Rasmus Peter Faber (born 16 May 1979) is a Swedish pianist, DJ,

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, composer, record producer,

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, and founder of the record label Farplane Records. He is notable in the

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genre, and performs solo as a DJ and pianist, and live with his band the RaFa Orchestra. Over the last decade, Faber has become better known as a composer of music for anime, computer games, advertising, and virtual reality worlds.

Early life

Following his musical education, Faber started working as a

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, pianist, and musical director for local acts in Sweden.

Producer career

In 2002, Faber released his first collaboration single "Never Felt So Fly" with Melo produced by British record label Black Vinyl Records. After its success, his career and reputation grew quickly, and Rasmus started collaborating with big dance label

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, and achieved further success and notoriety with his remix of

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's E Samba. The first single on the label was "Ever After" featuring singer Emily McEwan, which was a successful club hit worldwide. Over the last decade, Faber has become producer of exotic instruments (and performers), including the nyckelharpa and tongue drum (used on YouTube virtual celebrity project Artiswitch). His down-tempo single, "Be Real", has become his most popular release to date with more than 24 million streams on Spotify and counting.

RaFa Orchestra

Since 2009, Faber has been playing his songs live, together with a group of ten musicians and singers forming the RaFa Orchestra. Selected venues they have played include Billboard Live Tokyo/Osaka; Java Jazz Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia; the Southport Weekender Festival.

Discography

Music department

Composer

Awards and nominations

References

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