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Remee, hitmaker
Remee, Denmark’s most recognisable songwriter, is watching the city awaken.
Everyone in Copenhagen knows who he is. At age 44, Remee is a show-business stalwart. Talented, creative, enthusiastic, he brings people together in his work as both songwriter and music producer (he has written about sixty hits for performers in several countries and has sold 25 million records worldwide). He is a well-known face on Danish TV and owns several of the capital’s nightlife venues, including Arch, a lively, original nightclub with gorgeous lighting and impeccable acoustics. “I started playing drums when I was 12, then I learned to play other instruments, like the guitar, but without a disciplined approach. To this day, I don’t know the names of the chords when I play a song. What interests me is the emotion that flows from it.” He wrote his first hit at the tender age of15, quickly signed a contract with a record company and began churning out chart-topping songs. At 22, the young talent produced the pop duo S.O.A.P. that went on to sell two million records around the world.
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The producer is now the owner of Skindbuksen, Copenhagen’s oldest restaurant, which opened in 1728.
Though Copenhagen’s music scene has long struggled to find a space in the global spotlight, the songwriter believes that the game has changed since the arrival of online platforms like Spotify. “Now everyone has access to all types of music, and music makes life better, right?” He smiles, adding “we live in a flat, cold, grey country far from the big European cities. The Danish mentality was introverted for a long time.
But now that’s all changing – you can feel a different energy, greater openness, new generations coming up with lots of good ideas; we’re on the leading edge of the ecological, gastronomic and architectural scenes, and the kids who are growing up here now are especially lucky, because they have access to every kind of sport, recreation, and the public services are very effective. It’s as though we finally came out of our shell!”
His club, Arch, captures his idea of what it means to party – high-tech and fun-friendly.
