| Noonie Bao | |
| Birth Name: | Jonnali Mikaela Parmenius |
| Birth Date: | 1987 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Instrument: | Vocals |
| Years Active: | 1999–present |
Jonnali Mikaela Parmenius (born 9 August 1987), better known by the stage name Noonie Bao, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. She has written songs for artists such as Don Diablo, Ava Max, Katy Perry, Zara Larsson, Charli XCX, Camila Cabello, Zedd, Avicii, Kygo, David Guetta, Clean Bandit, Alesso, Feed Me and Carly Rae Jepsen.
Parmenius was born in Stockholm, Sweden.[1] She started singing at an early age, inspired by her musical parents, and performed in choir productions as a child. At the age of 12, she began to write her own songs, but at first, she did so in secret because she was embarrassed and uncomfortable singing about feelings.[2] She attended a music school, where she was called a "black sheep". At the age of 15, a friend gave her the nickname Noonie Bao because of her appearance.[3]
She briefly attended the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, but left and went to live with a friend in St. Gallen, Switzerland.[4] [5] [6] She began to take a singing class and recorded her own songs in a friend's attic, which was her first contact with song production. Later, she worked in a recording studio in Paris.
After two years abroad, Noonie Bao returned to her hometown of Stockholm, where she signed a contract with the label EMI as a songwriter.[7] She also founded a music label called 2many Freckles.[8] Under this label, she wrote and produced songs for Adiam Dymott, Clean Bandit, Frederic Sioen, and Tove Styrke.[9] [10] Bao produced several songs on Tove Styrke's 2010 self-titled album, which spent 35 weeks on the Swedish charts and peaked at number 10.[11] In 2011, the Belgian band Das Pop became aware of a song by Noonie Bao and asked her to sing backing vocals on the song "Fair Weather Friends" from their album The Game.[12] [13] Bao later went on tour with the band in Belgium and Europe.
In January 2012, Bao released her debut single "About to Tell".[14] In October, she released her debut album I Am Noonie Bao, which incorporates indie pop and folk musical styles. In late 2012, she went on tour in Sweden.[15] In 2013, she was nominated for a Grammis award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to Icona Pop.[16] Bao later had success as a songwriter and featured singer for Avicii and Nicky Romero's song "I Could Be the One".[17]
In 2014, Noonie Bao co-wrote the single "Doing It" from Charli XCX's album Sucker, which peaked at number eight on the UK singles chart,[18] as well as contributing to three other tracks on the album. The two have continued to work together, including the majority of XCX's 2016 Vroom Vroom EP and three tracks from XCX's mixtape Number 1 Angel.[19]
In 2015, Bao released the single "I'm in Love" on SoundCloud and YouTube. In November 2015, she released her first extended play Noonia, which made a transition into more pop-based production than had initially appeared on her debut album. Continuing with this sound, Bao released the Burns-produced single "Reminds Me" in April 2016.
