Matoma

Norwegian DJ and record producer

Matoma

Matoma at Stavernfestivalen 2019

Background information
Birth name| Tom Stræte Lagergren
Born|  (1991-05-29) 29 May 1991 (age 34)
Åsnes, Norway
Genres|

* EDM
* R&B
* pop
* dancehall
* house
* tropical house[1]

Occupations|

* Producer
* musician
* DJ

Instruments|

* Digital audio workstation
* piano
* flute
* guitar

Years active| 2014–present
Labels| Warner
Website| hakunamatoma.com

Musical artist

Tom Stræte Lagergren (born 29 May 1991), professionally known as Matoma, is a Norwegian DJ and record producer.

## Early life

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Lagergren was born in Åsnes Municipality, Norway.[2] He started playing the piano as a child.[3][4] During that period, he won a contest to perform alongside Norwegian pianists Håvard Gimse and Leif Ove Andsnes.[5] As he grew tired of classical piano, Lagergren began mixing on his computer. He holds a bachelor's degree in Music Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[4]

## Career

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"Free Fallin Tropical Mojito Remix (John Mayer Tribute)" was produced with fellow tropical house producer Nelsaan and was released on Matoma's 23rd birthday.[6][7]

Matoma was asked by Universal Germany to make a remix of Marlon Roudette's "When the Beat Drops" in July 2014 which was released one month later.[8]

His remix of "Old Thing Back" by The Notorious B.I.G. became popular when it charted in Norway, peaking at number two on VG-lista, the official Norwegian singles chart. It also charted highly in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and New Zealand.[9] It reached number 1 on the music blog aggregator Hype Machine with many record companies including Big Beat Records expressing interest in Matoma's work after hearing the remix. Ja Rule, who is featured on the original track, also tweeted that he loved the track.[9] He also remixed the song "Bailando" at the request of Enrique Iglesias' team.[5]

After musician Hedegaard released his single "Happy Home", he and Matoma had a consultation about a remix of it. This was officially released by Copenhagen Records in September 2014.[10] In October, Matoma's remix of Eminem's "Business" was released.[11] During this month, Warner Music Norway published another remix, the Nelsaan & Matoma Remix of Marit Larsen's "I Don't Want to Talk About It".[12] It is the second remix of Nelsaan and Matoma.

In January 2015, Matoma released a remix of MYNGA featuring Cosmo Klein's "Back Home".[13] In total, Matoma has published more than 136 tracks on his own SoundCloud page.

On 15 October 2016, he collaborated with British boy band, The Vamps to release the single "All Night".[14] An official music video was published by The Vamps. As of February 2019 the single had received 375 million Spotify streams.[15] Matoma and The Vamps' second collaborative single "Staying Up" was released on 1 September 2017.[16]

In 2020 he released his new single "WOW" with singer Emma Steinbakken.[17] In the same year he released a Christmas song titled 'It's Christmas Time' with singer Michael Bolton.

From 2021 to 2022, Matoma served as a coach on the Norwegian version of The Voice. He mentored country singer Erlend Gunstveit to victory in the sixth season, who won the competition on 28 May 2021.[18]

In September 2021, it was announced that Matoma co-founded the AI music tech startup Masterchannel, together with Simon Hestermann and Christian Ringstad Schultz.[19][20] The startup has developed a novel Artificial Intelligence approach to automated music mastering and was awarded 'Norway's Best Creative Tech Startup' in 2022.[21]

## Equipment

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Matoma uses Cubase 8 Pro to produce music and Massive, a Digital audio workstation plugin to program his synth sounds.[22] He also uses piano, guitars and flutes.[22]

## Discography

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Main article: Matoma discography

* Hakuna Matoma (2016)
* One in a Million (2018)

## Awards and nominations

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Year  | Organization  | Award  | Work  | Result

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2017  | Spellemannprisen '16 | Årets Nykommer & Gramostipend
(Newcomer of the Year & Gramo scholarship)  | Matoma  | Nominated
Årets Låt (Song of the Year)  | "False Alarm"

## References

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1. ^ "Top 13 Best Tropical House DJs". Archived from the original on 13 June 2015.
2. ^ Collar, Matt. "Matoma - Biography | Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
3. ^ Lam, Tiffany (5 January 2015). "Exclusive Interview: MATOMA in Canada". In Too The Crowd Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
4. ^ a b "INTERVIEW - MATOMA". Fngrs Crssd. 11 February 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
5. ^ a b Broch, Helene (28 August 2014). "Matoma – sights set on the US". Music Norway. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
6. ^ "Matoma & Nelsaan - Free Fallin Tropical Mojito Remix (John Mayer Tribute)" – via SoundCloud.
7. ^ "YAQUI.CO PREMIERE: Matoma x Nelsaan - Free Falling Tropical Mojito Remix". Retrieved 6 September 2015.
8. ^ "Marlon Roudette - When The Beat Drops Out (Matoma Tropical Remix)" – via SoundCloud.
9. ^ a b Stina Gregersen Karlsen (20 July 2014). "Norske Tom (23) har laget remix for superstjerna Enrique Iglesias - Er dette den neste Kygo?". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 March 2015.
10. ^ Hedegaard - Happy Home (Matoma Remix)
11. ^ Eminem - Business (Matoma Remix)
12. ^ I Don't Want to Talk About It (Nelsaan & Matoma Remix)
13. ^ Mynga - Back Home (Matoma Remix)
14. ^ "All Night – Single by The Vamps & Matoma on iTunes". iTunes. Archived from the original on 26 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
15. ^ All Night by The Vamps on Spotify, retrieved 7 February 2018
16. ^ "The Vamps and Matoma to release new collaboration 'Staying Up'". CelebMix. 26 August 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
17. ^ "Emma Steinbakken - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
18. ^ AS, TV 2. "Erlend vant The Voice: - Det betyr mye". TV 2 (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 May 2021.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
19. ^ Harnes, Magnus Peter (20 September 2021). "Spillgründeren fikk Matoma på laget". Shifter. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
20. ^ Østbø, Stein (20 September 2021). "Matoma inn i gründerselskap". VG. Archived from the original on 11 October 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
21. ^ Nikolaisen, Per-Ivar (15 November 2022). "Matoma-backede musikkgründere utpekt til Norges beste kreativ-startup". Shifter. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
22. ^ a b Mettler, Mike (31 July 2015). "How a Norwegian DJ set Spotify on fire with a tropical Notorious B.I.G. remix". Digital Trends. Retrieved 25 November 2016.

## External links

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* Official website

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Matoma

Discography

Studio albums|

* Hakuna Matoma (2016)
* One in a Million (2018)

Singles|

* "Old Thing Back"
* "Running Out"
* "False Alarm"
* "All Night"
* "Staying Up"
* "Slow"
* "Lonely"
* "I Don't Dance (Without You)"

Featured singles|

* "Try Me"

Other songs|

* "Feeling Right (Everything Is Nice)"

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States

Artists|

* MusicBrainz

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