William Wiik Larsen
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | William Wiik Larsen |
| Born |
September 15, 1986 Oslo, Norway |
| Genres | Pop, Hip hop, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | IDAP, BMG |
| Associated acts | Train, Nico & Vinz, Kygo, Florida Georgia Line, Maty Noyes, Akon, Method Man & Redman, Tish Hyman, Jessie J, Stargate |
William Wiik Larsen (born 15 September 1986) better known by his stage name Will IDAP, is a Norwegian record producer and songwriter. After crafting many multi-platinum songs in his home country, he has produced and co-written several global and US hits like "Am I Wrong" for Nico & Vinz ,"H.O.L.Y." for Florida Georgia Line, "Stay" for Kygo and "Play That Song" for Train. He currently resides in Los Angeles CA.
Larsen was born in Oslo, Norway. His father was a professional musician in the 80’s, and his mother a singer. Having an substantial musical influence as a child got him pursuing the same path, and at an early age he started experimenting with instruments, drum machines, keyboards and turntables. At the age of 6 he started playing the drums in the school band. He later moved on to study drums and percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Norges Musikkhøyskole) at the age of 10. At age 14, Larsen started to enter Scandinavian DJ competitions, among them the DMC National DJ Championships which he won 2005 and 2006, to go on to represent Norway in the World finals (DMC World DJ Championships).
In 2004, Larsen joined the music-collective and record label Pass It Records, where he released the official mixtape Homework the same year. During his time at Pass It Records he was a tour DJ for several of the countries hip hop acts. In 2005 he stopped DJ’ing and went on to solely focus on music production under the name Nasty Kutt.
In 2007, his longtime collaborator, manager and Pass It owner/founder/managing director, Julian Alexander, decided to close down Pass It Records. The pair then decided to work together on launching their own production and publishing company IDAP Music in 2008.
In the years to come, Larsen worked in the Norwegian music industry as a hip hop/pop producer with 21 IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) Certifications, 5 of them being multi-platinum.
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