| Year | Album | |
|---|---|---|
| "About to Tell" | 2012 | I Am Noonie Bao |
| "Do You Still Care?" | ||
| "Bodywork Lover" | ||
| "The Game" | 2013 | |
| "I'm in Love" | 2015 | Noonia |
| "Pyramids" | ||
| "Criminal Love" | ||
| "Reminds Me"[23] | 2016 | rowspan="2" |
| "Sorry Not Sorry"[24] |
| Year | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| "Do This Thing" | 2012 | Áurinko Rising Again | |
| "M1 Stinger" | M1 Stinger EP | ||
| "Starlight (Could You Be Mine?)" | 2013 | rowspan="1" | |
| "Sunshine Stereo" | Follow the Beat | ||
| "Dust Clears" | New Eyes | ||
| "Ruby" | 2015 | Playground | |
| "All This Love" | Forever | ||
| "Monopoly" | 2016 | PC Music, Volume 2 |
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Prison Break" | 2008 | Kocky | Stadium Status |
| "Just Another Song" | 2012 | Sebjak | |
| "Rihanna" | 2013 | Clean Bandit | New Eyes |
| "I Wish I Could Be Happy" | 2014 | The Kenneth Bager Experience | Follow the Beat |
| "All This Love" | 2015 | Alesso | Forever |
| "Let You Down" | iSHi | Spring Pieces | |
| "Fades Away" | 2019 | Avicii | Tim |
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| Year | Artist | Album | Song | Co-written with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Kocky | Stadium Status | "Prison Break" | David Åström, Patrik Berggren |
| 2010 | Tove Styrke | "Chaos" | Tove Anna Linnea Styrke | |
| "Four Elements" | Tove Anna Linnea Styrke | |||
| 2012 | Blänk | Áurinko Rising Again | "Do This Thing" | Klas Granstrom, Lina Oehman, John Eriksson, Peter Moren, Bjorn Yttling, Simon Trabelsi |
| Sebjak | "Just Another Song" | Sabastian Jakobsson | ||
| M1 Stinger EP | "M1 Stinger" | |||
| "I Could Be the One" | ||||
| 2013 | Follow the Beat | "Sunshine Stereo" | Kenneth Bager, Thomas Schulz | |
| rowspan="2" | "Starlight (Could You Be Mine)" | Don Schipper, Matthew Nash, David Silcox, Måns Wredenberg, Linus Wiklund | ||
| Galavant | "Tonight" | Alexander Almonte | ||
| True | "Always on the Run" | |||
| Torus | "Until the End" | Nicholas Douwmba, Måns Wredenberg, Louisa Rose Allen | ||
| 2014 | Follow the Beat | "Amazing" | Kenneth Bager, Linus Wiklund, Thomas Barrett Jr. | |
| "Follow the Beat" | Kenneth Bager, Thomas Schulz, Linus Wiklund, Neil Ormandy | |||
| "What's My Name" | Kenneth Bager, Thomas Schulz | |||
| "I Wish I Could Be Happy" | Kenneth Bager, Thomas Schulz | |||
| "Stuck in a Lie" | Kenneth Bager, Thomas Schulz, Linus Wiklund, Ayah Marar, Bernard Hermann, Dawn Joseph, Jacob Emtatsom | |||
| New Eyes | "Rihanna" | Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto | ||
| Lucid Dreaming | "Games for Girls" | Elektra Kilbey-Jansson, Miranda Kilbey-Jansson, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, Jakob Emtestam | ||
| Sharks | "Wait" | Susanna Friberg, Sophia Englund, Johan Sigerud, Jimmy "Svidden" Koitzsh, Linus Eklow, Karl Sandberg, Joakim Jarl, Marcus Grindeback | ||
| You Got It All | "Midnight Train" | |||
| Sucker | "Breaking Up" | Charlotte Aitchison, Patrik Berger, Markus Krunegård | ||
| "Doing It" | ||||
| "Die Tonight" | ||||
| "Need Ur Luv" | ||||
| 2015 | Emotion | "Run Away with Me" | ||
| Coucheron | Playground | "Ruby" | Sebastian Teigen | |
| Spring Pieces | "Let You Down" | Eshraque "iSHi" Mughal | ||
| Forever | "All This Love" | Alessandro Lindblad, Måns Wredenberg, Linus Wiklund | ||
| "Wake the Giant" | Thomas Olsen, James Abrahart | |||
| Body and the Sun | "Salinas Skies" | Wayne Hector, Andreas Schuller | ||
