Pia Fridhill

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Pia Fridhill (born October 25, 1970 in Malmö ) is a Swedish singer .

Life

Her father is a trumpeter and engineer ; her mother cantor . The singer, who now lives in Germany, began singing in various amateur bands during her engineering studies at Halmstad University , including "Chickenwire", "Maxwell Street Soulband", the blues band "Blinded" and the a cappella group she founded "Tune Up". After studying innovation engineering, she began her career at Hassbjer Micro Systems (now HMS Industrial Networks ). In 1997 she became Managing Director of the subsidiary HMS Sensors AB and set up a representative office for the company in Düsseldorf .

During her time in Düsseldorf she founded the blues band "Halmstad Connection" with guitarist Dirk Mainz and performed several times as a soloist in the "John C. Marshall Band". In 1999 Pia Fridhill ended her managerial career to devote herself to music. Together with John C. Marshall she recorded her first album Blues Business in 2000 and at the same time produced the track The Fieldbus Man Blues (music: John C. Marshall, text: Perry Sink), a promotional song for the products of her former employers. She met the songwriter Jens Hoffmann, whom she married in 2002. Together they founded the band "Breakfast", for which they wrote songs.

In 2002, Pia Fridhill and Jens Hoffmann produced the long play album "Breakfast on the roof" in collaboration with John C. Marshall , who wrote the arrangements and brass parts for the record. Together with the blues band "Halmstad Connection", Pia Fridhill recorded the CD Welcome to the blues alley in 2004 . When she moved from Cologne to Kall in 2005, she met the bassist Wilhelm Geschwind, with whom she revised her own compositions. Instead of the big "big band sound", the songs were reduced to the essentials. In 2005 the acoustic Pia Fridhill Trio (bass, guitar, vocals) was founded. The trio produced the CD trilogy "Triptychon". Pia Fridhill brings her Swedish roots into play for the first time and presents a Swedish folk song on every CD.

In 2012 the album "My Swedish Songbook" will be released in collaboration with Aachen jazz pianist Stefan Michalke, a homage to Swedish music history, consisting of jazzed up folk songs from Pia Fridhill's homeland. Then the singer returns to her own music, which she writes with her husband Jens Hoffmann in a Waldhaus in Kall. In 2014 and 2017 the couple released the albums "Four" and "Every Morning Is A New Song" a. a. with New York guitarist Adam Rafferty.

Parallel to her musical career, Pia Fridhill has been a teacher of the Feldenkrais method since 2013.

Discography

  • 2000: Blues Business (Shuttle Records)
  • 2002: Breakfast on the roof (Shuttle Records)
  • 2004: Welcome to the blues alley (Shuttle Records)
  • 2006: Triptychon Part I - It's time ... (Elk Music)
  • 2006: Triptychon Part II - This moment ... (Elk Music)
  • 2007: Triptychon Part III - Until now ... (Elk Music)
  • 2008: Songbook (Elk Music)
  • 2012: My Swedish Songbook (Elk Music)
  • 2014: Four (ZeitArt Records)
  • 2017: Every Morning Is A New Song (ZeitArt Records)

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personal data
SURNAME Fridhill, Pia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo