Kungs

French producer and DJ Kungs crafts sunlit tropical house tracks that rely on acoustic textures, gleaming synth lines, and emotionally charged vocals. His 2016 remix of the Cookin' on 3 Burners track “This Girl” became a global smash and later appeared on his debut album Layers. He quickly established himself on the EDM festival circuit and extended his sound through later releases such as “Dopamine” and “Never Going Home,” the latter reaching the French Top Five and setting the stage for his 2022 sophomore effort Club Azur. After that album he joined forces with Purple Disco Machine and Carlita.

Born Valentin Brunel and raised in Aix-en-Provence, he absorbed a wide range of music from a father devoted to rock & roll yet open to other styles. As a teenager he independently gravitated toward electronic sounds, favoring house for its prominent vocals and rich melodies. Around 2014 he started producing and sharing both bootleg remixes and original material online. Official commissions followed in 2015, including a version of Axwell & Ingrosso’s “On My Way,” while his Mozambo collaboration “To Describe You” landed on the Hed Kandi: Tropical House compilation.

In 2016 he toured Europe supporting David Guetta and scored his breakthrough single with a reworking of the 2009 Cookin' on 3 Burners song that featured Kylie Auldist, frontwoman of the Bamboos. “This Girl” topped the charts in France and Germany, reached number two in the U.K. and Austria, climbed to number eight in Canada, and entered the Billboard Top 30. Layers arrived late that year and showcased guest appearances by Jamie N Commons, Ephemerals, and Luke Pritchard of the Kooks, eventually landing inside the Top Ten in both France and the U.K. August 2017 brought the single “More Less” with British singer Olly Murs and Belgian rapper Coely. Mid-2018 saw the release of “Be Right Here” featuring GOLDN and Stargate, followed in October by “Disco Night” with Throttle. The instrumental “Paris” emerged in 2019, and “Dopamine” featuring JHart appeared in 2020. Club Azur, his second full-length, arrived in March 2022 and contained the earlier track “Paris,” the French Top Five hit “Never Going Home,” and “People” with the Knocks. “Substitution” with Purple Disco Machine and “Shadows” with Carlita both surfaced in 2023.