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Calvin Harris (born Adam Richard Wiles) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls". He has written and produced records for other recording artists including Kylie Minogue's X and his number-one collaboration with English rapper Dizzee Rascal, "Dance wiv Me".
His second studio album Ready for the Weekend was released on 17 August 2009 and reached number one in the UK Album Charts on 23 August. It includes the chart-topper "I'm Not Alone", the UK top five hit "Ready for the Weekend", which was released on 10 August, and the track "Flashback", which was released as the third single from the album on 2 November 2009. The fourth single from the album, "You Used to Hold Me", was released on 8 February 2010 as a CD single and download. A remix album titled L.E.D. Festival was released in July 2010 as a free album in the August issue of Mixmag.
In 2011, he toured with Rihanna in Australia, he has stated via his Twitter account that he has finished a track and is ready to be released, The track will also be part is his upcoming album. Calvin headlined the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2011 party. Calvin also headlined Limelite at Metropolis Fremantle (Western Australia) on 12 March in celebration of the event's fourth birthday where he played small samples of his new track, Awooga, which was subsequently uploaded onto YouTube via his channel, icreateddisco.
In April 2011, Calvin confirmed via Twitter that he was recording the video for the second single from his upcoming album, titled "Bounce", in Las Vegas and that it would feature Kelis. On 29 April, BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac played a world exclusive premiere of the track, commenting that the single had the potential to be a "summer smash" It debuted in the UK chart on 19 June 2011 and was second to Example's Changed The Way You Kissed Me.







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