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Styalz Fuego

Styalz Fuego

Australian musical artist


Kaelyn Behr, known professionally as Styalz Fuego, is an Australian music producer, songwriter, vocalist and artist based in Melbourne. Styalz is renowned for his diverse production and songwriting, and most known for his eclectic take on hip-hop, electronic, R&B and K-Pop.

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Styalz's accomplishments include the 2017 ARIA Song of the Year, 2012 ARIA Producer of the Year,[1][2] 2013 APRA Breakthrough Songwriter Award and 2016 and 2018 APRA Most Played Australian Work awards and integral involvement in many multi-platinum, ARIA award-winning projects across his career in Australia, UK, USA and South Korea.

He has been based in Melbourne, Australia since 2003.

Early career

Fuego was born in San Francisco Bay, California. [citation needed] In 2007, Styalz produced Chamillionaire’s hit "Not a Criminal" featuring Kelis, which received negative reviews for its lacklustre lyrics and a pointless Kelis cameo.[3] Around this time, he also began to remix a number of songs for artists including Sneaky Sound System, Savage, and Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High character Mr. G.[citation needed]

Career

In 2013, Fuego co-wrote the song "Astronaut" for UK singer/songwriter Joel Compass, which was added to BBC 1.[4]

Styalz was involved in a string of multi-platinum singles from Peking Duk including the 2017 ARIA Song of The Year and 3× Platinum Stranger[5] with Elliphant,[6] the 4× Platinum single Take Me Over with Safia and Platinum Let You Down with Icona Pop. Styalz also co-produced Bliss n Eso's 2× Platinum single Moments with Gavin James,[7] The Aston Shuffle's Gold single Tear It Down, Seth Sentry's Gold album This Was Tomorrow and Drapht's ARIA Award-winning Seven Mirrors album.[8]

Styalz has seen an array of international releases, including the “Most Tweeted About Song of 2017”[9] Korean supergroup EXO's smash single Kokobop,[10] which propelled EXO's album The War to #1 in 41 countries on iTunes and now sits at over 1.5 million sales, including a Korean record 800,000 physical pre-orders. Through his other work in South Korea, Styalz also co-produced tracks for K-Pop royalty in EXO-CBX, Nu’Est, TVXQ and Henry Lau.

Styalz also worked on Ride or Die[11] for The Knocks & Foster The People, Phases[12] for ALMA and French Montana, Momma Always Told Me for G-Eazy,[13] Certified for Wiley and co-produced numerous Destructo singles with Ty Dolla $ign, Pusha T, E-40, Too Short, ILoveMakonnen and Starrah.

Vocals

In October 2013, Fuego's first official credit as a vocalist - under his given name Kaelyn Behr on the Thomas Gold collaboration "Remember" from Axwell's Axtone label - premiered on Danny Howard's BBC Radio 1 Show[14]

Awards

  • 2012 ARIA Producer of the Year[15][16][17]
  • 2013 APRA Breakthrough Songwriter[18][19]
  • 2015 ARIA Urban Release of The Year (Seth Sentry - Strange New Past)[20]
  • 2016 APRA Most Played Australian Work (Peking Duk - 'Take Me Over’)[21]
  • 2016 APRA Dance Release of The Year (Peking Duk - 'Take Me Over’)[22]
  • 2016 ARIA Urban Release of The Year (Drapht - Seven Mirrors)[20]
  • 2017 ARIA Song Of The Year (Peking Duk feat. Elliphant - 'Stranger')[23]
  • 2018 APRA Most Played Australian Work (Peking Duk - ’Stranger’)[24]
  • 2018 APRA Dance Release of The Year (Peking Duk - ’Stranger’)[25]

Discography

Production / Co-Writes / Vocals / Remixes

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References

  1. "Winners by Award – Producer of the Year". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  2. "17th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2004. Retrieved 5 November 2016. Note: User may be required to access archived information by selecting 'The History', then 'By Award', 'Producer of the Year' and 'Option Show Nominations'.
  3. "Not a Criminal". About. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  4. "Joel Compass – Astronaut EP". Black Butter. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  5. Duk, Peking. "Peking Duk - Stranger ft. Elliphant". Retrieved 21 November 2016 via Youtube.
  6. Staff. "Singles Accreds 2018". Aria. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  7. Staff. "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2019 Singles". Aria. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  8. Herman, Tamar. "BTS And Other K-Pop Boy Bands Dominated Twitter In 2017". Forbes. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  9. SMTOWN. "EXO 엑소 'Ko Ko Bop' MV". Retrieved 18 July 2017 via Youtube.
  10. ALMA. "Phases". Spotify.com.
  11. G-Eazy. "The Beautiful & Damned". Spotify.com.
  12. "Joel Compass – Astronaut EP". BBC. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  13. "Northern Rivers a hotspot for ARIA winners". NorthernStar. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  14. "Winners By Year". ARIA Awards. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  15. "Rocking the ARIA red carpet". News.com. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  16. "Breakthrough Award". APRA Amcos. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  17. Staff. "ARIA Awards". ariaawards.com.au.
  18. Staff. "Most Played Australian Work". apraamcos.com.au.
  19. Staff. "2016 APRA Music Award Winners Announced". apraamcos.com.au. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  20. Staff. "Most Played Australian Work". apraamcos.com.au.
  21. Staff. "Dance Work Of The Year". apraamcos.com.au.
  22. Staff (30 June 2019). "JXN unveils new track 'Going Off' feat. A$AP TWELVYY". Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  23. Staff (30 September 2011). "360 – Falling & Flying: Track By Track". Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  24. Sentry, Seth. "Float Away - Seth Sentry". Band Camp.

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