| Stories | "City Lights" | Tim Bergling, Arash Pournouri, Oskar Jonas Wallin | ||
| Warcry EP | "Northern Lights" | Elias Sahlin, Patrik Berggren, Andreas Soderlund | ||
| Hand in the Fire | "Hand in the Fire" | |||
| 2016 | Vroom Vroom EP | "Vroom Vroom" | Charlotte Aitchison, Amanda Lucille Warner, Sophie Xeon | |
| "Paradise" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook, Sophie Xeon, Martin Stilling | |||
| "Trophy" | Charlotte Aitchison, Amanda Lucille Warner, Sophie Xeon, Patrik Berger | |||
| Tini | "Got Me Started" | Daniel Traynor, Jason Evigan | ||
| "Final Song" | Karen Marie Ørsted, Uzoechi Emenike | |||
| Second EP | "I, U, Us" | Rachel Keen, Charlotte Aitchison, Fredrik Gibson | ||
| I Remember | "Jealous" | Aluna Francis, George Reid, Charlotte Aitchison, Jonathan Hill, Ajay Bhattacharya | ||
| "Drum" | Karen Marie Ørsted, Charlotte Aitchison, Michael Tucker | |||
| EasyFun | PC Music, Volume 2 | "Monopoly" | Finn Keane | |
| Different World | "Alone" | Alan Walker, Jesper Borgen, Anders Frøen, Gunnar Greve Pettersen | ||
| 2017 | "Stay" | Anton Zaslavski, Anders Frøen, Alessia Caracciolo, Sarah Aarons, Linus Wiklund | ||
| Number 1 Angel | "Blame It on U" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook | ||
| "Roll with Me" | Charlotte Aitchison, Sophie Xeon, Klas Ahlund | |||
| "White Roses" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook | |||
| Witness | "Save as Draft" | Katheryn Hudson, Dijon McFarlane, Nicholas Audino, Lewis Hughes, Elof Loelv | ||
| "OMG" | ||||
| A Moment Apart | "Falls" | Clayton Knight, Harrison Mills, Alexandra Yatchenko, Alexandra Cheatle | ||
| "Phases" | Alma-Sofia Miettinen, Charlotte Aitchison, Alexandra Yatchenko, Ryan Vojtesak, Kaelyn Behr, Rex Kudo, Karim Kharbouch | |||
| Stargazing EP | "This Town" | Kyrre Gorvell-Dahll, Alexandra Yatchenko | ||
| Tell Me You Love Me | "Cry Baby" | Demetria Lovato, Taylor Parks, Chloe Angelides, Jamie Sanderson, Kevin Hissink | ||
| "Dirty Sexy Money" | Pierre Guetta, Nicholas van de Wall, Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook, Karim Kharbouch | |||
| Pop 2 | "Track 10" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook, Alexandra Yatchenko, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen | ||
| Bright OST | "Darkside" | |||
| 2018 | Camila | "Never Be the Same" | Karla Estrabao, Alexandra Yatchenko, Adam Feeney, Leo Rami Dawod, Jacob Ludwig Olofsson | |
| "Perfect" | Alexandra Yatchenko, Matthew Radosevich | |||
| Sad Girl EP | "Fall" | Alexandra Yatchenko, Linus Wiklund | ||
| Joyride | "Faded Love" | Tinashe Kachingwe, Alexandra Yatchenko, Tor Hermansen, Nayvadius Wilburn | ||
| Heavy Rules Mixtape | "Dance for Me" | Alma-Sofia Miettinen, Charlotte Aitchison, Karen Marie Ørsted, Andreas Schuller, Larus Orn Arnarson | ||
| "Somebody" | James Harmon Stack | |||
| Bloom | "Dance to This" | Troye Sivan Mellet, Brett McLaughlin, Oscar Holter | ||
| "Be Right Here" | Valentin Brunel, Robert "Throttle" Bergin, Karla Estrabao, Charlotte Aitchison, Alexandra Yatchenko, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen | |||
| "Happy Now" | Anton Zaslavski, Sarah Aarons, Linus Wiklund | |||
| 7 | "Don't Leave Me Alone" | Pierre Guetta, Sarah Aarons, Linus Wiklund | ||
| Forever Neverland | "Imaginary Friend" | Karen Marie Ørsted, Carlos Montagnese, William Walsh | ||
| Phoenix | "Let You Love Me" | Rita Sahatçiu Ora, Ilsey Juber, Linus Wiklund, Finn Keane, Fredrik Gibson | ||
| "Paradise" | Nicholas Gotum, Deniz Akçakoyunlu, Måns Wredenberg, Linus Wiklund | |||
