Christoffer Lauridsen

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Christoffer Semelius (aka. Christoffer Lauridsen) (born 1 August 1986) is a Danish-Swedish songwriter and producer working out of Stockholm. [1] He has produced and written for artists such as Red Velvet, [2] Got7, Wanna One, [3] Martina Stoessel, [4] and Chord Overstreet. [5]

Early in his career Christoffer moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as an assistant engineer in a recording studio. Shortly after his time in the UK Christoffer was hired to work in one of Copenhagen's prime recording facilities to engineer jazz and classical recordings. Christoffer studied music production in Växjö, Sweden, [6] and afterwards moved to Stockholm where he worked as a producer/songwriter in collaboration with Anders Bagge, Stefan Örn and Johan Kronlund for several years.

Christoffer is a multi-platinum certified songwriter who has co-written/produced songs for/with several international writers/artists and has contributed to several international Billboard charts [7] and won "Song of the year" with Umpah Umpah. He has also done work for Eurovision Song Contest and collaborated with Jay-Z early in his career.

"Losing the Love"(produced and co-written by Christoffer) is featured in the Disney movie titled Tini: El gran cambio de Violetta starring Martina Stoessel, as well as on her debut album. When released on April 29 the album went Gold [8] in Argentina and topped the charts in several countries.

Songwriting/producer discography

TitleYearAlbumSongwriterProducer
"Mogę wszystko, nic nie muszę"2014 Agata Dziarmagowska Mogę wszystko, nic nie muszę (Single) Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Drop Drop"2014 Agata Dziarmagowska Drop Drop (Single) Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"People Are Lonely - Chritoffer Lauridsen Remix"2014 Gravitonas, Army Of Lovers People Are Lonely Yes check.svg
"Tick Tock"2014 Mariya Yaremchuk Tick Tock Yes check.svg
"Blisko Mnie"2015 Agata Dziarmagowska Blisko Mnie - (Single) Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"President"2015 Agata Dziarmagowska President - (Single) Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Renuncio - (Christoffer Lauridsen Remix)"2015 Ruth Lorenzo Renuncio Yes check.svg
"The Shining"2015 Alien Huang ALiEN Yes check.svg
"Love You Out Loud"2015 Benjamin Lasnier Love You Out Loud Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Losing The Love"2016 Tini Martina Stoessel [9] [ circular reference ]Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Touch"2016She La La Summer Time – Kis-My-Ft2Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Somebody To Hurt"2017 Benjamin Lasnier Somebody To Hurt [10] 'Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Ordinary People"2017 Levina Unexpected Yes check.svg
"Hot!x2"2017 Kis-My-Ft2 Hot!x2 [11] 'Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Sweet Birthday"2018 KAT-TUN Sweet birthday [12] 'Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Into The Rhythm"2018 Taemin Into The Rhythm [13] [ circular reference ]'Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Umpah Umpah"2019 Red Velvet The ReVe Festival: Day 2 [14] [ circular reference ]'Yes check.svgYes check.svg
"Crash & Burn"2019 GOT7 Call My Name'[ citation needed ]Yes check.svgYes check.svg

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