Lykke Li

Nao é de agora que os suecos comecaram a demonstrar grande qualidade (e mais recentemente quantidade) de producao musical.

Mando Diao, The Hives, Those Dancing Days, The Knife, Johnossi, Peter Bjorn & John, Jens Lekman, Shout Out Louds, José Gonzalez, Sally Shapiro, Esbjörn Svensson Trio... e isto pode ir longe demais. Com uma lista destas constantemente a aumentar eu nao percebi como é que ainda consigo me surpreender quando mais um salta `a vista. Pois mais um saltou. Neste caso uma.

"Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (born March 18, 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden), better known by her stage name Lykke Li, is an indie singer.

She was raised by artistic parents (her mother was a photographer, her father is a musician) and lived in Portugal for five years, and spent winters in Nepal and India. At one point, she worked as a dancer on Swedish TV shows.

She released her first album, Youth Novels on LL Recordings in the Nordic region on 4 February 2008 and it will receive a wider European release this June. The album was produced by Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John and Lasse Marten. It will be released in the US on 6 May 2008. The album will be released in the UK on June 9th.

She had some success with the EP "Little Bit" in 2007. Stereogum named her an artist to watch in October 2007 and described her music as a mix of soul, electro and powdered-sugar pop."