Biography
The singer Mø for 7 years tried to become famous, independently invented texts and music for songs that regularly recorded and represented listeners. But the real glory came to the girl only in 2014, after the release of the debut plate, most of the tracks from it became real hits.Childhood and youth
The biography of the future artist began in the village of UBBBRUD, near the Danish city of Odense, in August 1988. She spent his childhood on the island of Funen. Her father worked as a psychologist, and the mother teacher, also in the family brought up the elder brother of the girl, who now works by a doctor. The real name of the singer - Karen Marie Earsted.
Karen was 7 years old when she was fascinated by music, at that time her idol was the British female pop group Spice Girls. And being a teenager, she began to listen to punk teams, including Black Flag, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
But she especially liked the guys from Sonic Youth, at Vocalist Kima Gordon Dane watched as a hero and considered the role model. At school, she began his friends with classmates who fan in similar teams, and together with them participated in political rallies against Danish ultra-right parties.
Music
Already in 2007, Mø tried to write songs, some of them even got on Youtube, but it did not bring the girl popularity, and soon she decides to create a group. Together with the girlfriend organized a duet and even managed to release 2 mini-records. In 2009, the world saw their collection "Pussy In Your Face", and in 2011 - Madness Hours.The actress itself describes this music as a feminist punk rock, 5 years old she went to Europe with concerts. True, it also did not glorify the actress among the general public. Yes, and the relationship over the years in the team began to deteriorate, and in 2012 she broke up.
From that moment on, Karen decided to work as a solo artist, came up with a pseudonym mø. The girl started writing rap, but over time switched to pop songs. Very soon, her work became interested in producer Ronnie Vindal. Ersted herself wrote texts and melodies (composed them mainly on the piano) and sent a man who brought the composition to the mind.
The windows and helped create a debut single "Glass", and after 2 months, the singer presented the hit compositions "Pilgrim" and "Maiden". Her songs one after another began to lead in popular Danish and American charts, and leading labels were interested in her person.
From the offer of the Sony Music Entertainment Sonic Studio, it could not refuse. The artist they liked that it was, representatives of the company were not going to change its image or songs and offered to promote her own material.
Her first solo mini-album appeared in October 2013, he was called "Bikini Daze" and contained only 4 songs. And after six months, MØ introduced the debut full-format plate "No Mythologies to Follow", consisting of 12 tracks. In her support, the girl went to the tour in the cities of Europe and the United States, he began in spring, and ended in the summer of 2014.
Several songs got into American charts, and then Karen herself first appeared on the television of America in the live broadcast of Jimmy Kimmel, in the studio she performed the song "Don't Wanna Dance" and "Pilgrim". And later I submitted the "Walk This Way" track and announced new dates of Tour in America and Canada. By the end of this year, the singer presented Danish Music Awards awards in 4 nominations.
By the end of 2014, the fans of the Dane was waiting for a new surprise in the form of a single Year's Eve single and a clip shot on it. Because it was a New Year's gift to listeners, first time on the SoundCloud service he was distributed free. Also this year, the girl graduated with joint work with Iggy Azalia ("Beg for It") and Ellinor Castotsdotter ("One More").
In March 2015, Mø worked with the Yamaican-American Trio Major Lazer and DJ Snake, created with them the song "Lean ON", which became a real breakthrough, blew up charts around the world, and in the UK, the United States, France, Germany and Sweden entered The top five leaders and became the most-selling song of this year. In April, the musicians removed the video to the single, who quickly conquered the audience Youtube and scored several million views in the first week.
Video "Kamikaze" The artist went to shoot in Kiev, the premiere of Single took place in October 2015. As a location, producers chose the well-known area of the Ukrainian capital - Troyeschina. Subsequently, this song has become a component of the second studio album, as well as the "Final Song" composition. Swedish singer Noney Bao and British Mnek helped it helped it. In the British Chart, the track took the 15th place and entered the top 40 of the best in more than 10 countries of the world.
In 2016, Mø was again lucky enough to work with Major Lazer and Justin Biber, with them the girl created another single "Cold Water", which debuted at the 2nd position in the Billboard Hot 100. Not having time to enjoy the success of his own work, in October And the singer again releases the song "Drum".
In October 2017, there is a second mini-plate "WHEN I WAS YOUNG", and after 2 weeks, the video is removed on the song of the same name. The basis of his idea was the picture of Edward Minka "Dance of Life". Further, the artist is waiting for a tour of North America with a Norwegian musician Cashmere Cat.
The second full-length album fans saw only in the fall of 2018. The "Forever Neverland" record appeared in the discography recorded when collided with the COLUMBIA RECORDS recording studio, it was preceded by the "Red Wine" singles, "Sun in Our Eyes", "Way Down", "Imaginary Friend" and "Blur" (together with Foster The People), as well as some remixes.
Personal life
At 22, Odense, Mø moved to Copenhagen, there she has its own apartment. However, it often visits relatives. In the past house, she had a room that the girl was re-equipped into a mini-studio, so, even being visiting the family, it has the ability to record tracks.
When in 2014 the singer visited Moscow with a concert, she wanted to do something memorable related to Russia. Pussy Riot At that time were popular around the world, and Mø also called the girls with their heroes, so I decided to capture the image on the body with the Balaklava of this team.
The personal life of the Dane prefers not to spread, information about its husband or a guy appeared on the network. But it is obvious that she has no children, the girl is still dedicated to his career. It is well noticeable by her profile in "Instagram", where she regularly publishes photos from solo spokes and performances at festivals.
Mø now
Mø and now continues to perform at concerts, record new songs, and also often becomes a guest of various ethers.For example, in the spring of 2019, she performed Blur in the evening American show "Tonight Show". And after went to the tour of the UK with the Rock group Panic! AT The Disco. At the end of June, appeared in front of the audience the annual Glastonbury festival.
Discography
- 2013 - "Bikini Daze"
- 2014 - NO MYTHOLOGIES TO FOLLOW
- 2017 - "WHEN I WAS YOUNG"
- 2018 - "FOREVER NEVERLAND"