Morten Ristorp


Morten Ristorp Jensen, known professionally as "Rissi", is a Danish-born American producer, composer, songwriter and musician, as well as co-founder and previous member of Future Animals.
He is a co-producer from Backbone Studio, and later co-founder of Future Animals with Stefan Forrest and best known for international hits like "7 Years" by Lukas Graham. He also works with artists such as Kygo, Julia Michaels among others.
Besides being one of Lukas Graham's executive producers, he also temporarily played keyboard in the band in 2011/2012 due to the previous pianist leaving until they found their present pianist, Kasper Daugaard. But in June 2016, Kasper left the band and Morten became their keyboardist again.
He won his first Award, :da:Carl Th. Dreyer Prisen|Carl Prisen, in 2013 as Talent of the Year with Lukas Graham alongside his co-songwriters Stefan Forrest, Sebastian Fogh and Lukas Forchhammer.
Morten Ristorp was the third most-played Danish musician in 2015.

Personal life

Morten Ristorp Jensen was born in 1986 at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. He grew up in Tårnby with his parents and two older siblings. He attended Løjtegårdsskolen and graduated in 2002 and went to Sankt Annæ Gymnasium on its special Basic Music Program. When he was not attending school, he played saxophone in The Tivoli Boys Guard from 1997 to 2002. After graduating from Sankt Annæ Gymnasium in 2006, he was accepted at Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2007. In 2010 he graduated with a BA in music from Rhythmic Music Conservatory on saxophone.

Career

Morten Ristorp is co-producer of BackBone Studio and FutureAnimals, songwriter and musician.

Discography

Certifications

Studio albums
Singles

Awards and nominations

Nominated by Danish Music Awards as Danish Songwriter of the Year – Koda-Prisen in 2015 for Lukas Graham.