Håkan Hellström

Seemingly from nowhere, Håkan Hellström arrived along with his smash hit debut single “Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg” within the spring of 2000. Although this is his debut like a single artist, Hellström have been a musician for a long time. As an associate of indie pop/rock and roll cult heroes Broder Daniel and Honey Is usually Cool — offering the Knife’s Karin Dreijer — he previously already recorded many albums like a bass participant and drummer. In 1999, Hellström asked a few of his musician close friends to become the backing music group on a demonstration tape he would record. Though he hadn’t created tunes for his earlier bands, Hellström wrote a number of in Swedish privately. After completing the demonstration, he directed it to numerous record businesses. He was besieged with gives of an archive deal, and lastly decided to indication with Virgin, his single demand becoming that the recording was documented straightaway. Around the recording, and in concerts that adopted, he was supported by way of a seven-piece music group containing people of Soundtrack in our Lives, Weeping Willows, as well as the Broder Daniel founding member, bass participant Daniel Gilbert — all acquaintances through the music picture in Göteborg, Sweden. His sophomore record, Det är Så Jag Säger Det, premiered in 2002, this time around drawing affects from Brazilian samba well as Swedish folk performers Evert Taube and Cornelis Vreeswijk. Ett Kolikbarns Bekännelser implemented in 2005 before he released Nåt Gammalt, Nåt Nytt, Nåt Lånat, Nåt Blått, an record comprised of paths that didn’t ensure it is onto his prior records. Hellström got a step back again through the music industry following delivery of his boy in 2006, though he do have the ability to perform the casual concert, in addition to discharge albums För Sent För Edelweiss (2008), 2 Steg Från Heaven (2010), and Det Kommer Aldrig Va över för Mig (2013). Although all three strike number 1, the last mentioned was the most effective, heading triple-platinum in Sweden. On June 7, 2014, in his city of Göteborg, he performed for any record-breaking 70,000 people in the Ullevi Stadium. He was became a member of on-stage by close friends including jazz saxophonist Nils Berg, musical stalwart Mattias Hellberg, and Lars-Erik “Labbe” Grimelund. The recordings of the concert were offered by the end of 2014 for loading. His next recording, Du Gamla du Fria, spent three weeks at number 1 in Sweden, and in addition charted extremely in Norway.