 2013 Falk won the STIM Platinum guitar prize.

Songwriting Discography

Awards

Falk has won two

Ascap Pop Music Awards The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

with the songs " Starships" and "

", amongst many other of awards and nominations. Falk received two nominations both in 2012 and in 2013 in the Swedish Music Publishers Awards (SMFF). Both years for Songwriter Of The Year and International Achievement. He was also nominated for the 2013 Swedish Music Export Award,

References

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