Kaelyn Behr, known professionally as Styalz Fuego, is an Australian

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and artist based in

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. Styalz is renowned for his diverse production and songwriting, and most known for his eclectic take on hip-hop,

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, R&B and

K-Pop K-pop (), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gos ...

. Styalz's accomplishments include the 2017 ARIA Song of the Year, 2012 ARIA Producer of the Year, Note: User may be required to access archived information by selecting 'The History', then 'By Award', 'Producer of the Year' and 'Option Show Nominations'. 2013 APRA Breakthrough Songwriter Award and 2016 and 2018 APRA Most Played Australian Work awards and integral involvement in many multi-platinum, ARIA award-winning projects across his career in Australia, UK, USA and

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. He has been based in

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since 2003.

Early career

Fuego was born in San Francisco Bay, California. In 2007, Styalz produced

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’s hit " Not a Criminal" featuring

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, which received negative reviews for its lacklustre lyrics and a pointless

cameo. Around this time, he also began to remix a number of songs for artists including

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, and Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High character Mr. G.

Career

In 2013, Fuego co-wrote the song "Astronaut" for UK singer/songwriter Joel Compass, which was added to BBC 1. Styalz was involved in a string of multi-platinum singles from

Peking Duk Peking Duk are an electronic music group made up of disc jockeys and music producers Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles. The pair first garnered attention in 2012 with the release of a Passion Pit bootleg remix. Their biggest hit "High (Peking Duk so ...

including the 2017 ARIA Song of The Year and 3× Platinum Stranger with

Elliphant Ellinor Miranda Salome Olovsdotter (born 8 October 1985), known professionally as Elliphant, is a Swedish singer, rapper and songwriter. Her sound was initially created together with the Swedish production duo Jungle, which consists of Tim Den� ...

, the 4× Platinum single Take Me Over with Safia and Platinum Let You Down with

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. Styalz also co-produced Bliss n Eso's 2× Platinum single Moments with Gavin James, The Aston Shuffle's Gold single Tear It Down, Seth Sentry's Gold album This Was Tomorrow and Drapht's ARIA Award-winning Seven Mirrors album. Styalz has seen an array of international releases, including the “Most Tweeted About Song of 2017” Korean supergroup EXO's smash single Kokobop, which propelled EXO's album The War to #1 in 41 countries on

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and now sits at over 1.5 million sales, including a Korean record 800,000 physical pre-orders. Through his other work in South Korea, Styalz also co-produced tracks for

royalty in

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, Nu’Est,

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and

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. Styalz also worked on Ride or Die for

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, Phases for ALMA and

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, Momma Always Told Me for G-Eazy, Certified for Wiley and co-produced numerous Destructo singles with

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and Starrah.

Vocals

In October 2013, Fuego's first official credit as a vocalist - under his given name Kaelyn Behr on the

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collaboration "Remember" from

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's Axtone label - premiered on

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Awards

* 2012 ARIA Producer of the Year * 2013 APRA Breakthrough Songwriter * 2015 ARIA Urban Release of The Year (Seth Sentry - Strange New Past) * 2016 APRA Most Played Australian Work (Peking Duk - 'Take Me Over’) * 2016 APRA Dance Release of The Year (Peking Duk - 'Take Me Over’) * 2016 ARIA Urban Release of The Year (Drapht - Seven Mirrors) * 2017 ARIA Song Of The Year (Peking Duk feat. Elliphant - 'Stranger') * 2018 APRA Most Played Australian Work (Peking Duk - ’Stranger’) * 2018 APRA Dance Release of The Year (Peking Duk - ’Stranger’)

Discography

Production / Co-Writes / Vocals / Remixes

'96 Bulls Remixes

References

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