"Stranger" is a song by Australian
electronic music
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duo
Peking Duk
Peking Duk are an electronic music group made up of disc jockeys and music producers Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles. The pair first garnered attention in 2012 with the release of a Passion Pit bootleg remix. Their biggest hit "High" reached 5 on ...
featuring Swedish singer
Elliphant
Ellinor Miranda Salome Olovsdotter (born 8 October 1985), known professionally as Elliphant, is a Swedish singer, rapper and songwriter. Her sound was initially created together with the Swedish production duo Jungle, which consists of Tim Den� ...
.
The song was written late in 2015 in Sydney while
Elliphant
Ellinor Miranda Salome Olovsdotter (born 8 October 1985), known professionally as Elliphant, is a Swedish singer, rapper and songwriter. Her sound was initially created together with the Swedish production duo Jungle, which consists of Tim Den� ...
was touring for the Falls Festival. The song was redone by the trio several times over the year. Elliphant is grateful the duo ignored her request "to give it to another artist", saying "I told them that maybe there would be a better person to do 'Stranger' because they weren't satisfied, I wasn't coming up with the vocal they wanted. If I heard it out there with some other girl now I would be so annoyed."
At the
ARIA Music Awards of 2017
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, the song was nominated for three awards, winning
ARIA Award for Song of the Year
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At the
APRA Music Awards of 2018
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, the song won Dance Work of the Year.
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2016 singles
2015 songs
Peking Duk songs
ARIA Award-winning songs
APRA Award winners
Elliphant songs
Sony Music Australia singles
Songs written by Elliphant