| Bloodshy & Avant | |
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| Birth name | Christian Karlsson Pontus Winnberg |
| Also known as | Karlsson & Winnberg, Miike Snow, Robotberget |
| Origin | Sweden |
| Genres | Pop Dance Electro Synthpop Electroclash Rhythmic Contemporary |
| Occupations | DJ, Record producer, Songwriter |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Associated acts | Britney Spears, Miike Snow, Henrik Jonback |
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| Christian Karlsson Pontus Winnberg |
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Bloodshy and Avant are a music production and songwriting team from Sweden made up of Christian Karlsson (Bloodshy) and Pontus Winnberg (Avant)
The duo have worked with a number of high-profile artists, including Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Ms. Dynamite, Christina Milian, Kelis and Jennifer Lopez. Britney Spears' 2004 hit single, "Toxic", which they co-wrote and produced, went on to win the "Record Of The Year" at the 2005 Grammy awards, and became biggest selling single of the decade in the world. Also her 2007 hit single "Piece of Me" went on to win 3 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year.
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Christian Karlsson began his music career as a rapper, and under the alias "Serious" was a member of the Swedish hip-hop group Goldmine. [1] The label they were signed to, Pitch Control AB, was run by Christian Wåhlberg - who would later go on to co-found Murlyn Music and manage Bloodshy & Avant - and it was Wåhlberg that convinced Karlsson to stop rapping and become a songwriter-producer instead.[1]
Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with USA singer/songwriter Christina Milian for her debut album.[2] The collaboration resulted in two hit singles, "AM to PM," and "When You Look at Me," both of which hit number three on the UK Singles Chart.
They were then commissioned to work with UK hip-hop singer/rapper, Ms. Dynamite, and BRIT Award-winning English pop group Sugababes. The collaboration with Ms. Dynamite resulted in several tracks which appeared on her debut album, A Little Deeper, including her hit debut single, "It Takes More". They also produced tracks for her 2005 second release, Judgement Days.[3]
Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced two songs which appeared on Britney Spears' 2003 album In the Zone: the hit single, "Toxic", that merited a Grammy award; and "Showdown". They also produced all the three new songs on her 2004 Greatest Hits: My Prerogative album and the theme song for Britney & Kevin: Chaotic series. They subsequently worked with Spears on her fifth studio album, Blackout, for which they collaborated with Spears on four songs: the hit single, "Piece of Me", "Radar", "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier"; and again on her 2008 follow-up album Circus, for which they produced the songs "Unusual You", "Phonography" and "Trouble", the latter two appeared only as bonus tracks. Bloodshy alone co-produced two songs for Britney Spears' 7th studio album Femme Fatale, "How I Roll" and "Trip to Your Heart".
The duo co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna for her 2005 album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, entitled "How High" and "Like It or Not".[4]
In 2007, for Kylie Minogue's 10th studio album X, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced "Speakerphone", "Nu-di-ty" and "Cherry Bomb", the latter appeared only on CD singles.
In 2008, Bloodshy and Avant produced few songs for BoA's English debut BoA. A year later they produced "Chocolate Love" for South Korean girl groups Girls' Generation and f(x).
In 2010 they started working with Sky Ferreira on her debut album and produced songs "One" and "17".
Bloodshy & Avant have also gained fame by remixes. They have remixed songs from Britney Spears including a remix for "Piece of Me" which charted number one on the US Billboard Hot Club Play chart. Also other remixes for "Toxic" and "Me Against the Music" have topped the US Billboard charts.
Outside of being Bloodshy and Avant, Christian and Pontus are in a band together with Andrew Wyatt called Miike Snow.[5] They also run a label called Ändersson with signed artists and musicians including Little Majorette, Sky Ferreira, and Meadow, a project with their friends Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello scheduled for release in 2009. They are also working on the music for a videogame with EA Games/Dice to be released in 2010.
Bloodshy and Avant own a studio based in a 150 year old firestation in the middle of Söder, Stockholm.
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