[9] Kygo has since released several singles, such as "Stole the Show", "Here for You", and "Stay" in 2015, "It Ain't Me" collaborating with Selena Gomez in 2017 and a 2019 remix of "Higher Love" performed by Whitney Houston and even a 2020 remix of "What's Love Got To Do With It" performed by Tina Turner, all of which have debuted on several international charts.

[14][15] He is the son of Kjersti Gjerde, a dentist in Norway, and Lars Gørvell-Dahll, who was working abroad in the maritime industry.

[18] He stopped when he was 15 or 16 and started producing music with Logic Studio and a MIDI keyboard while watching several tutorials on YouTube.

[19] When he decided to pursue music full-time, he was halfway through a degree in business and finance at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

After receiving over 80 million views on YouTube and SoundCloud, Kygo was contacted by Avicii and by Chris Martin of Coldplay to create a remix of the song "Midnight".

[27] In July 2014, Kygo entered into a partnership with EDM lifestyle brand Electric Family to produce a collaboration bracelet[28] for which one hundred per cent of the proceeds are donated to Médecins Sans Frontières.

[32] On 21 March 2015, he released his second single, titled "Stole the Show", featuring Parson James, which as of 2 January 2019, had 326 million views on YouTube [33] and 1 billion streams on Spotify.

[34] After the release of the single, Kygo announced that he was embarking on a worldwide tour to promote his debut studio album.

[citation needed] In the beginning of March 2016, Kygo announced that his debut studio album was going to be released on 13 May 2016, under the title Cloud Nine.

The second single came out on 1 April 2016 and was called "Raging", which features vocals from the Irish band Kodaline and was also co-written by James Bay.

[10] Other collaborations were revealed to include Parson James, Tom Odell, Kodaline, Conrad Sewell, John Legend, James Vincent McMorrow, Foxes, Rhodes, Matt Corby, Maty Noyes, Julia Michaels and Angus & Julia Stone.

In addition to reaching number one in Croatia, Lebanon and Norway, the song attained top five peaks in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland.

[42] On 19 October 2017, Kygo announced via Facebook that his second studio album is called Kids in Love, which was released on 3 November.

On 20 October, he released the lead single and title track "Kids in Love", which features The Night Game.

In June 2018, Kygo announced a collaboration with American rock band Imagine Dragons titled "Born to Be Yours".

On 21 September, Kygo debuted his upcoming single, "Happy Now", a collaboration with Sandro Cavazza, during his set at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, held at the T-Mobile Arena.

[45] "Think About You" featuring American singer Valerie Broussard was released as a single on 14 February 2019 and considered timed for Valentine's Day.

[46] "Carry On", a song with English singer Rita Ora, was released as a standalone single for the 2019 film Detective Pikachu.

On 14 June 2019, Kygo released his first Norwegian-language song, with Bergen rappers Store P and Lars Vaular called "Kem kan eg ringe" and on 28 June, he remixed Whitney Houston's cover version of Steve Winwood's song "Higher Love".

1 position on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart, making it Houston's highest-charting posthumous release to date.

After his fellow and frequent collaborator, Sandro Cavazza, sent him the track and with due consent from Avicii's family, Kygo completed the song while adding his signature tropical house elements.

The next day, a music video was released starring real-life American couple Rob Gronkowski and Camille Kostek containing personal footage of their life together.

On 13 August 2021, Kygo released a music video for the track "Love Me Now" featuring German singer Zoe Wees.

[55] On 19 April, he released "For Life" with Zak Abel and Nile Rodgers, which interpolates "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" by Modjo.

Kygo is a supporter of British football club Manchester United, and his favourite player was Juan Mata.

Kyrre got the idea for his stage name through a username he received in high school for the digital learning platform itslearning.