TRXD is a Norwegian

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duo made up of Truls Dyrstad (born January 25, 1995) and David Atarodiyan (born January 24, 1992), respectively from

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and

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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

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in Norway, it was a series of coincidences and mutual friends that brought them together.

2015–present

TRXD was signed to

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Norway in 2016 after creating a buzz around their remixes, mainly through American music magazine

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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

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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

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(2020)

References

External links

* {{URL, www.facebook.com/trxdofficial/, TRXD on Facebook Norwegian record producers Musical groups from Oslo