Kim Ofstad

Kim Ofstad (born 25 November 1969 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer. He is best known from collaborations in the pop/soul band D'Sound where he was a member from its inception in 1993 to 2010.^[1]

Career

Ofstad got his first drum kit when he was eight years old, and slightly older joined a brass band. He describes his teens as hybridic, as he felt equally at home in jazz clubs as in discotheques. He is a graduate of Heimdal videregående skole where he got his Examen artium in 1988, and studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, whence he moved to Oslo, the capital of Norway, in 1991. Here he formed D'Sound (1993) together with Jonny Sjo, a fellow student from Boston, he played with Sofian Benzaim. Ofstad contributed for some time in Knut Værnes Trio, and has also recorded an album with Ab und Zu (1996) winning the Smuget award the year after (1997). Together with Audun Kleive he constituted a plain drum duet in 2008.

Ofstad is now a member of the production duo ELEMENT together with Hitesh Ceon, and accounted together with Jonny Sjo for the previous 3Elementz. Their productions include «Beggin'» med Madcon as well as the album An InCONvenient Truth, two tunes with English X Factor the winner Alexandra Burke, and reproduction of two tracks with Michael Jackson for Motown Records in USA and England.^[2]

Discography

Witin the trio Værnes/Ofstad/Berg

• 1995: Jacques Tati (Curling Legs)

Witin D'Sound

• 1996: Spice of Life (PolyGram)
• 1998: Beauty Is a Blessing (PolyGram)
• 2001: Talkin' Talk (Virgin Records)
• 2003: Doublehearted (Da Works)
• 2005: My Today (Edel Records)
• 2009: Starts and Ends (FarGo Musc)

With Sofian Benzaim

• 2005: This Is Sofian (C+C Records)

With Eivind Aarset

• 1998: Électronique Noire (Jazzland, EmArcy)

References

External links

• D'Sound Official website