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About Dan

International award-winning singer-songwriter and producer Dan Olsen hails from the cold and wet yet exotic far-flung Faroe Islands. For the past five years, he's been based in London, U.K.
 

Although starting out with classical guitar playing at the age of 12, Dan's priorities were always first on football and studying. He represented his club in Champions League Qualification and the Faroe Islands U21 national team drawing his last game against Denmark. Dan then decided to try new adventures.

 

He moved to Australia's East Coast to finish his university degree. In the weekends he started performing live music and simultaneously started writing songs. After graduation, he took the jump to do music full-time in Sydney before moving to London, U.K.

Here Dan got in touch with London-based producer Steven A. Williams (Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison). With some songs in his luggage, Dan invested his hard-earned savings and sought out renowned producer Steven A. Williams (Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison) to produce two tracks incl. Here With Me (written on a balcony in Sydney) which soon garnered over a million streams on Spotify and was featured in playlists such as "Viral 50 - Singapore". At a London gig, Dan met his manager-to-be (Sam Smith's former manager) who shared Dan's vision. Things began to take off.

With a strong team behind him, things slowly began to take off. Dan later teamed up with producer Tommy Harden (Taylor Swift, Uncle Kracker) and even had John Mayer's bassist David Labruyere playing on one track. His songs have since amassed millions of plays on Spotify and hundreds of thousands more on other online platforms.

 

Dan produces his own songs now. He's toured all over the world including China (three times), New York, Russia, and South Africa. He's won Best Song in an international songwriting competition and has since co-written with multiple award-winning songwriters and producers including Grammy, Brit, and Ivor Novello award winners such as Linda Perry (Pink, Gwen Stefani, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus), Matt Lawrence (Mumford & Sons), Chris Neil (Rod Stewart, Celine Dion), Pam Sheyne (Christina Aguilera, Lindsay Lohan), Rob Davis (Kylie Minogue, MIKA) and Sonique. Some of Dan's songs are placed in films. In 2019 Dan teamed up with another industry heavyweight in manager, Fay Woolven. Shortly after, Dan signed a worldwide publishing deal with Peer Music - the largest independent music publisher in the world, with 34 offices in 30 countries and headquarters in California, U.S.

Dan has become the ambassador for a number of charities supporting causes such as cancer treatment, animal wildlife protection, and education traveling to South Africa to build school classrooms.

Representation
Management and Booking

 

Luc Floreani
Website: floreanimanagement.com
Email: luc@floreanimanagement.com

 

PR & Marketing

 

Stuart Watts
Website: stuartwatts.org
Email: stuart.wattspr@gmail.com

 

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