Safri Duo is a Danish electronic percussion duo composed of Uffe Savery (born 5 April 1966) and Morten Friis (born 21 August 1968). Initially classically oriented, they later made a track mixing both tribal sound and modern electronica . Released in 2000, " Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song) ", became one of the most popular songs in Europe in 2001. The single and subsequent album, Episode II each sold one million units worldwide, making Safri Duo the most internationally successful Danish act since Aqua .
18-520: The Danish Music Awards (DMA) is a Danish award show. The show has been arranged by IFPI since 1989, and was originally called IFPI-prisen ("IFPI-Award") until 1991, when it changed its name to Dansk Grammy ("Danish Grammy"). It was changed to its current name, Danish Music Awards in 2001, after the American Grammy Awards registered the name "Grammy" as their trademark. In 2011, IFPI joined together with TV2 and KODA to present
36-573: Is the party opening song every night. In 2003 the new album 3.0 was released. It featured Clark Anderson as vocalist on several of the tracks, including "All the People in the World", "Agogo Mosse" and "Laarbasses". The single "Rise" became a huge success and later they released a new version called "Rise (Leave Me Alone)" which featured Clark Anderson on vocals. In 2004 they released a remix album of 3.0 called 3.5 – International Version . It included
54-740: The American Grammy organization objecting, the show would be renamed Danish Music Awards starting 2001. The last Danish "Grammies" were held on 5 February 2000 in the Forum, Frederiksberg . The show was broadcast live on TV 2 , and was hosted by Casper Christensen and Krede . Performances during the show included Det Brune Punktum , Clemens & Petter, Creamy , Marie Frank , Funkstar De Luxe , Hampenberg , Thomas Helmig , Juice , Kashmir , Poul Krebs , Melanie C , Ms Mukupa & Remee and Shirley , Zindy , Daniel, Jonas Winge Leisner , Kuku Agami & Mark Linn from soundtrack of
72-401: The Forum, Frederiksberg . The show was broadcast live on TV 2 , and was hosted by Lars Hjortshøj . Performances during the show included Christian , EyeQ , Sort Sol , Thomas Helmig , DJ Encore , Hampenberg , Barcode Brothers , Westlife , D-A-D , Safri Duo , Swan Lee og Kylie Minogue . The 2003 Danish Music Awards were held on 1 March 2003 in the Forum, Frederiksberg . The show
90-730: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 254753480 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:45:41 GMT Safri Duo Uffe Savery and Morten Friis met in 1977 while attending the Tivoli Garden Boys' Guard, and later, during their time at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music , formed an experimental duo, called Safri Duo, whose name originated from
108-990: The Year was given by the Foreningen af Danske Musikkritikere (Association of Danish Music Critics). KESI feat. Benny Jamz – Mamacita Scarlet Pleasure – Limbo Sort Sol – Stor Langsom Stjerne Suspekt – 100% Jesus Nik & Jay Scarlet Pleasure Sort Sol Suspekt Gulddreng Jacob Dinesen KESI Lis Sørensen Gilli – Helwa Gilli feat. KESI & Sivas – Rica Martin Jensen – Solo Dance Scarlet Pleasure – Déjà vu NODE Off Bloom Skinz Soleima Gulddreng (for among other "Nemt", "Ked Af Det", "Hva' Så", "Utro"og "Drikker For Lidt") Katinka Bjerregaard (for Katinka "Vi er Ikke Kønne Nok Til At Danse") Martin Jensen, Lene Dissing, Peter Bjørnskov og Mads Dyhrberg (for Martin Jensen "Solodance") IFPI Too Many Requests If you report this error to
126-495: The awards ceremony. The 1989 Danish IFPI Awards were held on 25 February 1989 in K.B. Hallen , Frederiksberg . The 1990 Danish IFPI Awards were held on 25 February 1990 in K.B. Hallen , Frederiksberg to be replaced the following year by the Danish Grammy Awards that continued from 1991 until 2000. Award renamed in 1991. 2000 was the last year the awards were held under the title Danish Grammy Awards. After
144-507: The film Den eneste ene . Starting 2001, the awards were held under the name Danish Music Awards after ten years as Danish Grammy Awards. The American Grammies management had protested the use of the name "Grammies" by the Danes and the Danish management was forced to bow to pressure and change the name from Danish Grammy Awards to Danish Music Awards. The first ever Danish Music Awards under
162-648: The first letters of their respective surnames. Several albums were recorded and released through Chandos Records , on which the duo performed pieces by both famous classical (e.g. Bach , Mendelssohn , Ravel , whose works were arranged by Savery and Friis for two marimbas , or for marimba and vibraphone ) and contemporary composers (a.o. Reich , Nørgård , Ter Veldhuis ). Their performances of, especially, Ter Veldhuis' Goldrush , Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and Anders Koppel 's Toccata for vibraphone and marimba are often labelled as small milestones by fellow percussionists , as well as other musicians or people related to
