Rebecka Törnqvist

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Rebecka Törnqvist (2009)

Rebecka Maria Törnqvist (born April 26, 1964 in Uppsala , Sweden ) is a Swedish pop and jazz singer.

Life

Rebecka Törnqvist was born as the daughter of a teacher and journalist and a physicist and musician in the Swedish university city of Uppsala. Since her father worked for the development aid organization SIDA in Africa , she spent some time as a little girl in Lesotho and a longer period in Kenya . There she learned to speak English and to listen to the music of East Africa. The latter was her father's hobbyhorse , who enjoyed playing music with the locals or listening to them himself. The daughter who was shaped in this way was sent to a Swedish boarding school when compulsory schooling began . From then on she also absorbed the popular styles of music.

Having become a musician, she sang in jazz clubs before her debut album A Night Like This was released in the fall of 1993 , which is a mixture of jazz and pop and found 100,000 buyers, which meant platinum . Despite five nominations for the Swedish Grammy, she received one as best pop singer (1996) only for her second album Good Thing , which was released in autumn 1995 and had also been upgraded to platinum. The pop-heavy and blues-soaked album was a radio success and opened the markets of all (inhabited) continents for the new Scandinavian artist. While various Swedish elite jazz musicians were present as guests on their debut, such as Esbjörn Svensson , Anders Widmark and Per "Texas" Johansson , their 1996 album Stockholm Kaza Session is a pure jazz album, in which saxophonist Johansson played a major role. In 1998 Tremble My Heart was released, which in turn serves the pop / jazz mix-loving clientele. Her constant mentor Pål Svenre had remained the producer , but had stayed out of the songwriting process , so Törnqvist had a deeper intimacy with her work.

In 1999 she was involved in the formation of the band Gloria led by Lars Halapi . She got on well with her fellow singer-songwriter Sara Isaksson , who later worked with Anders Widmark in the same way as Törnqvist. The sympathy resulted in a joint album in October 2006 on which Steely Dan songs are presented acoustically. One of the songs - and once again the networking with the jazz scene - is accompanied by Per "Texas" Johansson on oboe and saxophone . 2001 Halapi produced the next album Törnqvists. Then she presented her songs for the first time in Swedish . Other songs sung in their native language appeared on two concept compilations in 2005 . A second album by Gloria was released in 2003, followed in 2004 by the solo work Travel Like in Songs, which was in the Swedish charts at the personal record # 10 . Melting into Orange and The Cherry Blossom and the Skyline Rising from the Street were released every two years . Johan Lindström , who had worked on the arrangements and played the guitar on Tremble My Heart, took over the production on both occasions . Törnqvist tried his hand at pop again in early 2011 with the album Scorpions . With position 25 in the Swedish charts it was only slightly below the average value of the previous albums, but it fell out quite early on, after two weeks.

Discography

  • 1993: A Night Like This ( EMI )
  • 1995: Good Thing (EMI)
  • 1996: The Stockholm Kaza Session (with Per "Texas" Johansson) (EMI)
  • 1998: Tremble My Heart (EMI)
  • 2001: Vad Jag Vill ( Metronome )
  • 2004: Travel Like in Songs (EMI)
  • 2006: Melting into Orange (EMI)
  • 2006: Fire in the Hole - Sara Isaksson & Rebecca Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan (Moule Recordings)
  • 2008: The Cherry Blossom and the Skyline Rising from the Street (EMI)
  • 2011: Scorpions ( Warner Music )
  • 2017: Home Secretary (Moule Recordings)

With Gloria

  • 1999: Gloria (Warner Music)
  • 2003: People Like You and Me (Warner Music)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Rebecka Törnqvist. Bio / albums. Biography. (No longer available online.) In: rebeckatornqvist.se. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014 ; accessed on June 19, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rebeckatornqvist.se
  2. ↑ a b c d e f EMI Electrola Presse (ed.): Rebecka Törnqvist (=  Profile ). Cologne September 1995 (promo sheet).
  3. ↑ a b c d Lars Lovén: Rebecka Törnqvist. Artist Biography by Lars Lovén. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved June 19, 2014 (English).
  4. ^ Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist - Fire In The Hole (Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan). In: discogs.com. Retrieved June 19, 2014 (English).
  5. ^ Rebecka Törnqvist - Scorpions. In: acharts.us. Retrieved June 19, 2014 (English).

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personal data
SURNAME Törnqvist, Rebecka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Törnqvist, Rebecka Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish pop and jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala , Sweden