TRXD is a Norwegian
music production
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duo made up of Truls Dyrstad (born January 25, 1995) and David Atarodiyan (born January 24, 1992), respectively from
Mandal
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and
Oslo
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. The name "TRXD" came from the idea "Truls x David", and is supposed to represent both of their given names.
Career

Truls Dyrstad showed an early interest in music, and started playing the guitar at a young age before he started to produce music later on. David Atarodiyan didn't start playing or making music until his teens, but quit his job and went on a hiatus abroad to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible. Although they both studied at the
University of Agder in Norway, it was a series of coincidences and mutual friends that brought them together.
2015–present
TRXD was signed to
Warner Music
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Norway in 2016 after creating a buzz around their remixes, mainly through American music magazine
Billboard
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. They released their first single "Wherever You Go" (featuring Hilde) in April 2016, and the song sold to double platinum by the end of the year.
The song also got listed on the official Norwegian chart
VG-lista
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for more than seven weeks, which gave them an opportunity to perform at their official tour 2016. The duo makes vocal
EMD-music, but usually don’t sing on their own releases. This has led them to work with other artist, songwriters and vocalists on most of their projects.
TRXD was booked to perform at the Norwegian industry festival
by:Larm 2017.
Discography
Singles
* "Wherever You Go" featuring Hilde (2016)
* "Down With the River" featuring
Skinny Days (2016)
* "Our City" featuring
Emilie Adams (2017)
* "Our City" featuring Emilie Adams (acoustic) (2017)
* "Crazy" (2017)
* "Venn" with
Oslo Soul Children featuring Ramón (2017)
* "Above the Water" featuring
Angelina Jordan
Angelina Jordan (born Angelina Jordan Astar; 10 January 2006) is a Norwegian singer whose audition for the 2014 season of '' Norway's Got Talent'', singing "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday, became a viral video online and brought h ...
(2020)
References
External links
* {{URL, www.facebook.com/trxdofficial/, TRXD on Facebook
Norwegian record producers
Musical groups from Oslo