Eric Prydz

Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Eric Prydz was born on 19 July 1976 and is also known by other popular names, Pryda or Cirez D. The producer and artist started to gain a lot of attention with his track “Call On Me” which featured a sample of Steve Winwood’s “Valerie.” The track charted fairly high in Germany and England, but despite it’s popularity, it had gained more attention by the “salacious” video, so Prydz tried to move away from the track and work to gain the proper recognition: for his music.

In 2006 he released a remix of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2” entitled “Proper Education.” By 2012 Prydz released his full album via, Virgin Records, featuring all of his previously unreleased songs and other songs from his Pryda catalogue. The three-disc album titled “Eric Prydz Presents Pryda” peaked at number fourty on the charts in the UK and eighty in Belgium, however it was still his live performances that people seek out.

2014 proved to be another successful year for Prydz. He celebrated the ten year anniversary of his label, Pryda Recordings, and announced the third instalment of Eric Prydz in concert, complete with large indoor holograms.