180-473: The former classic line of the duo. A reissue added a second remix-only CD and the single "Sweet Freedom" recorded with Michael McDonald was released on 30 September 2002 (also "Everything" appeared in this CD Single as a B-Side). Two more tracks from Episode II were released as singles, " Samb-Adagio " and "Baya Baya". The Bongo Song became the anthem of the world-famous Coco Bongo super club in Cancún, where it
198-591: The interval of the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 held in Copenhagen . "The Bongo Song" was featured prominently during the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester , England as well as the soundtrack of FIFA Football 2003 . The album, named Episode II , hit the market on 4 June 2001, nine tracks long, all featured the same percussion-electronica combination, except "Adagio" that kept
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#1732790741005216-495: The new name was held on 3 March 2001 in the Forum, Frederiksberg . The inaugural "Danish Music Awards" show was broadcast live on TV 2 , and was hosted by Casper Christensen and Lasse Rimmer . Performances during the show included Anastacia , Bliss , Tim Christensen , DJ Aligator , Erann DD , Filur , Karen , Manic Street Preachers , Outlandish , Rollo & King , Safri Duo , S.O.A.P. , Superheroes and tv·2 . The 2002 Danish Music Awards were held on 2 March 2002 in
234-678: The nominees are women or had women as their main artist. One fourth of the nominees were newcomers. Danish Music Awards 2010 was held at the Bremen Theatre in Copenhagen , Denmark on Sunday 14 November 2010. The host was songwriter and producer Søren Rasted . The show was not shown live on Danish TV. This was the first that the IFPI, World Music Denmark, Jazz Danmark and Folkemusikkens Fælles Sekretariat joined forces and made one joint music award event. The awards were given to 20 different music categories. The prize Steppeulven for Hope of
252-774: The show included L.O.C. , Kevin Lyttle , The Raveonettes , Swan Lee , Jokeren , Burhan G , Tim Christensen , Tue West , Erann DD , Bent Fabric and Blue . 2005 Danish Music Awards were held on 5 March 2005 in K.B. Hallen , Frederiksberg . The show was broadcast live on DR1 , presented by Caroline Henderson and Thomas Madvig . Performances during the show included Nephew , D-A-D , Nik & Jay , Peter Sommer , Saybia , Allan Olsen , Junior Senior , Nobody Beats The Beats , Niarn , Clemens , Ataf and Kira & The Kindred Spirits. The 2006 Danish Music Awards were held on 11 March 2006 in KB-Hallen, Frederiksberg . Show
270-666: The world of classical music. Earlier in 2000, a track named "The Bongo Song" started appearing on clubs' playlists. Produced by Michael Parsberg , it soon got airtime on MTV Europe . The mix between tribal drums over trance proved to be a success, and it ended the year as one of the best selling singles in Europe in 2000 as well as featuring prominently in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. This resulted in Safri Duo guesting along with Danish pop group Aqua during
288-471: Was broadcast live on DR1 , and hosted by Jakob Riising . Performances during the show included Mew , Gavin DeGraw with DR's Big Band, Outlandish , Tina Dickow , Bikstok Røgsystem , Anna David , Johnny Deluxe , Carpark North , Tue West , Anders Matthesen and Kasper Eistrup . The 2007 Danish Music Awards were held on 3 March 2007 in KB-Hallen, Frederiksberg . Show was broadcast live on DR1 , and
306-440: Was broadcast live on TV 2 , and hosted by Timm Vladimir . Live performances included Blue , Tim Christensen , Filur feat. Pernille Rosendahl , Junior Senior , Kashmir , Melanie C , Mew , Nik & Jay , Outlandish , Sanne Salomonsen and tv·2 . 2004 Danish Music Awards was held on 28 February 2004 i the Forum, Frederiksberg . The show was broadcast live on TV 2 , hosted by Timm Vladimir . The performances during
324-539: Was hosted by Jakob Riising . The 2008 Danish Music Awards were held on 23 February 2008 in Glassalen , Tivoli, Copenhagen and was hosted by Jan Gintberg . Performance by these artists: Prizes were given in 22 categories of these are eight different musical genre from children's albums to electronica. 52 different artists or bands had 89 nominations at the Danish Music Awards 2009. More than 46% of
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