I have been sick for a couple of weeks now. Everybody get´s a cold in the springtime, but now I´m well again.
I sang and played on a funeral this Friday and it was the first time in two weeks that I dared to take a ton, considering my cold. The performance was alright but in the end of the song my voice broke down and gave up. Out came three quite unpleasent tones. I think nobody noticed except the Cantor but for me it was a disaster…
I have been working a lot on Kenneth Gärdestads song. I wrote a melody to it and then I wrote another one since I wasn´t satisfied with it. Then I wrote some more melodies and today I wrote the final song, cause this one is a really nice melody I think. I´m gonna keep it (I hope Kenneth likes it too).
I have some performances this Summer and I think I will play this song then. It is in Swedish and it´s quite scary to sing in swedish when I´m used to english. The words feels so close and naked… But it´s a really good song he wrote…

Kenneth Gärdestad is a great song writer or maybe I should say lyricist. He wrote all of his brother Ted Gärdestads songs and also two of Teds melodies ”Jag vill ha en egen måne” and ”Hela världen runt”. I met him this Thursday to learn to know him better and then we´ll see if we will do something musical together. He is very nice. He works as an arcitect and musician, about 50-50 %. He told me ”I think that it´s important to have a life outside the music, otherwise I don´t experience enough to write about”. We talked for a couple of hours and I was quite taken by his life story.
Made me think a lot….
Yesterday I joined Svante Thuresson and Claes Crona on a concert. Svante is an artist who has been active for many years as a jazz, Sclager, and ballad singer. He had a concert on a jazzclub yesterday. I know his pianist Claes Crona, who is also an artist booker. Claes is one of the best swedish jazzpianists and he booked this concert in Täby on this jazzclub. Claes likes what i do and I like what he does, though we have different styles. He wanted me to come and see them and of course I would love to! It came quite much people. Svante sang jazz standards like ”Waltz for Debbie” and ”People who need people”. He has a fantastic voice and the audience seemed happy.
Then they gave me their flowers (Tulips) after the concert and we went home. It gave me inspiration to see how they work before, during and after the concert.

I took a day off today and focused on reading about how to practise….
Here are some pics from the concert.

It was awhile since I wrote here, it has been quite much lately.
All hard work with the music has given results! After performing in Malmö I went off to Blidö, (My mum´s summerhouse) to relax for a week.
Yesterday I performed at Berns. The sound was great and the grand piano was lovely! The soundcheck was quite fun cause the sound electrician didn´t find the on – button on the piano so I had to show him. It has never ever happened before. 🙂
He was really good and gave me the perfect sound. I talked to him and he told me he is touring with Robyn and that she has one technician for each instrument! That is really something!
I´m glad to be solo, makes things more easy. 🙂

I played from 22.30 til one with some breaks between. It was quite much people and everyone was from Statoil because it was a company event. Afterwards I got nice comments from the audience and then they let the party-people in outside the event and started the dancefloor.
I don´t really like the superficiality that is out there so I took off after talking to the really nice people on the event.
The lighting technician was a really kind person that performed with really nice artists. I like to talk to people that are down to earth and has a good taste in music. 🙂
It took really long time to get home yesterday. I was home around four so I am really tired today. Actually I should practice piano for 2,5 hours but I don´t have the strenght to do it today. I think it can be good for the developement to have small breakes sometimes.
I am so happy to have my music! Love it!

Performing at Berns 9/10

Performing at Berns 9/10

My performances this week went well. I was in Kista at a Fair and sang some songs through CMC music, wich is a artist booking agency. They liked it and wanted me to come back so I performed on Thursday too. The purpose of the performance was to get booking for more gigs from the people circling round on the Fair.
Now I am back home from a funeral. I played Gärdestad songs and some flute.
I have this evening to relax and then tomorrow I will take the train to Malmö to play at a party after Swedish Song Contest. It has really been much this week and I need to take a break after this but right now I need to rehearsal some songs for tomorrow cause I have to play for a couple of hours.
But still, I love what I do!

I´ve got a busy week coming up! Tomorrow I will play the piano in Hallonbergen, Tuesday I work at Fridhemsplan and then I will go and have a meeting with CMC music. CMC is the greatest artist – boking agency in Sweden. I will probably play a few songs too.
Then the week continues with playing the piano, perform on a funeral and on Saturday I´m going to Malmö to play at a party after Swedish Song Contest.
It´really fun! I´m gonna stay at a hotel and play for three hours for the guests.

This is my version of the song ”So good”. The original song is from a japanees children´s tv-program called ”Bratz”.
This is the Sofia Ullman version with cello.

I have a quite busy period right now. On Sunday I´play in a church as a soloist. I will sing some pieces, play the piano and the crossflute. Next week there are a funeral and another ”soloistmission”.
I will dedicate this weekend to practice.
Besides that I´m trying to learn Chopin ”Fantasi Impromptu” on piano. It´s quite hard and will take awhile. Especially if I want to play it without scores.
I wrote two new songs in two weeks. I have the melodi and the chords but the words are missing. I sent the songs to a very talented writer and musician to take a look at.
I hope inspiration will come.

One of my first concerts this year is tomorrow when I will play the piano, flute and sing with a choir. I will play the piano on 2 Christmas songs, improvise some flute and sing solo with the choir behind.
I think it will be lovely. I haven´t met them yet. I got the scores a month ago to practice at home and tomorrow we will put everything together.
If you didn´t see my new musicvideo, watch it here:

I have been without my piano in 3 days. When I saw it again it was like heaven.
I practice Chopin and Grieg right now but mostly I have to practise for my next concert in January.
I will play the piano, crossflute and sing Christmas songs. I think I will mix the chords with scores for it to sound as good as possible. My flute is on repair so I have to wait for it and play on another flute meanwhile. When I get it back it will sound like a new flute I hope.
I´ve noticed my forearm is really tense right now from all practise. But it´s so fun to play so I can´t stop. Tomorrow it´s New Years Eve.
Happy new year everyone!

This is my latest musicvideo ”If I say so”.
I recorded it in Linköping. First we filmed were outside a monastery. I danced to a cd-player with the song ”If I say so” and jumped around on rocks. After awhile some angry people came out and told us they wanted to be alone in the monastery. We continued to film in a hospital. I jumped up from a dustbin and danced in a tunnel. We also filmed some scenes outside. It was really cold!
I danced around in Linköping while people stared at us. I was kind of crazy jumped around on everything. 🙂
I also found a friend that wanted to join me in the video.
I composed the song and Anders Dannvik produced it. Anders is known for writing songs to the Song Contest.
Fredrik Ek filmed it.
Check it out!