Peder Losnegård (born 26 October 1992), better known by his

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'', as well as co-writing and producing several songs on '' Hopeless Fountain Kingdom'' and '' Manic''. Lido has also notably produced for

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, Jaden Smith,

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, A$AP Ferg, Smino, and BANKS, among others.

Career

Losnegård started as a drummer. He then began writing songs and playing the piano. He participated in

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, under the name Lil'P. This stage name was the origin of the name LidoLido. During the next five years LidoLido gave out five free mixtapes online, including a trilogy: "Play Loud Music", "The Fresh Breath" and "The Good Guy Mixtape." He also released his first official single, "Go'n Be Gone", on the Fairplay Entertainment label. After the release, Losnegård appeared on NRK's Lydverket, and signed a record deal with Universal Music Norway. Losnegård's first breakthrough single came in 2011: "Different", the year's most played song on NRK P3. On 3 February 2012 he released his debut album ''Pretty Girls & Grey Sweaters'' with Universal Music. At age 19, Losnegård won the

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in the popular music category with that album. Losnegård synthesized the entire album, with

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, Jarle Bernhoft, Timbuktu, Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Ole Edvard Antonsen as guests. The album went platinum in Norway. For the album, he also received a Gramo^:no:Gramo scholarship and was awarded "Newcomer of the Year" at Spellemannprisen 2012. "Turn Up The Life", featuring Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Timbuktu, was played at the ceremony and became a hit. In 2013 he released ''Battle Poetry'' and opened for Beyonce at the

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. Losnegård focused on production during 2014 and 2015, executive producing Halsey's debut album, ''

''. He then signed a publishing deal with

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and moved to Los Angeles. Lido's first album, ''Everything'' was released through Because Music in October 2016. Since the debut of his album at

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and his single "Crazy", he worked as executive producer with Rick Rubin on

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's debut studio album, ''WWW''. Lido later played with Towkio on the Tonight Show with

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. He played international festivals in 2016, including at Splendour In The Grass. He also

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Kanye West and

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's '' Kids See Ghosts'' into a seven-minute track titled "Kid's Love Ghosts", after doing a similar feat with West's entire '' The Life of Pablo'' two years earlier, that time with an eight-minute track.

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's '' Coloring Book'' album, which Lido produced on, won two Grammy Awards for "Best rap artist" and "Best new performance" in 2017. In 2018 Lido signed a publishing deal with Rick Rubin's American Recordings under Pulse Music Group, producing five tracks for Chance the Rapper and collaborating with Skrillex on

's and Ty Dolla Sign's "The Distance". Lido signed a deal with Warner Records as an A&R at the company. He released a series of EPs, including the singles "3 Million" in 2018, and his collaboration with Norwegian RnB artist

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, "Corner Love". Lido performed "Corner Love" on National Norwegian TV's Lindmo. Lido accompanied the "I O U" EP series with a short film with a limited theater release across North America. Losnegård was also involved in production of music for the 2019 anime '' Carole & Tuesday''. He composed the song "Move Mountains" and "Not Afraid", which are sung by Alisa as the singing voice of the character Angela. "Not Afraid" is used as the anime's ending song starting from episode 13.

Discography

*''Pretty Girls & Grey Sweaters'' (2012) *''Battle Poetry'' (2013) *''I Love You'' (2014) *''The Passion Project'' (2015) *''Everything'' (2016) *''The Passion Project II'' (2017) *''Spacesuit'' (2018) *''IOU 1'' (2018) *''IOU 2'' (2018) *''PEDER'' (2020)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

LidoLido official websiteGood Guys TV YouTubeLido official website
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