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483-Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin-Don’t You Worry Child.

2012-Number 1 single.

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Prior to the forming of the Swedish House Mafia in 2008, the three founding members Axel Christofer Hedfors, (Axwell) Steven Fragogiannis (Steve Angello) and Sebastan Ingrosso, along with Eric Prydz, had worked as solo artists, as well as collaborating together on occasions. Prydz has stated that he preferred to work on his own, so declined the offer to join the other three. Axwell, and Ingrosso were both born in Sweden, while Angello was born in Greece, but lived in Sweden from an early age, it was when fans began nicknaming them the ‘Swedish House Mafia,’ that they decided to use the name on their formation (see also best songs 883.) They were active between 2008-2013, but reformed in 2018, after releasing music independently.To date they have issued two compilations ‘Until One’ in 2010, and ‘Until Now’ in 2012. They released their first studio Album ‘Paradise Again’ in 2021.

‘Don’t You Worry Child’ was the sixth, and final single release by the Swedish House Mafia, before they went on hiatus, and the sixth consecutive singe to reach the UK top 20. All three group members receive writing credits, as does the songs vocalist John Martin, and his songwriting partner Michel Zitron. John Martin is also a native of Sweden, and had previously co-written, and provided the vocals on the Swedish House Mafia’s ‘Save the World’ from 2011.Of his part on writing the song, Martin has said,’We had this discussion (with Michel Zitron) about our relationships with our dads. We started to play around with a loop, then this melody came out quickly, and we did it in one day. You have to touch the crying nerve in music, when you mix sad melodies with euphoric tracks, there is something that happens that really works.’

‘There was a time, I used to look into my fathers eyes. In a happy home, I was a king, I had a golden throne. Those days are gone, now the memories are on the wall, I hear the sounds from the places where I was born.’