Stargate Production Team - Snippets

Описание: Stargate (production team) - snippets
Mikkel Storleer Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen
the Norway production team

From humble beginnings in provincial Norway, the Stargate team have gone on to become one of America's leading hit factories. Songwriter and producer Mikkel Eriksen explains how their hard work and talent brought success.

Since 2006, Norwegian songwriting and production duo Stargate have been storming charts around the world. In the US alone, they have enjoyed a staggering 21 top 10 hits during the last four years. Since their US breakthrough with Ne‑Yo's 'So Sick', they have become first‑call songwriters and producers for American R&B and pop acts such as Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lionel Richie, Chris Brown, Jennifer Hudson, Flo Rida, Mary J Blige, and many others. Stargate now have a room in Jay Z's prestigious Roc‑the‑Mic studio in New York, and have also joined forces with the rapper in a publishing company and record label called StarRoc.

Stargate's ascendancy to the top of the American music scene came off the back of a lengthy involvement in the European music scene. During 1999‑2004, Stargate, at the time a trio with third member Hallgeir Rustan, enjoyed 40 top 10 hits in the UK. The following year, the other two members, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen decided to risk all and set off across the Atlantic…