Emanuel Bender (Lavid) is a German Producer and Songwriter who started his producing career with his Electronic/Dubstep project “Drift Static” in 2013 with several successful unofficial remixes for Awolnation (1 Mio collected plays) and Monsters and Men (over 600.000 collected plays) and multiple Hypemachine #1 placings.He plays several Instruments (Violin, Piano, Guitar, Drums) that influence his writing in a way, where he is able to join multiple genres and influences into a coherent new style. While developing his sound, he studied Film-Music Composition at Jazz&Pop ArtEZ and did several Producing workshops, while mainly aggravating all the aspects of writing and producing music in any given genre auto-didactically.In 2015 he began working at Riverside Studios Berlin where he started writing and producing acclaimed songs for i.e. Alle Farben – “No Ordinary” (6.8 Mio plays on Spotify) and Dillistone – “Sad and High” (3.2 Mio on Soundcloud) and more, as well as several International TV ads (BMW, AUDI,TOYOTA) and music for feature films.His upcoming project “Lavid” is going to release a track-by-track EP partly co-produced with artists like filous, Mount and Fabich and will feature many different Vocalists like Frida Amundsen, and Florence (klei).