Daniel Adams-Ray

Quality 0.50 · 2 views · Updated 2 months ago

Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer

title: "Daniel Adams-Ray" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["living-people", "1983-births", "swedish-hip-hop-musicians", "swedish-pop-singers", "swedish-male-songwriters", "swedish-language-singers", "english-language-swedish-singers", "swedish-people-of-kenyan-descent", "swedish-people-of-scottish-descent", "swedish-people-of-indonesian-descent", "musicians-from-stockholm", "singers-from-stockholm", "21st-century-swedish-male-singers"] description: "Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Adams-Ray" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox musical artist"]

Field	Value
name	Daniel Adams-Ray
image	Daniel Adams-Ray 1 - cropped.jpg
caption	Adams-Ray in 2011
image_size	240px
birth_name	Daniel David John Adams-Ray
alias	Big Danne
birth_date
birth_place	Nairobi, Kenya
years_active	2000–present
genre
occupation
label
past_member_of	Snook
website	www.danieladamsray.com
::

Background

Adams-Ray was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Indonesian-Dutch mother and a Swedish father. His mother was a school administrator and his father a medical surgeon. In 1996, the family left Africa for Europe and lived for a year in the Netherlands, where he played football (soccer) with a very young Arjen Robben. Later the family left to Sweden, where they lived in Lidingö, an affluent suburb of Stockholm. His parents owned and operated a plastic-surgery clinic in the area. Adams-Ray says he felt very much like an outsider and says he was bullied and called racist slurs. After switching high schools, he started at Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium Odenplan and met Oskar Linnros, his future partner in the band Snook.

He is fluent in English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish. He also speaks quite a bit of Italian and Swahili.

He is related to Swedish journalist Kersti Adams-Ray.

Career

Main article: Snook (band)

Snook

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Snook_Gruppbild.jpg" caption="Daniel Adams-Ray as part of Snook alongside [[Oskar Linnros"] ::

The schoolmates and Oskar Linnros started an alternative hip hop duo group calling it Snook. The duo released two albums: Vi vet inte vart vi ska men vi ska komma dit in 2004 and Är in 2006 receiving both praise and heavy criticism. The band's unorthodox hip hop was met by comments that the band wasn't "keeping it real" and the fact that Adams-Ray spent his teenage years in Lidingö caused critics to label them "upper class rappers". Despite some critics, the band had many hits, received awards from radio station P3, The 2003 Swedish Hip-hop Awards 2003, and best Swedish band at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006. Daniel Adams-Ray won the Swedish freestyle-rap championship in 2004 and was awarded the prize for best Swedish rapper in 2005.

Solo

Adams-Ray and Oskar Linnros drifted apart. Adams-Ray attended the design school Berghs School of Communication and started the fashion label Lagom. During a fashion show in 2009 he produced some music and this led to new songs (with him singing, not rapping). He says his music might be called Kenyan pop-disco-indie-punk. Influenced range from Motown-disco, afro beat, hip-hop and early 60's surf pop.

He had also collaborated with fellow Swede Avicii in a new song Somewhere in Stockholm, which belong to his album Stories. Three years later, he collaborated with Avicii again on a song titled "Ghost". For this single, Adams-Ray is credited under the name HUMAN.

Discography

Studio albums

::data[format=table] | Album | Year | Chart peak | Certification | SWE | Svart, vitt och allt däremellan | Innan vi suddas ut | Döda hjärtan kan slå igen | Pandemi, Palestina & Heartache | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2010 | 2 | | | | | | | | | 2013 | 4 | | | | | | | | | 2021 | 24 | | | | | | | | | 2025 | 30 | | | | | | | | ::

