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“Es la ignorancia la que hace a los pueblos pobres y los hombres de rodillas son mas rodillas que hombres”

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Dancing Through Miami with @kygomusic, the Pied Piper of Island Resort Jams

To see more of Kygo’s tropical dance photos, head over to @kygomusic on Instagram. For more music stories, check out @music.

It’s warm, breezy and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. It’s almost 3 p.m. in the heart of Miami’s South Beach. Outside the Surfcomber Hotel’s lush pool and beach yard, nearly every DJ in the world roams the vibrant strip. It’s Thursday of Miami Music Week 2015, and Ultra Music Festival kicks off in 25 hours. The secret guest at Pete Tong’s All Gone pool party could be anyone, but when 24-year-old Shikita Vuntarde sees who it is, she’ll cry.

“It’s my first time seeing him live, so I’m super pumped. I’m freaking out,” Shikita says. She’s front row center and has no plans to leave. “[His music] is unexplainable because it comes from the heart –– it comes from deep down, and you let it all go. It’s problem-free music.”

Shikita is not alone. She stands proudly among the millions of fans of Norway’s brown-haired golden-child, Kyrre Gorvell-Dahll. Known to EDM super-fans and industry execs as Kygo (@kygomusic), he leads the charge on the so-called “tropical house” movement. He’s the Pied Piper of island resort jams. His music is the sound a piña colada would make.

On paper, Kygo is the hottest-rising electronic star since Swedish DJ Avicii. The comparison would make the 23-year-old happy, as it was Avicii who first inspired him. Now, Kygo can’t go 10 feet without someone asking for his picture. But that doesn’t stop him from taking a fair share himself, mostly of crowds screaming and dancing in unison at his shows. Today, he’s being followed by two cameramen. When he finishes DJing for the sun-drunk masses, he’ll be shuffled to a radio interview, rushed through a meeting with Pioneer DJ, then off to rehearsal for a special showcase.

To think, a year ago, he was just skipping class.

“I was studying finance, accounting,” he says from the backseat of a car. “I went to one or two, and then I figured like this is not going to work because I was focusing on music.”

It was around this time that he got a call from Myles Shear, an upstart Miami-based manager who would help veer his career toward total scene takeover. It’s not hard to pick Myles out of the crowd. Kygo wears a black and white jersey that says “Kygo” on the back. Myles’ matches in one that reads “Manager Myles.”

“He was really good looking,” Myles jokes. “Seriously though, I heard his music and I was like, This is amazing. I didn’t realize what it would come to, but I heard it and wanted to push it.”

The push is real. Billboard magazine called Kygo “Dance Music’s Next Superstar” last October, and every dance music blog on the Internet has the kid on a close watch. Still, the plan is to be more than an EDM star. He’s primed to be a pop sensation, hence the move from DJ to live performer.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a long time,” he says. “I’m originally a piano player, and I’m more into the production side, not the DJing.” He learned piano at six but picked up DJing a year and a half ago. Whatever he lacks in experience he’s more than made up for in media hype.

It’s interesting to watch him, the young man at the eye of a marketing storm. He remains humble and appears truly unmoved by the forces at work around him. At rehearsal, people move swiftly to rebrand the rooftop venue with Kygo’s X-mark logo. His name must be seen from any angle by the business insiders who attend, but sitting at his piano, the man of the hour seems blissful and at peace.

It’s not really a question. Kygo will be a superstar. He’s attractive but not too pretty. He’s kind, quiet and happy to be here. His melodies are stylistically inoffensive and idealistically untroubled, perfectly “problem-free” as his fan Shikita says. As an artist, he won’t rock the boat, but he’ll provide the soundtrack for a perfect sunset sail. Add to that the weight of powerful players behind his meteoric rise, and you’ve got an unmistakable recipe for success.

Whether you dig his style or not, you can’t fault the guy. He’s living in an absolute dream.

“When I see people dancing and going crazy, I start laughing,” he says. “I just want to make good music, basically, and continue making music for as long as possible.”

– Kat Bein for Instagram @music

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Todas son ateas hasta que se las meten por atrás.

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Tengo mucho espíritu libre como para amarrarlo a creencias estúpidas.

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Si una persona necesita de religion para ser buena, esa persona no es buena es como un perro amaestrado

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Una vez me preguntaron, ¿qué se siente ser atea? ¿No te sietes extraña? ¿Cómo te tratan? Cuéntanos sobre ello… así que fue sencillo…

No siento nada al ser atea, es como llevar una vida normal, solo que sin ir los domingos a la iglesia y rezar, no me siento extraña, realmente crecí tomando mis...

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Soy Ateo… Por fin un lugar dónde puedo decirlo sin recibir prejuicio, ni ataques… Soy Ateo porque sí, porque me cansé de creer que alguien “que está sobre mí” podría ayudarme a resolver mis problemas, eso no existe.

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