Origin Norway Name Kim Ofstad Instruments Drums | Occupation(s) Musician, composer Genres Jazz, pop music Record label ECM Records | |
Born 25 November 1969 (age 54)
Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag ( 1969-11-25 ) Labels ECM Records Universal Sony Atlantic Warner Website www.sonor.com/artists/kim-ofstad Albums Smooth Escapes: The Very Best Of, Spice of Life, Totally Music groups D'Sound, Ab und Zu (Since 1996) Similar People Jonny Sjo, Audun Kleive, Tore Brunborg, Eivind Aarset, Simone Simons | ||
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Kim Ofstad (born 25 November 1969 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer. He is best known from collaborations in the pop/soul band D'Sound where he was a member from its inception in 1993 to 2010 and his work with the production team Element.
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Career
Ofstad got his first drum kit when he was eight years old, and slightly older joined a brass band. He describes his teens as hybridic, as he felt equally at home in jazz clubs as in discothèques. He is a graduate of Heimdal videregående skole where he got his Examen artium in 1988, and studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, whence he moved to Oslo, the capital of Norway, in 1991. Here he formed D'Sound (1993) together with Jonny Sjo, a fellow student from Boston, he played with Sofian Benzaim. Ofstad contributed for some time in Knut Værnes Trio, and has also recorded an album with Ab und Zu (1996) winning the Smuget award the year after (1997). Together with Audun Kleive he constituted a plain drum duet in 2008.
Ofstad was the drummer and drum-programmer of the production duo ELEMENT with producer/composer Hitesh Ceon, before the team was disbanded in January 2016. Until 2008 the team also included Jonny Sjo and was named 3Elementz. Their productions include the hit singles "Beggin'", "Glow" and "In My Head" with Madcon as well as the album An InCONvenient Truth, they have also produced and written songs for artists like Cee Lo Green, Musiq Soulchild, Alexandra Burke, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and reproduced two tracks with Michael Jackson for Motown Records.