Henrik Carlsen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 composer

Composer

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, record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 and keyboardist

Keyboardist

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He was a founding member of Street Beat

Street Beat

Street Beat was a Danish band formed in 1982 by Henrik Carlsen and Bo Møller . Drummer Kristian Skovgård Lassen joined the band shortly after. The three of them stayed together until 1993....

 in 1982 and led it until it was disbanded in 1993.

As a composer, he has written or co-written pop-songs like "Ring a Ling" (Tiggy

Tiggy

Tiggy is a Danish Bubblegum Dance/Eurodance artist whose music is energetic, bouncy and sugar-coated. She is perhaps best known for her remix of the Sandy Fox song "Freckles" in DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIX, originally the English version of the song "Sobakasu" by Judy and Mary from the...

), "Diddley-doo" (Cartoons), "Easy Come Easy Go" (Los Umbrellos

Los Umbrellos

Los Umbrellos was a Latin pop dance group. It was formed by record producer Kenneth Bager, in 1997 in Denmark, and split up in 1999.The group released only one album in 1997, entitled Flamenco Funk. Their single, "No Tengo Dinero", went to #33 in the UK Singles Chart, and peaked at #42 on the...

), and worked as producer or re-mixer with Barcode Brothers

Barcode Brothers

Barcode Brothers was a Danish trance-duo consisting of Christian Møller Nielsen and Anders Øland. They are known for club hits like "Dooh Dooh", "Flute" and "SMS", and released two studio albums before disbanding in 2004.-Singles:*"Dooh Dooh"...

, E-Type, Blå Øjne and many more.

As of 2006, he has retired from the music business and now works as a school teacher. He has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

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