Albums Lukas Graham | Music group Lukas Graham | |
 | ||
Nominations Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Danish Music Award for Danish Songwriter of the Year Similar Stefan Forrest, Lukas Graham Forchhammer, Mark Falgren, Magnus Larsson, Kasper Daugaard | ||
Morten Ristorp Jensen (born April 3, 1986), also known as "Rissi", is a Danish producer, composer, songwriter and musician (primarily piano and saxophone). He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, USA, signed with Warner Chappell Music.
Contents
He is a co-producer from Backbone Studio, and later co-founder of Future Animals together with Stefan Forrest and best known for international hits like 7 Years (2015) by Lukas Graham. He also works with artists such as Patrick Dorgan, TopGunn among others.
Besides being one of Lukas Graham's executive producers, he also temporarily played keyboard in the band in 2011/2012 due to the previous pianist leaving until they found their present pianist, Kasper Daugaard. But in June 2016, Kasper left the band and Morten became their keyboardist again.
He won his first Award, Carl Prisen, in 2013 as Talent of the Year with Lukas Graham (the band) alongside his co-songwriters Stefan Forrest, Sebastian Fogh and Lukas Forchhammer.
Morten Ristorp was number 3 most played danish musician in 2015.
Personal life
Morten Ristorp Jensen was born in 1986 at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. He grew up in Tårnby (Amager) with his parents and two older siblings. He attended Løjtegårdsskolen (elementary school) and graduated in 2002 and went to Sankt Annæ Gymnasium on its special Basic Music Program (MGK). When he was not attending school, he played saxophone in The Tivoli Boys Guard from 1997-2002. After graduated Sankt Annæ Gymnasium in 2006, he was accepted at Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2007. In 2010 he graduated with a BA in music from Rhythmic Music Conservatory on saxophone.
Career
Morten Ristorp is co-producer of BackBone Studio and FutureAnimals, songwriter and musician.
Awards
Won Carl Prisen in 2013 as Talent of the Year with Lukas Graham.
Nominated by Danish Music Awards (DMA) as Danish Songwriter of the Year - Koda-Prisen in 2015 for Lukas Graham (Blue Album).
Won Carl Prisen in 2016 as Pop Composer of the Year for Lukas Graham (Blue Album).
Songs
7 YearsLukas Graham (Blue Album) · 2015
Mama SaidLukas Graham (Blue Album) · 2015
You're Not ThereLukas Graham (Blue Album) · 2015