Thomas Kato Vittrup , better known as Kato (born 13 September 1981), is a Danish disc jockey and music producer mostly in the house genre.
13-495: Kato started DJing at nightclubs in 2005 remixing for other artists and independently since 2008, at which time he also started writing and producing his own music. His breakthrough came with the commercial success of the single "Turn the Lights Off", released on 1 January 2010, receiving platinum status for selling 30,000 copies in early August 2010. The track, is a cover version of an earlier hit by DJ Jose from 2007. The track contains
26-556: A Grammy for Best Hip Hop Album and a grant from the Arts Foundation. The same year he collaborated with Swedish rapper Petter and they both toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. In 2001, he released Professionel Bla Bla that won him Best Hip Hop Hit by the P3 station. In 2006 he toured Japan with over 40 shows. He enjoyed a comeback in 2010 with a #1 hit "Champion" on the Tracklisten ,
39-652: The Danish Singles Chart. In June 2011 he released " Fester Kun Med Mig Selv " reaching number 39 on the Danish Singles Chart. He features in the single " Vi Ejer Natten " with Clemens and Hedegaard, which was released in December 2011. He released his third studio album Uden dig on 21 February 2012. 16 April 2007 saw the premiere of the documentary Solo , directed by Kasper Torsting dealing with Jon's story after winning Popstars . The documentary gives an insight into Jon's lonely world where all odds are against him, and
52-565: The Musikk Starts to Play In 2005, Jon returned as a solo artist with the single " Popstar " which was written by Swedish singer Robyn . That same year he released his second solo studio album Today is a Good Day (To Fall in Love) . He released his solo Danish language single in May 2007, entitled "Lidt endnu" (meaning Just yet) In August 2007 landed a job as a radio host on commercial station Radio ABC in
65-657: The inventor of the dab. Jon N%C3%B8rgaard Jon Gade Nørgaard (born 9 June 1985 in Grenå , Denmark ) is a Danish singer who took part in Danish TV 2 's musical competition Popstars in 2002 and winning the title. He is also known as Jon and took the alias John Rock while collaborating with house music duo Musikk . In 2003, Nørgaard released his debut album This Side Up written by Søren Rasted . The album sold 135,000 copies and resulted in two successful singles " Right Here Next to You " and " This Side Up ". The album
78-539: The music is his only resort. Kasper Torsting won two awards during the Odense International Film Festival in 2007: Audience Award and Youth Jury Prize as well as earning a Special Mention during the festival. On 25 January 2008, yet another Danish feature film was released titled Remix directed by Martin Hagbjer. It starred Micky Skeel Hansen as a 16-year-old pop singer Ruben. Remix was inspired by
91-413: The official Danish Singles Chart . Clemens has also written the lyrics of many theatrical acts, including a breakdance version of Nøddeknækkeren (The Nutcracker) that was played every year from 2004 to 2008. Clemens also wrote all the lyrics for the musical Matador in 2007, an opera directed by Peter Langdal and most of the lyrics for the piece 69 in 2008 directed by Niclas Bendixen. Matador musical
104-502: The program Mads og Jon In 2009, his management company IDOLINC released Remady P&R's "No Superstar" throughout Scandinavia . In 2010 Jon returned to the scene appearing in Kato 's hit single " Turn the Lights Off " as one of two tracks from Kato's album Discolized . He also collaborated with Clemens in the hit " Champion " reaching the top of the Danish Singles Chart. In March 2011 Jon released " Dine Øjne " reaching number 14 on
117-622: The single "Sjus" featuring Ida Corr , Camille Jones and Johnson . It is a precursor to Kato's second album Discolized 2.0 due to be released in Spring 2011. Kato won in 2007 and 2009 award for "Best Danish mainstream DJ" at the Danish DeeJay Awards. In 2017, he released the song " Show You Love " with Sigala and Hailee Steinfeld . Kato was the main inspiration for the POPDRENGENE hit "Bawler Ligesom Kato", and has been reported as being
130-590: The true story of Jon Gade Nørgaard. Clemens (entertainer) Clemens Legolas Telling better known as Clemens and MC Clemens (born 8 October 1979 in Roskilde , Denmark ) is a Danish rapper , singer, music writer, actor. Clemens started as a DJ in 1989 and was known as MC Clemens, winning many freestyle prizes in Denmark . In 1997 he had his debut album release Regnskabets Time with commercial success followed up in 1999 with Den Anden Verden . This album won him
143-506: The vocals of Jon (full name Jon Nørgaard), a Danish Popstars contestant. Kato released his first album, Discolized , on 1 March 2010 on the Danish label Disco:Wax that includes collaborations with Jon (Jon Nørgaard), Outlandish , Dr. Alban , Terri B, U$ O and Johnson (Marc Johnson). The album reached #6 on the official Danish Albums Chart. The second single from the album, "Hey Shorty (Yeah Yeah Pt. II)", featuring rappers U$ O and Johnson
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#1733085759650156-545: Was also reissued in an international edition in 2003. In 2004, under the alias John Rock, he began in 2004 in a successful collaboration with house duo Musikk with a number of No. 1 singles on the Danish Dance Chart. Among the hits was a cover version of Climie Fishers " Love Changes (Everything) ". The singles went to No. 1 in 13 countries (including Mexico, Greece and Bulgaria). In 2005, he took part in Musikk's album When
169-662: Was released on 26 April. It was a big hit for Kato reaching #2 on Tracklisten , the official Danish Singles Chart. It sold above 30,000 copies. The album's third single, "Desert Walk", a collaboration with rap group Outlandish sold 15,000 copies making it to #4 in Denmark. On 15 July 2010 it was announced that Kato had signed a contract with Universal Music in Germany including possible release of singles and albums in Germany and promotional appearances on German TV. On 27 December Kato released
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