We wrote about music, because it’s a pretty big industry here in Sweden. Here in Sweden we have a music gala called "Grammisgalan" as you can read below. And we wrote about two of our more famous music groups here in Sweden. The first Swedish Grammisgala took place at Berns Salonger in Stockholm on the 25th of September 1969. Among the first winners were Monica Zetterlund, Svante Turesson, Cornelius Vreeswijk, Tommy Körberg, Bengt Hambraeus, Jan Johansson, Stikkan Anderson, Anders Burman . The specially designed Grammissymbol made by the silversmith Claës E. Giertta is still the same today but a lot of things have changed since the first gala thirty years ago. The definition that the jury has says: "Grammis has been created to draw attention to and reward artists, musicians and creators who have made interesting productions within different areas of music. Grammis shall symbolize a broad and artistic Swedish music production". The Grammis awards are the prizes of the record branch to the best artists of the year and to the best music productions. There are eighteen prizes altogether for eighteen categories and there are often some extra prizes. |
The winners of this years garammisgala
| The album of the year: | Christian Falk, Quel Bordel |
| The song of the year: | Patrik Isaksson , Du får göra som du vill |
| The artist of the year: | Thåström |
| The pop and rockgroup of the year: | Kent, Hagnesta Hill |
| The Women of pop and rockartist of the year: | Robyn, My Truth |
| The Male of pop and rockartist of the year of the year: | Petter, Bananrepubliken |
| The rookie of the year: | Patrik Isakson, När vekligheten tränger sig på |
| The hardrock of the year: | Lok, Naken blästrad och sur |
| The modern dance of the year: | Christian Falk, Quel bordel |
| The dance band of the year: | Barbados, Belinda |
| The Jazz and Blues of the year: | Bernt Rosengren Octet,Bernt Rosengren plays Evert Taube |
| The folksong of the year: | Freddie Wadling, En skiva till kaffet |
| The classical album of the year: | Cecillia Zilliacus och Bergi, Åke Lundin, Svenska violin sonater |
| The children of the year: | Jojje Wadenlus, Zoppa |
| The song writer of the year: | Lars Winnerback |
| The composer of the year: | Patrik Isaksson |
| The producer of the year: | Christian Falk |
| The video of the year: | Lambretta, Blow my fuses/Absolutely Nothing |
| The honour prize of the jury: | Povel Ramel |
| The special prize of the jury: | Chelron Productions |
PetterPetter is one of Sweden’s best and biggest male artist in this new millennium. He was born just outside our capital city and he is 24 years old. He choked Sweden with he’s great music for about two years ago. His first hit was a song called "Vinden har vänt". He got really famous here in Sweden with that song and the following album sold really well. After the release it took just two or three months before the next single and album was on its way. The next album was not as successful as the first one. He did another album the same year but that was no success either. So after that album it was quiet around Petter for a while. Petter was working hard in the studio with new songs. So one year later the next single and album called "Saker och ting". One month later the next album called "Bananrepubliken" came and this was the best selling album ever for Petter. It was whit this album Petter was nominated to "Grammisgalan" and he got the prise for the best male pop or rock artist in Sweden the year 2000. Here you got a list of Petters musical carrier Bananrepubliken CD 1999-11-15 Saker och ting CD-Single 1999-10-25 Saker och ting CD 1999-10-25 Mikrofonkåt CD-Single 1998-12-14 Mikrofonkåt CD 1998-12-14 Sidewalk Headliners CD 1998-10-26 Mitt Sjatte Sinne CD 1998-08-24 Vinden Har Vänt CD-Single 1998-07-13 |
The CARDIGANSThe Cardigans are a band From Jönköping, Sweden. (It’s in the southern part of our country) The band started in October 1992 by Peter Svensson and Magnus Sveningsson. Bengt Lagerberg joined the band in the late October. Now the only thing they needed was a singer. So, they found Nina Persson, and she came for an audition. That went very well, so from that day on she was their new singer. Their first C.D came in 1994, it was called "Emmerdale". It didn’t sell so much, but now people knew that they existed. When they released their second album 1995, "Life", they became pretty famous in Japan, United Kingdom and the U.S.A. Every single from "life" reached the top 40-charts in U.K. They were fast in the studio to, even the year after (1996) came a new C.D called "the first band on the moon". And from that C.D they have a BIG hit called "Lovefool", that was a song that was ALWAYS on MTV. And their latest album "Gran Turismo" came 1998. It went very well for that album, and they had some hits from that one to. Especially the song whit the same name as the album (Gran Turismo). When they started the band, everyone was dreaming like ALL musicians do. They wanted to tour the world. And five years from that they have been to Japan several times, they have been on the cover for magazines and so on, so they had a fast carrier. Changing from being a bunch nobodies to a known artist over the world, in five years. That’s very good.The band members are:
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