Tonight I have a performance at Hotel Quality Win in Haninge. I will play the piano and sing my own material. The concert will have a theme if you listen to the texts. The funny thing is that when I put together the program I didn´t think about it. I choose the songs that I really feel like playing. It ended up being mainly the same style according to the texts. The mood changes and so does the songs…. 🙂
I hope to see you there tonight at 18.

About a week ago an A & R (looking for artists) sent me a mail asking me to be in a competition. The winner gets to be Opening Act for Brian Mcknight. I registered for the competition and the judges would pick out about 20 artists that they belived in for the competition. Tonight I got a mail telling me to go in on :www.openingact.se to see if I advanced in the competition and I did. I found my name there so now I want everybody to vote for me in the competition. To vote you send a textmessage to number 72500 and write: ”Oa 1 Sofia” (the letter o, not the number)
If you wont to help I would be greatful. 🙂

My 3 songs are now recorded. Jippi! Anders Dannvik has done a great job and the songs are really good hits. For the ballad I arranged a violin part and my friend Helena recorded it here in my studio. Then I sent all the tracks on the song to Anders and we put some more strings on it and put an untuned piano on it.
Maybe it sounds strange with an untuned piano but the thing is that it was a great compliment for the strings, the ballad has a modern sound now.
Since Anders and I are friends he has helped me quite much to guide me in the musicjungle. I also have some requests to attend a music competition and to play a Christmas song on the radio.
And in 3 weeks I will have a concert on the Hotel where we recorded my musicvideo.
I think it will be mostly ballads cause I will sit by the piano.
So if you want to be there it is in Haninge at the hotel right beside the station.

Right now I´m on vaccation because  it´s Halloween. I am really concentating on writing new songs to complement my 3 new songs that I record with Anders.
Some days it goes well and some days I have no inspiration. I have some really good texts coming straight from my mind after some really deep thoughts. I did save them and put music to them. Tomorrow I´m going to Anders again to complete my ballad ”I deny”. I am really really pleased with what he has done for the songs. He did really well and the songs feels like great hits! I have to stop now cause I want to get on with the songwriting. See ya soon. 🙂

Last weekend I was in the studio with Anders and he pushed me to sing in a way I have never sang before. It gave me a lot of pressure to be as good as possible. He wanted me to sound like an afro-american woman and improvice tunes at the same time + improvise the lyrics. This was in a small piece at the end of a song. I tried and tried and he pushed me more and gave me more inputs.
I tried and tried and though I sing a lot and practice music every day it got to much for me. I got a terrible performance anexiety and had to go out from the studio to take a break and think it over.
But the rest of the day went fine though the terrible feeling was in me for awhile before I got it out. I don´t usually get that feeling when I play music but I guess it was a good thing that he pushed me to get better.
We agreed that I shall arrange the strings for the slow songs so I tried yesterday to arrange a bit of the song. It was hard because it just happened a terrible thing, my grandma died this Thursday. I got really sad and sometimes I had to stop playing but at the same time I want to play it for her. All music I compose now is for her, including the strings arrangement. It´s to hard to write about this so I have to stop here but I write again when feeling better…….

Today Anders showed me the guitar that was added on 2 of the songs while I was in London. The gutiarist didn´t get much of directions more than to play pop, r´n´b with a modern sound and play a lot with it. We wanted to see what he could manage.The first song ”I heard you” was great, by my opinion. It was a lot of cool effects and small fills on the guitar that sounds fresh and cool. On the other song I thought the guitar was a little bit to jazzy and kind and generally I wanted more ”oa oa” guitar (I have no clue how to spell it).
Anders came up with a great idea. He did a variation on Snoop Doggy Doggs synth/vocal-sound and recorded my voice, then he mixed it with a synth sound and put some effects on it. It sounded great!
We worked on the song ”If I say so” and he cut it so we got a whole version of it with recorded song.
Tomorrow we will continue with Choir and lead vocals on the song ”I heard you”.

Back home from London. I left with an empty trunk and came back with a heavy one.
Today I got some good news from Anders Dannvik that the guitar has been added on the songs. The guitarist did the recordings this weekend while I was in London, according to our plans. I must say again that it´s very nice to work with Anders cause he is very efficient, good at what he is doing and professional. I don´t have to ask twice to get things done like I quite often have to with people doing music. Some people love music and put that extra touch on their masterpieces. This weekend we will do the recordings on the vocals and I will listen to what the guitarist has achieved.

Right now I´m at the airport on my way to London. The plane is 2 hours late!!
I have been kind of busy lately so I didn´t tell you more about the single album I started recording. We started recording last weekend. The producer is a great musician, producer and songwriter and his name is Anders Dannvik. He has composed songs for The Eurovision Song Conntest and he has composed songs for some famous Japanees artists. He also worked with some swedish artists. You can read more about his work on http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Dannvik

Anders has also been my pianoteacher. He encouraged me a lot and has helped me developing as an artist and musician. Now we are working togheter and it feels great.
Last weekend we started to build up 3 songs, starting with drums and base. We diskuss the sounds for the songs while recording. When we had the foundation ready we started with the vocals. Anders pushed me to take some difficult keys with my voice, which I really liked. I want to develope and he is good at helping me out. When we finished the foundation of the 3 songs we discovered that one of the songs needed a bridge. (A part in the middle that is different from the rest of the song). I felt some pressure then trying to come up with a bridge before going to London. We even spoke today about the bridge before I left. The reason for hurrying with it is that Anders will send the songs to a guitarist that will do some recordings for the weekend while I´m gone.
When I come home I will be excited to hear it.

Next week I will start working on my new single record. It will include 3 songs, 2 uptempo and a slow song. I have composed over 100 songs, and I had to pic out about 15 songs that I thought possible to record. I choose the songs I really love. Me and the producer (which name I will keep a secret until we start the prosess of recording) choose among those 15 songs that I performed for him by the piano. We had quite the same opinion. We thought about what we like and what songs that really got into your mind after only one listening. I feel really exited about theese songs and about the producers work, cause I know he´s really good! He never does anything half-good. He wants to do things really professional. I will tell you more about it when we started the recording…..

Now my musicvideo is here!
You will find it under the headline ”Music” here at my site.
I really wanted to do a musicvideo on this song, cause it´s one of my really personal songs. I have also played this song for 2 Music Publishing Labels. I went up to their offices and played it on my digital piano. They liked it but I have decided that I want to have it and perform it myself. Some of my songs are really personal, written for myself and I can not give them away.
So I can proudly present for you my song ”It matters now”.
Have a nice look! 🙂