| Charli | "1999" | Charlotte Aitchison, Troye Sivan Mellet, Brett McLaughlin, Oscar Holter | ||
| Phoenix | "New Look" | Ilsey Juber, Jordan Suecof | ||
| What Is Love? | "Nowhere" | Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto, Ilsey Juber, Linus Wiklund, Kyle Harvey | ||
| "24 Hours" | Jack Patterson, John Ryan II, Julian Bunetta | |||
| 2019 | Trust Issues | "Someone New" | Astrid Smeplass, Charlotte Aitchison, Jakob Hazell, Svante Halldin | |
| Sucker Punch | "Business Dinners" | Sigrid Raabe, Patrik Berger, Martin Stilling | ||
| "Never Mine" | Sigrid Raabe, Martin Sjølie | |||
| Love + Fear | "Enjoy Your Life" | Marina Diamandis, Oscar Holter | ||
| "True" | Marina Diamandis, Oscar Holter, Oscar Gorres | |||
| U & Me | "Real" | Chad Cisneros, David Reed, Alexandra Yatchenko, Alexander Schwartz, Joseph Khajadourian, Teal Douville | ||
| Dedicated | "Too Much" | Carly Rae Jepsen, Jonathan Hill, Patrik Berger | ||
| Charli | "Blame It on Your Love" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexandra Yatchenko, Finn Keane, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen, Melissa Jefferson | ||
| Dedicated | "For Sure" | Carly Rae Jepsen, Patrik Berger, Pontus Winnberg | ||
| Poster Girl | "All the Time" | Zara Larsson, Ilsey Juber, Linus Wiklund | ||
| "Thing for You" | Pierre Guetta, Martin Picandet, Alexandra Yatchenko, Alexandra Robotham | |||
| Charli | "Gone" | Charlotte Aitchison, Linus Wiklund, Heloise Letissier, Nicholas Petitfrere | ||
| "Cross You Out" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook, Linus Wiklund | |||
| 13 Reasons Why OST | "Miss U" | Charlotte Aitchison, Linus Wiklund, Madison Love | ||
| Blievers Never Die - Volume Two | "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)" | Patrick Stump, Joseph Trohman, Peter Wentz, Andy Hurley, Wyclef Jean, Jens Silverstedt, Jonas Wallin | ||
| Charli | "Official" | Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook, Finn Keane, Patrik Berger | ||
| Gravity | "Baggage" | Daniel Griffith, Ilsey Juber, Aluna Francis, Jakob Hazell, Svante Halldin | ||
| rowspan="2" | "Down in Flames" | Aaron Mitchell Jr., Linus Wiklund | ||
| "On & On" | Karen Marie Ørsted, Patrik Berger, Frederik Berger, Martin Stilling | |||
| 2020 | Manic | "I Hate Everybody" | Ashley Frangipane, Sarah Aarons, Peder Losnegård, Benjamin Levin, Magnus August Høiberg, Nathan Perez, Finneas O'Connell | |
| Karen | "Repeat" | Karen Firlej, Alma-Sofia Miettinen, Charlotte Aitchison, Gerald Hoffmann, Jonas Lang, Joachim Piehl, Philip Meckseper, Martin Willumeit Jr. | ||
| Dedicated Side B | "Now I Don't Hate California After All" | Carly Rae Jepsen, Markus Krunegård, Patrik Berger, Pontus Winnberg | ||
| Heaven & Hell | "Who's Laughing Now" | Amanda Koci, Linus Wiklund, Måns Wredenberg, Madison Love, Henry Walter | ||
| 2021 | "Good Ones" | Charlotte Aitchison, Caroline Ailin, Mattias Larsson, Robin Fredriksson, Oscar Holter | ||
| 2024 | Charli XCX | BRAT | "Apple" | Charlotte Aitchison, Linus Wiklund, George Daniel |
| Kylie Minogue | Tension II | "Good as Gone" | Benjamin Kohn, Peter Kelleher, Thomas Barnes, Caroline Ailin |
| Year | Organization | Award | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Grammis | Best New Artist | ||
| 2017 | Swedish Music Publishers Award | Songwriter of the year[25] | Won | |
| 2017 | Swedish Music Publishers Awardsl | International Success | Won | |
| 2018 | Grammis | Songwriter of the year[26] | Won |