Ronni Vindahl

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Ronni Vindahl{{Cite web|url=http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/91655?ref=camefromrelatedleft|title=Steppeulven – og vinderne er…|website=GAFFA.dk|language=da-DK|access-date=2016-03-07}} is a Danish music producer, composer, re-mixer and musician. He is co-founder of the Copenhagen-based music collective Boom Clap Bachelors,{{Cite web|url=http://bitchslapmag.com/2013/music/ronni-vindahl-interview/|title=Ronni Vindahl interview|website=Bitchslap Magazine Copenhagen|access-date=2016-03-07}} and has worked with artists such as ,{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/M%25C3%2598-No-Mythologies-To-Follow/release/6565815|title=MØ – No Mythologies To Follow|website=Discogs|access-date=2016-03-07}} Avicii,{{Cite web|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=31648|title=Lyrics for "Dear Boy" by Avicii|website=www.songfacts.com|access-date=2016-03-07}} and Kendrick Lamar.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tokyodawn.net/vindahl/|title=Vindahl|website=Tokyo Dawn Records|access-date=2016-03-07}} Vindahl occasionally also writes and records under his own name, and released his first solo album in 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tokyodawn.net/vindahl-serendipity/|title=Vindahl – Serendipity|website=Tokyo Dawn Records|access-date=2016-03-07}} He is Grammy Awards-nominated.

Biography

Ronni began playing guitar at the age of 12, and started producing at 18. It was also around that time that he co-founded the Copenhagen-based music collective Boom Clap Bachelors together with Robin Hannibal.{{Cite web|url=http://swedeandsour.tumblr.com/post/87716904579/ronni-vindahl-may-26th-2014-interview|title=Ronni Vindahl – May 26th, 2014 – Interview|website=swedeandsour.tumblr.com|access-date=2016-03-07}} Their track, Tiden Flyver, later got sampled by Kendrick Lamar on his track "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe".

Vindahl's first international appearance was in 2008, when Gilles Peterson released the Boom Clap Bachelor's track "Combiner" – produced, co- written and performed by Vindahl – on his compilation Brownswood Bubblers. vol. 2 on Gilles Peterson's own record label Brownswood. Peterson also put "Combinér" in rotation on his weekly radio show on BBC1, which gave Vindahl the exposure needed to take his career to the next level.

Upon meeting her in 2012, Vindahl started working with , and solely produced and co-wrote her EP Bikini Daze the same year. The Line of Best Fit praised the EP, giving it an 8/10 score and calling it "sensational".{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/mo-bikini-daze-ep-139375|title=MØ – Bikini Daze EP|website=The Line of Best Fit|access-date=2016-03-07}}

The collaboration with continued on her debut album, No Mythologies to Follow, which was released in 2014. The album, which was co-written, produced and also executively produced by Vindahl, was well received by music critics and won two Danish Gaffa Awards for best pop album and Hit of the year.{{Cite web|url=http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/90343|title=GAFFA-Prisen: Og vinderne er...|website=GAFFA.dk|language=da-DK|access-date=2016-03-07}} Between 2012 and 2014 Vindahl also toured with , playing live guitar.{{Cite web|url=http://swedeandsour.tumblr.com/post/87716904579/ronni-vindahl-may-26th-2014-interview|title=Ronni Vindahl – May 26th, 2014 – Interview|website=swedeandsour.tumblr.com|access-date=2016-03-07}}

In 2011, Vindahl released the first album under his own name, entitled Serendipity. The title refers to term used in science use to describe when one finds something that wasn't intended. Alan Brown at Soul Seduction praised the album, calling it "Drop dead gorgeous like the most beautiful girl you've ever met!".{{Cite web|url=http://www.tokyodawn.net/vindahl-serendipity/|title=Vindahl – Serendipity|website=Tokyo Dawn Records|access-date=2016-03-07}}

In 2015, Vindahl won a Danish Critics Award as best writer, and was also nominated in the best producer-category. The same year, he also won two Danish Writer's Awards for both best pop writer as well as international breakthrough.{{Cite web|url=http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/91658|title=Reportage: Steppeulven 2015|website=GAFFA.dk|language=da-DK|access-date=2016-03-07}}

In 2017 Vindahl launched the record label Beachy Records - a vanity label on Sony Music - where he functions as label manager and A&R manager.

Discography

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!Artist

!Release

!Record Label

!Credit

!Year

Nobody Beats The Beats

|"Drops From Above" (Track)

|Universal Music

|Producer, writer

|2005

Boom Clap Bachelors

|LP (Album)

|Self Released

|Producer, writer, artist

|2005

Outlandish

|Angles lower their wings (single)

|RCA

|Producer, writer

|2006

Boom Clap Bachelors

|"Kort Før Dine Læber" (Album)

|Music for Dreams

|Producer, writer, artist

|2008

Non+

|Sound of Chance (Album)

|EMI

|Producer, writer, artist

|2009

Boom Clap Bachelors

|"Mellem dine Læber" (EP)

|Plug Research

|Producer, writer, artist

|2011

Kris Mars

|"The Traveler" (EP)

|Self Released

|Producer, writer

|2011

Ivory&Gold

|"I" (EP)

|Universal Music

|Producer, writer, artist

|2011

Vindahl

|"Serendipity" (Album)

|Playground Music / Tokyo Dawn Records

|Producer, writer, artist

|2011

Kendrick Lamar

|"Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" (Single)

|Interscope

|Writer

|2012

Kendrick Lamar feat. Emile Sandé

|"Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" (Single Remix)

|Interscope

|Writer

|2012

Kendrick Lamar feat. Jay Z

|"Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" (Single Remix)

|Interscope

|Writer

|2012

Logic (rapper)

|"Addiction" (Single)

