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"While most UK music fans will be well aware of Calvin Harris, his fame hadn&amp;#039;t quite spread to all four corners of the Earth until this week. Harris&amp;#039;s already hefty profile went supernova just after lunchtime yesterday, when Rihanna&amp;#039;s new single &amp;#039;We Found Love&amp;#039; hit the airwaves. Coming across like mix between the Barbadian&amp;#039;s own tunes and Harris&amp;#039;s pop-friendly club sound, the track will no doubt win Calvin an even bigger fanbase. To help out the newcomers, we&amp;#039;ve scrabbled around for ten facts about the knob-twiddler. 1. Calvin was born on January 17, 1984 in Dumfries, Scotland. He started recording electronic music in his bedroom and had already laid down a few demos by the end of last century. 2. In 2002, Harris released the club tracks &amp;#039;Da Bongos&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Brighter Days&amp;#039; as &amp;quot;Stouffer&amp;quot;, via the Prima Facie Label. 3. His song &amp;#039;Let Me Know&amp;#039; featuring Ayah featured on the Electric Soul Vol.2 mix from the Unabombers in 2002. After that, things went quiet for Calvin until he started uploading his stuff to the then-up-and-coming MySpace. The tracks got him enough attention to win a publishing contract with EMI and recording deal with Sony BMG. Listen to Calvin Harris feat Ayah&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Let Me Know&amp;#039; below:      4. Calvin has collaborated with a hell of a lot of people since then. He&amp;#039;s made music with Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Dizzee Rascal, Kelis and - of course - Rihanna, among others. One person he did turn down though was Lady GaGa, way back in January 2008. &amp;quot;I got an email asking to work with her. I thought, &amp;#039;Lady Gaga, what sort of name is that?&amp;#039;. So I replied saying, &amp;#039;Nah, I&amp;#039;m not into that&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Fast forward a year and she&amp;#039;s the biggest thing. But I don&amp;#039;t regret turning her down as I didn&amp;#039;t think the song I heard then was that good.&amp;quot;  5. Mr Harris caused a bit of a stir when he interrupted an X Factor performance by Jedward, wandering up on stage with a pineapple on his head. Their inner sanctum violated, Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh apparently went barmy, banning him from the show for life. It doesn&amp;#039;t seem to have done Calvin&amp;#039;s career any harm though! 6. His studio albums I Created Disco (he didn&amp;#039;t really!) and Ready For The Weekend both went gold, but that didn&amp;#039;t stop Calvin getting upset at a bad review from The Guardian. He claimed that while he was being insulted, &amp;quot;rich people&amp;#039;s kids [are] getting good reviews because mummy f**ked the journo in the &amp;#039;80s&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s the sort of guy who rates something based on whether it&amp;#039;s cool or not,&amp;quot; Harris later told Digital Spy of scribe Alexis Petridis. Watch the Calvin Harris &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m Not Alone&amp;#039; music video below:      7. Taking it may cause him some bother, but Calvin has no trouble dishing it out! &amp;quot;Those people I would never work with,&amp;quot; he said back in 2007 of pop superstars Girls Aloud. &amp;quot;They really need to change their sound. It&amp;#039;s getting extremely boring now - but it&amp;#039;s not for me.&amp;quot; 8. Calvin fell out with Katy Perry after quitting her live shows and claiming that &amp;quot;her team suddenly moved the goalposts&amp;quot;, adding that &amp;quot;it would have looked s**t&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sounded s**t&amp;quot;. Perry countered that she was &amp;quot;used to you cancelling on me, it&amp;#039;s become ur staple!&amp;quot; Oof! 9. He also had a tiff with Chris Brown on hearing the US singer&amp;#039;s track &amp;#039;Yeah 3x&amp;#039;, which bore something of a similarity to his own hit &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m Not Alone&amp;#039;. They&amp;#039;ve kissed and made up though, and Harris says that Brown is like his &amp;quot;best mate&amp;quot; now. 10. Harris claimed in 2010 that he had quit singing altogether, but later seemed to change his mind. He added more recently that he is no longer a frontman and that he prefers to write, produce and mix than actually get up and sing his songs. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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