Salvatore Ganacci has been played on NTS shows including Spinee, with Horse first played on 4 May 2019.

Emir Kobilić, known professionally as Salvatore Ganacci, is a Bosnian-Swedish DJ and record producer and a co-founder of the THOR radio show on Sveriges Radio. Kobilić was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, and moved to Stockholm, Sweden. He told an interviewer that his performing name derives from being nicknamed "Salvatore Ganacci" by his childhood friends while playing football, as his "style of play was very Italian".

Ganacci began studying at Musikmakarna in 2010, in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. He went on to work as a producer. In 2013, Ganacci, together with Sanjin, released his first song, called "Zlatan", inspired by Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. In the song itself, he used another alias, called "Youthman". In the following year, Ganacci signed a record deal with Sebastian Ingrosso's Refune Music label.

Ganacci's song "Horse" was released on audio and video in 2019, by Owsla, a label co-owned by Skrillex. It later garnered recognition at the Berlin Music Video Awards and the Grammis. The music video for "Horse" was the overall winner of the Berlin Music Video Awards in 2020, also winning the award for the "Best Concept" category. In 2018, Ganacci performed at Tomorrowland Festival in Belgium and received attention due to his dancing and comedic antics. Billboard, Mixmag and NME gave his performance positive reviews, and clips of it went viral on the internet.