Sebastian Ingrosso

Producer

Popular As Ingrosso

Birthday April 20, 1983

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Stockholm, Sweden

Age 40 years old

Nationality Sweden

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1983

Sebastian Carmine Ingrosso (born 20 April 1983) is a Swedish DJ and music producer.

He is also a member of the Swedish House Mafia, together with friends Axwell and Steve Angello.

1999

Sebastian Ingrosso entered the music industry in 1999 releasing his first remix through Mega Records.

Since then, he continued to release many remixes and singles.

2003

In 2003 Sebastian Ingrosso founded his own record label – Refune Music.

In later years Ingrosso found himself collaborating mostly with fellow Swedish DJs Axwell, Steve Angello, and Eric Prydz – these four to be dubbed the Swedish House Mafia.

2008

In late 2008, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell formed the Swedish House Mafia with Eric Prydz not joining, saying he is a control freak and cannot abide with collaborations even with close friends.

Around this time Swedish House Mafia released two songs, "Get Dumb" and "Leave the World Behind", however these weren't credited under the group name.

Ingrosso himself collaborated with David Guetta on the songs "Everytime We Touch" and "How Soon is Now" for Guetta's albums Pop Life and One Love respectively.

2009

In 2009 Ingrosso made his debut on the DJ Mag top 100 DJs, charting at number 25, the highest new entry that year.

2010

In 2010, he released his debut album with Swedish House Mafia named Until One.

This followed the release of two success single "One (Your Name)" (featuring Pharrell Williams) and "Miami 2 Ibiza" (featuring Tinie Tempah).

The album also contained solo work by Sebastian Ingrosso such as the songs "Kidos" and "Meich", plus his remix of "Silvia" by Miike Snow.

In addition, Ingrosso made his Tomorrowland debut with Swedish House Mafia and achieved his peaked positions on the DJ Mag poll at number 10 while Swedish House Mafia debuted at number 23.

2011

In May 2011, Sebastian Ingrosso began work on his second album with Swedish House Mafia with the release of the single Save the World featuring vocals from Swedish singer John Martin.

In the summer Swedish House Mafia again performed at Tomorrowland and released two more songs in the winter named "Antidote" and "Greyhound".

2012

In early 2012 Ingrosso released one of his most notable solo tracks with Swedish DJ Alesso (who at the time had recently signed to Ingrosso's record label) and OneRepublic front man Ryan Tedder.

The song named "Calling (Lose My Mind)" became a commercial success certifying 2× Platinum in Sweden.

In July, Swedish House Mafia performed at Tomorrowland for the third consecutive year, this time heading the event and opening Night 2.

In September following a successful summer of live performances, Swedish House Mafia released their most commercially successful track "Don't You Worry Child", again featuring the vocal of John Martin which reach number 1 in Sweden, Australia, and the UK and was a multiplatinum song in many countries.

The same month Sebastian Ingrosso released his collaboration with Tommy Trash entitled "Reload", this along with "Calling (Lose My Mind)" would feature on Swedish House Mafia's second studio/compilation album Until Now.

In November 2012, Swedish House Mafia kicked off their One Last Tour after its announcement in June of that year.

2013

The supergroup stated that the final leg of this tour would be their last and the group would split up after its conclusion at Ultra Music Festival Miami 2013.

At one of their last performances of the tour, at Madison Square Garden Ingrosso famously broke the sound barrier as he was drumming so quickly with his drumpad.

Following the break up Ingrosso returned to his solo music and the song "Reload", adding in the vocals of favourite collaborator John Martin and renaming the song to "Reload (Take My Hand)".

This allowed the song to become a commercial success certifying in Sweden and the UK and becoming a chart hit in many countries.

In July, Sebastian Ingrosso made his Tomorrowland debut as a solo artist, performing the main stage on Night 1.

Despite the break up of the Swedish House Mafia, Ingrosso collaborated with Axwell on "Roar" for the Monsters University Soundtrack in early 2013.

In October, Ingrosso made a new peak on the DJ Mag top 100 DJs achieving number 18.

2014

Sebastian Ingrosso joined forces with Axwell, debuting their new collective at the 2014 Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City – their new group named Axwell Λ Ingrosso, this followed the release of their debut EP X4.

One of the songs from this EP, "We Come, We Rave, We Love", was the final version of a song started by Swedish House Mafia and was played frequently during their One Last Tour.

A single, "Something New" was released from the EP in November of that year.

2015

In the early months of 2015 Ingrosso released his second and third single under the Axwell Λ Ingrosso collaboration entitled "On My Way" and "Can't Hold Us Down" respectively.

In June, the duo released their fourth single named "Sun Is Shining".

This song became number 1 in Sweden and was Ingrosso's (and Axwell's) first number 1 since "Don't You Worry Child".

In July the duo headlined Tomorrowland closing Night Two.

In November 2015 "This Time" was released under Axwell Λ Ingrosso and "Dream Bigger" on New Year's Eve.

2016

2016 saw Sebastian Ingrosso's first releases as an individual since "Roar", releasing two songs, "FLAGS!"

and "Dark River".

The latter of the two would feature on Axwell Λ Ingrosso's debut album More Than You Know.