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, Max Martin,

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. Cavazza is well known as a good friend of the Swedish producer

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. Together they made two songs ("Gonna Love Ya" and "Sunset Jesus") for Avicii's album ''

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''. Cavazza also features on " Without You" which was nominated for a

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in 2017. During a road-trip through America, Avicii and Cavazza made multiple songs together. After Avicii's death in 2018, only "Forever Yours" was released in 2020, after it was finished by the Norwegian producer Kygo.

Personal life

In an interview in June 2018, Cavazza described his background as "very Swedish and part Italian", consisting of Sunday dinners with his Italian family partnered with a very secure social system in Sweden. This allowed him the opportunity to attend music school. On November 23, 2021, Cavazza announced that he was going to "end his career" as an artist, claiming the reasons to be that "some things like social media, competition and being at the center of attention do not make me happy." He intends to focus on his career as a songwriter and has one final concert planned for Stockholm in 2022.

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Non-single album appearances

Notes

References

Living people 1992 births Musicians from Stockholm Singers from Stockholm Swedish male singer-songwriters Swedish singer-songwriters Swedish pop singers Swedish songwriters English-language singers from Sweden 21st-century Swedish singers Swedish people of Italian descent 21st-century Swedish male singers {{Sweden-musician-stub