Mekdes Vinholt Pedersen known mononymously as Mekdes, is a Danish–Ethiopian singer, songwriter, and producer born in 1998 in Ethiopia, but at the age of eight months was adopted into a family in the small southern Jutland town of Starupin. On November 2025, Vinholt announced on an Instagram video that he was transgender. (*Older sources may still use she/her) At the age of 19 or 20, when Vinholt began his music career working with a team of producers, he decided to turn them down and instead write, produce and perform his own songs. Read more on Last.fm