Avicii

Avicii's story stays with me more than almost any in modern music. Tim Bergling was a bedroom producer from Stockholm who ended up rewiring pop itself, folding folk and country melodies into house music when nobody believed that combination should work. He helped carry electronic music onto Top 40 radio, and the genre never went back. But what I think about most is the cost: the relentless touring, the pressure, a life that ended by suicide at twenty-eight. His catalog still sounds like pure sunlight, which makes the shadow behind it feel heavier. Few artists gave so much joy while carrying so much weight.

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Name (English)

Avicii

Name (Japanese)

アヴィーチー

Reading

あゔぃーちー

Born

September 8, 1989 – April 20, 2018

Origin

Stockholm, Sweden

Occupation

record producer / disc jockey / remixer / musician / fashion model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Awards & achievements

• American Music Awards
• Billboard Music Awards
• MTV Europe Music Awards
• Teen Choice Awards
• World Music Awards
• Musikexportpriset

• Official sitehttps://avicii.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/avicii/
• Xhttps://x.com/Avicii
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicii
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505476

Tags

• record producer
• disc jockey
• remixer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.