Norwegian Superstar Kygo Plays Israel

Kygo, triumphant in Tel Aviv Image by Getty Images

By Jenny Singer December 4, 2017

I don’t know who Kygo is. You don’t know who Kygo is. But both of us have probably heard Kygo dozens of times — the tropical house music sensation was the fastest artist to have music streamed one billion times on Spotify. He has collaborated with Ed Sheeran and Selena Gomez, and he made history performing at the Olympics.

And Kygo, the Singapore-born Norwegian DJ, knows exactly what the Dead Sea is.

The multi-hyphenate musical talent floated in the famed waters on Monday after playing a massive show in Tel Aviv over the weekend. The show was the artist’s first in Israel, but it seems he’s taken to the country. Look closely at the picture — that’s an Israeli newspaper.

Baruch haba, Kygo!

Bucket list: Float in the Dead Sea✔️

A post shared by Kygo (@kygomusic) on Dec 4, 2017 at 8:33am PST

Here’s Kygo performing in Tel Aviv:

Tel Aviv??❤️

A post shared by Kygo (@kygomusic) on Dec 3, 2017 at 6:54am PST

Jenny Singer is a writer for the Forward. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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