Dardan

Dardan (born October 2, 1997 in Stuttgart) is a German-Albanian singer and rapper. His real name is Dardan Mushkolaj. Dardan describes his musical style as grime. This style, which originates from Great Britain, has its roots in electronic music. Grime combines the styles of 2 Step, Jungle and UK Garage. At the end of 2016, Dardan made his first appearance under the name Sniperflow with the song "Wer Macht Para?". The song became a viral hit on social media. Dardan celebrated his album debut in 2017 with Hallo Deutschrap. This was followed by the longplayers Dardy Luther King (2018), Sorry (2019), Soko Disko (2020) and Mister Dardy (2021). With his latest album, Dardan made it into the German top 10 for the first time. His singles also regularly reached top positions, with his biggest hit "H <3 T E L" reaching number 2 in the German singles charts in 2020. Dardan landed further top 10 hits with the songs "cOcO MAmA", "weR mAChT PaRA 2", "6AM.........", "D A YYY T O N A", "Wie lang?????????" and "Mailbox". Four of his songs have achieved gold status and sold over 800,000 copies in total. Dardan is currently in a relationship with the well-known German rapper Hava. Dardan initially released his music via the independent label Hypnotize Entertainment. He has been under contract with Universal Music since 2019. His album DardyNextDoor is released in 2022. The album only just missed the German top 10 at number 11. The follow-up Dardania (2023) became a huge success, especially in Switzerland. The longplayer reaches the top 10 in Switzerland at number 9. The two singles "Malli " (No. 1 in Switzerland together with rapper Azet) and "Pse" (No. 2 in Switzerland) became top hits. At the end of June 2024, Dardan returned with Azet and their joint album Eurosport. With "Pamu" and "Eurosport", Dardan once again made it into the top 10 of the Swiss singles charts. In November 2024, Dardan released another studio album, Mr. Untouchable. The album climbed to number 10 in Germany and even reached number 5 in Switzerland.