The Lukas Graham charttopper ‘7 Years’ serves up more life lessons in four minutes than your mum can in four years. Imagine what we gleaned from our eight-minute chat with Lukas Graham Forchhammer, the band’s straight-talking frontman and songwriter.
The band’s crazy tour schedule led to Kasper leaving the band earlier this month after four years. He says: “I have, among other things, found out that a touring life… isn’t the best match for me," he said. The band’s former pianist and current producer, Morten Ristorp, replaces him.
WHO IS HE? LUKAS GRAHAM FORCHHAMMER, 27, lead singer of pop-soul band, Lukas Graham. After five years, the Danish quartet finally scored their first global hit with ‘7 Years’, a single off their eponymous second album. The Chicken Soup for the Soul of songs didn’t merely dominate airwaves and charts, it also created international buzz and sparked off the hashtag trend #once i was seven years old, inspired by the song’s introspective lessons about life.
KNOW WHO'S IN YOUR #SQUAD.
“The music industry is a weird, weird animal. The first thing to remember is that nobody is your friend. Only [the people on] your team may be your friends. Everybody else is there to make money off you.”
SAY NO.
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