Gotye

**Wouter** "**Wally**" **De Backer** (born 21 May 1980), better known as **Gotye** (pronounced  ), is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter.

Gotye's 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" with Kimbra was Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He has won 12 ARIA Awards, three Grammys and a nomination for an MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act.

Gotye is bilingual, speaking both Dutch and English, and also speaks some Japanese, which he studied at University.

## Discography

- _Boardface_ (2003)
- _Like Drawing Blood_ (2006)
- _Making Mirrors_ (2011)

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Ceremony|Nominated work|Category|Result||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|2011|rowspan="7"|ARIA Music Awards|rowspan="6"|"Somebody That I Used to Know"|Single of the Year||
|Highest Selling Single||||||||
|Best Pop Release||||||||
|Best Video (Natasha Pincus)||||||||
|Engineer of the Year (François Tétaz)||||||||
|Producer of the Year (Himself)||||||||
|Himself|Best Male Artist|||||||
|MTV Europe Music Awards|Himself|Best Asia and Pacific Act||||||
|rowspan="20"|2012|rowspan="2"|Los Premios 40 Principales|"Somebody That I Used to Know"|Mejor Canción Internacional en Lengua No Española|||
|Himself|Mejor Artista Revelación 2012|||||||
|rowspan="3"|APRA Music Awards|rowspan=2|"Somebody That I Used to Know"|Song of the Year||||
|Most-played Australian work||||||||
|Himself|Songwriter of the Year|||||||
|rowspan="3"|Teen Choice Awards|Himself|Choice Breakout Artist|||||
|rowspan="2"|"Somebody That I Used to Know"|Choice Rock Song||||||
|Choice Break-Up Song||||||||
|rowspan="4"|MTV Europe Music Awards|rowspan="3"|Himself|Best Australia & New Zealand Act||||
|Best Asia and Pacific Act||||||||
|Best Push Act||||||||
|"Somebody That I Used to Know"|Best Song|||||||
|rowspan="2"|American Music Awards|rowspan="2"|Himself|Favorite Alternative Rock Artist||||
|Best New Artist of the Year||||||||
|rowspan="6"|ARIA Music Awards|rowspan="5"|_Making Mirrors_|Album of the Year||||
|Best Pop Release||||||||
|Best Cover Artist (Frank de Backer, Himself)||||||||
|Engineer of the Year (François Tétaz)||||||||
|Best Male Artist (Himself)||||||||
|Himself|Best Australian Live Act|||||||
|rowspan="4"|2013|rowspan="1"|People's Choice Awards|Himself|Favorite Breakout Artist|||
|rowspan="3"|Grammy Awards|rowspan=2|"Somebody That I Used to Know" <small>(feat. Kimbra)</small>|Record of the Year||||
|Best Pop Duo/Group Performance||||||||
|_Making Mirrors_|Best Alternative Music Album|||||||

## Other websites

- more info at encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Gotye
- **image**: Gotye, 2012.jpg
- **caption**: Gotye at the APRA Music Awards of 2012, 2012 APRA Music Awards.
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Wouter De Backer
- **birth place**: Brugge, Belgium
- **genre**: Indie rock, Alternative rock
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Musician
- **instrument**: Vocal, Guitar, Drum, Percussion, Keyboard, Synthesizer
- **label**: Fairfax, Universal Republic, Independent, Samples 'n' Seconds, Inertia, Lucky Number, Eleven
- **associated acts**: The Basics, Kimbra
- **website**: [http://www.gotye.com/]