Rasmus Hedegaard, using the mononym Hedegaard sometimes stylized as HEDEGAARD is a Danish DJ and award-winning music producer. He is signed to Copenhagen Records. His management is TWTTW with Lasse Siegismund and Kasper Færk. Many know him for his remix of "Dr. Dre – Next Episode" and his Scandinavian chart topping single "Happy Home" featuring the bandLukas Graham which went 3 times platinum in Denmark and Norway and platinum in Sweden.
Career
Hedegaard was born in Randers, and started his career remixing tracks for Danish nightclubs and uploading them to YouTube. Including his unofficial remix of Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dres hit "The Next Episode", which made Hedegaard well known across Europe. The song has been played more than 100 million times on YouTube. He has also remixed 50 Cent, Macklemore, Basto, Ludacris, Stromae, Ed Sheeran, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Rihanna. In 2012 Hedegaard started producing original tracks, and with the release of “Happy Home” in 2014, his career escalated from performing in nightclubs, to larger events and festivals like Distortion, Skanderborg Festival, Nibe Festival, Skive Festival, VG-Lista, Peace & Love Festival and ABC Beach Party. Furthermore, he started booking outside of Denmark in numerous Scandinavian and European countries. In 2014 Hedegaard released "Happy Home", featuring Lukas Graham Forchhammer. The song was played heavily on the Danish radio station P3 and was put in A rotation on several other radio stations. On streaming and sale it was #1 for several weeks in Danmark and has now accumulated more than 38 million streams in total. After performing on the Norwegian talk show "Senkveld med Thomas og Harald", the song became #1 on the Norwegian iTunes and was certified 3x platinum on streaming in Norway. In 2014 Hedegaard won an award as "Producer of the Year" for the hit "Happy Home" at Danish Music Awards 2014. In 2015 he won another award for "Most Played Song Of The Year" at "Carl Prisen". Later in 2014 Hedegaard released “Twerk It Like Miley” featuring Brandon Beal and Christopher. The song has more than 56 million streams on Spotify and 158 million views on YouTube and it reached #1 in a couple of Asian countries. "Twerk It Like Miley" won 3 awards at Danish DeeJay Awards 2015 and is now 3x platinum in Denmark, platinum in Philippines, and gold in Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand. In 2017 the single ”That’s Me” was released and has since gained 20 million streams on Spotify. The Australiansinger and songwriterHayley Warner sings the song and in the spring of 2017 they met up in LA and wrote the single “Go Back”. In 2016 Hedegaard won the award as ”Producer of the Year” at Club Awards as well as the ”Audience Award” at Danish DeeJay Awards. Subsequently he won the prize for best Danish remix of the year at Danish DeeJay Awards 2017 for the remix of ”Slem Igen”. Hedegaard is signed to the Danish record label Copenhagen Records. His management is TWTTW and they have offices in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Other than Hedegaard, they have artists like Lukas Graham, Brandon Beal, Patrick Dorgan, Hennedub, Feels, JRM, OK OK, Ylva and more.