Singles

::data[format=table] | Song | Year | Chart peak | Certification | Album | SWE | "Dum av dig" | "Gubben i lådan" | "Lilla lady" | "Förlåt att jag aldrig sagt förlåt" | "Håll om mig" (with Petter) | "Precis som jag" | "Thinking of Sunshine" | "Isabel" | "Sitter på en dröm" (with Oskar Linnros) | "Förlorad halleluja" | "Bror" | "Stockholms voodoo" | "Avundsjuk på regnet" (featuring Miriam Bryant) | "Lilla USA" | "Hela dagen är inte natt" | "Tunna kläder" | "Skotthål" | "Gråt inte mer" | "Forever Young" | "Fast för alltid" | "När jag blundar" | "Numret har ingen abonnent" | "Hur förklarar man sånt för datorer?" | "Du är nog" | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2010 | 16 | | Svart, vitt och allt däremellan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2011 | 40 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2013 | 28 | | Början på allt | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 25 | | Innan vi suddas ut | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2015 | 73 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2016 | 78 | | För er | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 25 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2020 | — | | Döda hjärtan kan slå igen | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 33 | | Döda hjärtan kan slå igen | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2021 | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 25 | | Så mycket bättre | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 72 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 79 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2022 | 98 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2024 | — | | Pandemi, Palestina & Heartache | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2025 | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::

Featured singles

::data[format=table] | Song | Year | Chart peak | Album | SWE | "Pris på mitt huvud" (Petter featuring Daniel Adams-Ray) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2016 | 75 | Mitt folk | | | | ::

Other charted songs

::data[format=table] | Song | Year | Chart peak | Album | SWE | "Svart" | "Gryningspyromanen" | "Döda hjärtan kan slå igen" | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2010 | 46 | Svart, vitt och allt däremellan | | | | | | | 52 | | | | | | | | | 2021 | — | Döda hjärtan kan slå igen | | | | | | ::

Notes

References

(21 June 2010). "Pop i cool förpackning - DN.se". Dagens Nyheter.
"IBEYOSTUDIO - Daniel Adams-Ray gör solodebut - Mynewsdesk".
"Adams Plastikkirurgi".
(10 May 2006). "Snook: "Är" - DN.se". Dagens Nyheter.
(10 May 2006). "Snook: "Är" - DN.se". Dagens Nyheter.
(26 July 2008). "Så länge händerna är i luften | SVD Ledare". Svenska Dagbladet.
[https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/p3-guld-hyllar-veteraner-och-nykomlingar/ P3 Guld hyllar veteraner och nykomlingar] Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 13 January 2023. {{Dead link. (February 2022)
"Daniel Adams-Ray har designat en futuristisk provhytt | PLAZA Kvinna".
"Daniel Adams-Ray gör solodebut! | Cityguiden Örebro – Allt om Örebro & mycket mer!".
(10 February 2018). "Avicii Shares New Song He Co-Wrote for HUMAN, "GHOST"". Your EDM.
"SwedishCharts.com Daniel Adams-Ray discography page". Swedishcharts.com.
[[TT News Agency]]. (9 February 2025). "Daniel Adams-Ray ger konsert i Avicii arena". [[Aftonbladet]].
"Veckolista Album, vecka 8, 2025". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Sverigetopplistan". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 2". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
(June 2024). "Bror - Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music".
(3 April 2020). "Stockholms Voodoo - Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music".
"Lilla USA - Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music". [[Apple Music]].
"Hela Dagen Är Inte Natt - Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music". [[Apple Music]].
"Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 13". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Skotthål – Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music". [[Apple Music]].
"Veckolista Singlar, vecka 49". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Veckolista Singlar, vecka 50". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Forever Young – Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music". [[Apple Music]].
"Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 51". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Fast för alltid – Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Apple Music". [[Apple Music]].
"Veckolista Singlar, vecka 1". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Veckolista Singlar, vecka 25". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Numret har ingen abonnent - Single by Daniel Adams-Ray on Spotify". [[Spotify]].
"Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 25". [[Sverigetopplistan]].
"Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 25". [[Sverigetopplistan]].

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::