Daniel Adams-Ray
{{Short description|Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Daniel Adams-Ray
| image = Daniel Adams-Ray 1 - cropped.jpg
| caption = Adams-Ray in 2011
| image_size = 240px
| birth_name = Daniel David John Adams-Ray
| alias = Big Danne
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1983|8|18}}
| birth_place = Nairobi, Kenya
| instrument =
| years_active = 2000–present
| genre = {{hlist|Hip hop|pop}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|rapper|songwriter|fashion designer}}
| label = {{hlist|Sweden Records|Lagom Records}}
| past_member_of = Snook
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100715084051/http://danieladamsray.com/ www.danieladamsray.com]
}}
Daniel David John Adams-Ray (born 18 August 1983) is a Swedish singer, rapper, songwriter, and fashion designer. He rose to prominence as a member of the hip hop duo Snook.
Background
Adams-Ray was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Indonesian-Dutch mother and a Swedish father. His mother was a school administrator and his father a medical surgeon. In 1996, the family left Africa for Europe and lived for a year in the Netherlands, where he played football (soccer) with a very young Arjen Robben.{{cite web |title=Pop i cool förpackning - DN.se |work=Dagens Nyheter |date=21 June 2010 |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/pop-i-cool-forpackning/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624031723/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/pop-i-cool-forpackning-1.1125540 |archive-date=24 June 2010}} Later the family left to Sweden, where they lived in Lidingö,{{Cite web |url=http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/ibeyostudio/pressrelease/view/daniel-adams-ray-goer-solodebut-427891 |title=IBEYOSTUDIO - Daniel Adams-Ray gör solodebut - Mynewsdesk |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009112220/http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/ibeyostudio/pressrelease/view/daniel-adams-ray-goer-solodebut-427891 |archive-date=9 October 2011 |url-status=dead }} an affluent suburb of Stockholm. His parents owned and operated a plastic-surgery clinic in the area.{{cite web |url=http://www.adam-plastikkirurgi.se |title = Adams Plastikkirurgi}} Adams-Ray says he felt very much like an outsider and says he was bullied and called racist slurs. After switching high schools, he started at Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium Odenplan and met Oskar Linnros, his future partner in the band Snook.
He is fluent in English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish. He also speaks quite a bit of Italian and Swahili.{{Cite web |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/skivrecensioner/snook-ar/ |title=Snook: "Är" - DN.se |work=Dagens Nyheter |date=10 May 2006 |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-date=30 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830073125/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/skivrecensioner/snook-ar-1.444455 |url-status=live }}
Career
{{Main|Snook (band)}}
= Snook =
The schoolmates and Oskar Linnros started an alternative hip hop duo group calling it Snook. The duo released two albums: Vi vet inte vart vi ska men vi ska komma dit in 2004 and Är in 2006 receiving both praise and heavy criticism. The band's unorthodox hip hop was met by comments that the band wasn't "keeping it real" and the fact that Adams-Ray spent his teenage years in Lidingö caused critics to label them "upper class rappers".{{cite web |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/skivrecensioner/snook-ar/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830073125/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/skivrecensioner/snook-ar-1.444455 |archive-date=30 August 2010 |title=Snook: "Är" - DN.se|work=Dagens Nyheter |date=10 May 2006 }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.svd.se/opinion/ledarsidan/sa-lange-handerna-ar-i-luften_1492663.svd|title=Så länge händerna är i luften | SVD Ledare|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|date=26 July 2008|last1=Rayman|first1=Sanna}} Despite some critics, the band had many hits, received awards from radio station P3,[https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/p3-guld-hyllar-veteraner-och-nykomlingar/ P3 Guld hyllar veteraner och nykomlingar] Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 13 January 2023. {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} The 2003 Swedish Hip-hop Awards 2003, and best Swedish band at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006. Daniel Adams-Ray won the Swedish freestyle-rap championship in 2004 and was awarded the prize for best Swedish rapper in 2005.
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= Solo =
Adams-Ray and Oskar Linnros drifted apart. Adams-Ray attended the design school Berghs School of Communication{{Cite web |url=http://www.plazakvinna.com/news/fashion/?ID=1556 |title=Daniel Adams-Ray har designat en futuristisk provhytt | PLAZA Kvinna |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715093809/http://www.plazakvinna.com/news/fashion/?ID=1556 |archive-date=15 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} and started the fashion label Lagom. During a fashion show in 2009 he produced some music and this led to new songs (with him singing, not rapping). He says his music might be called Kenyan pop-disco-indie-punk. Influenced range from Motown-disco, afro beat, hip-hop and early 60's surf pop.{{cite web |url=http://www.orebroguiden.com/daniel-adams-ray-gor-solodebut/ |title=Daniel Adams-Ray gör solodebut! | Cityguiden Örebro – Allt om Örebro & mycket mer! |accessdate=29 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309035448/http://www.orebroguiden.com/daniel-adams-ray-gor-solodebut/ |archivedate=9 March 2012 }}
He had also collaborated with fellow Swede Avicii in a new song Somewhere in Stockholm, which belong to his album Stories. Three years later, he collaborated with Avicii again on a song titled "Ghost". For this single, Adams-Ray is credited under the name HUMAN.{{cite news |last1=Meadow |first1=Matthew |title=Avicii Shares New Song He Co-Wrote for HUMAN, "GHOST" |url=https://www.youredm.com/2018/02/10/avicii-shares-new-song-co-wrote-human-ghost/ |work=Your EDM |date=10 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114030359/https://www.youredm.com/2018/02/10/avicii-shares-new-song-co-wrote-human-ghost/ |archive-date=14 January 2024}}
Discography
{{See also|Snook (band)#Discography}}
= Studio albums =
= Singles =
= Featured singles =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"| Song
! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="col" colspan="1"| Chart ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album |
|---|
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| SWE |
| scope="row"| "Pris på mitt huvud" {{small|(Petter featuring Daniel Adams-Ray)}} | 2016 | 75 | Mitt folk |
= Other charted songs =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"| Song
! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="col" colspan="1"| Chart ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album |
|---|
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| SWE |
| scope="row"| "Svart"
| rowspan="2"| 2010 | 46 | rowspan="2"| Svart, vitt och allt däremellan |
| scope="row"| "Gryningspyromanen"
| 52 |
| scope="row"| "Döda hjärtan kan slå igen"
| 2021 | —{{efn-ua|"Döda hjärtan kan slå igen" did not enter the Swedish Singles Chart, but peaked at number four on the Swedish Heatseeker chart.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/215?dspy=2021&dspp=25|title=Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 25|language=sv|publisher=Sverigetopplistan|access-date=24 June 2021}}}} | Döda hjärtan kan slå igen |
Notes
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References
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External links
- http://www.lagom-sthlm.com/
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Category:21st-century Swedish singers
Category:Swedish hip-hop musicians
Category:Swedish male songwriters
Category:Swedish-language singers
Category:English-language singers from Sweden
Category:Swedish people of Kenyan descent
Category:Swedish people of Scottish descent
Category:Swedish people of Indonesian descent
Category:Musicians from Stockholm