|Dej Jam

|Writer

|2012

Ivory&Gold

|"Burst" (Album)

|A:larm

|Producer, writer, artist

|2013

|"Bikini Daze" (EP)

|Chess Club Records / RCA Victor

|Producer, writer

|2013

Avicii

|"Dear Boy"

|Universal Island

|Co-writer

|2013

|"No Mythologies To Follow" (Album)

|Chess Club Records / RCA Victor

|Executive producer, producer, writer

|2014

|"Say You'll Be There" (Single)

|Chess Club Records / RCA Victor

|Re-mixer, producer

|2014

For Akia

|"Recognizer" (Single)

|Sony Music

|Producer

|2015

XOV

|"Lucifer" (Single)

|Sony Music

|Re-mixer

|2015

ANYA

|"BreakUP Battle" (Single)

|Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2016

Scarlet Pleasure

|"Blow"

|Copenhagen Records

|Producer, co-writer.

|2016

|"New Year's Eve" (Single)

|Chess Club Records / RCA Victor

|Co-producer, arranger, mixer

|2016

CASI

|"Lion" (Single)

|Chess Club Records / Roc Nation

|Producer, co-writer

|2016

Lulu James

|"It's the time" (Single)

|White

|Producer, co-writer

|2016

Una Sand

|"Wanderlust" (Single)

|Universal

|Producer, co-writer

|2017

Emma Haga

|"Nosebleed" (Single)

|Starbox/Sony Music

|Producer

|2017

|"When I Was Young" (Single)

|Chess Club Records / RCA Victor

|Writer

|2017

Lazy Weekends

|"Caught Up" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Writer, co-producer

|2018

Springer

|"Wanna Go" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Writer, producer

|2018

Springer

|"Am I" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Writer, producer

|2019

Neigh

|"CmeCry" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Writer, producer

|2019

Alessandra

|"Hollywood" (EP track)

|KUMLA Music

|Writer

|2019

NIIA

|"Pull Up" (Single)

|Atlantic Records

|Co-writer

|2019

Elias Boussnina

|"Come Alive" (Single)

|Universal Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Neigh

|"Maybe" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Neigh

|"Summer" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Springer

|"Protection" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Springer

|"Feels Like" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Høker

|"Ud af Dig" (Single)

|Sony Music

|Co-producer

|2020

Høker

|"Storskærm" (Single)

|Sony Music

|Co-producer

|2020

Springer

|"Tell Me" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Springer

|"Rosie" (Single)

|Beachy Records / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2020

Høker

|"James Dean" (Single)

|Sony Music

|Co-producer

|2021

Høker

|"Plastiliv" (Album)

|Sony Music

|Co-producer

|2021

The Minds of 99

|Under Din Sne" (single)

|No3 / Sony Music

|Co-producer

|2021

|Brad Pitt" (single)

|RCA Victor

|Co-writer

|2021

|Motordrome Album

|RCA Victor

|Producer, co-writer

|2022

Skott

|Evergreen" (single)

|Cosmos

|Producer, co-writer

|2022

Kesi

|Hele Natten (single)

|Universal

|Co-writer

|2022

pinkiscool

|Meant to Be (single)

|Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2022

The Minds of 99

|Infinity Action (EP)

|No3 / Sony Music

|Producer, arranger

|2023

The Minds of 99

|Og Du Blev Til En Hvid Fugl (single)

|No3 / Sony Music

|Producer, arranger

|2023

|Fake Chanel (single)

|RCA Victor

|Producer, co-writer

|2024

|Bad Luckl (single)

|RCA Victor

|Producer, co-writer

|2024

|No Mythologies To follow Anniversary Edition (album)

|RCA Victor

|Producer, co-writer, arranger, mixer.

|2024

Thea Dora

|Enter (EP)

|Tricksy

|Producer, co-writer, arranger, mixer.

|2024

Selma Higgins

|Summertime (single)

|No3 / Sony Music

|Producer, co-writer

|2024

Awards and nominations

2012

  • Bet Hiphop Awards – Album of the Year (Kendrick LamarGood Kid M.A.A.D City) Writer{{Cite web|url=http://www.bet.com/shows/hip-hop-awards/2012.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915011534/http://www.bet.com/shows/hip-hop-awards/2012.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 September 2012|title=BET Hip Hop Awards 2012, Hosted by Mike Epps|website=BET.com|access-date=2016-03-07}}

2013

  • American Music Awards – Favourite Rap/Hip Hop Album (Kendrick LamarGood Kid M.A.A.D City) Writer{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5755250/american-music-awards-2013-full-winners-list|title=American Music Awards 2013: Full Winners List|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2016-03-07}}

2014

2015

  • Danish Critics Award "Steppeulven" – Song of the Year (MØ – Don't Wanna Dance)
  • Danish Critics Award "Steppeulven" – Writer of the Year (Won){{Cite web|url=http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/91658|title=Reportage: Steppeulven 2015|website=GAFFA.dk|language=da-DK|access-date=2016-03-07}}
  • Danish Critics Award "Steppeulven" – Producer of the Year
  • Danish Critics Award "Steppeulven" – Album of the Year (MØ – No Mythologies to Follow) (Won){{Cite web|url=http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/91658|title=Reportage: Steppeulven 2015|website=GAFFA.dk|language=da-DK|access-date=2016-03-07}}
  • Danish Writers Award "Carl-prisen" – Writer of the Year POP (Won)
  • Danish Writers Award "Carl-prisen" – International Break through (Won){{Cite web|url=http://www.musikeren.dk/nyheder/nyhed/artikel/de_vandt_carl_prisen_2015/|title=De vandt Carl Prisen 2015|website=MUSIKEREN|access-date=2016-03-07}}

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