Gustav Ernest Viktor Lundgren (born 18 September 1980 in

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Biography

Lundgren started playing the guitar at the age of thirteen and went to Södra Latin's music program during high school. He then studied music at

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folk high school and Fridhems folk high school in

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. After finishing his studies, he joined the Hot Club de Suede and started a jazz club at Hannas Krog at

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in Stockholm. He participates in several music projects, including his own Gustav Lundgren Quartet, and plays a particular Spanish-inspired jazz. He runs his own record company, Lundgren Music.

Honors

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: Honored with his own signature guitar model from AJL-Guitars *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

: Recipient of the

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Scholarship *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

: Honored with a grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Discography

Solo albums

* 2004: ''First Impression'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Quartet/Quintet *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: ''Second Opinion'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Quartet *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: ''8 Venues'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Quartet *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

: ''Plays Django Reinhardt'' (Lundgren Music) *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: ''French Connection'' (Lundgren Music) *

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

: ''Bertheleville'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Trio *

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

: ''At The Movies'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren & Unit

Collaborations

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: ''29m²'' (SJR), with Mozaique *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

: ''Avec'' (SJR), with Hot Club de Suede * 2005: ''Django Project vol. 1'' (Lundgren Music), with Anders Larsson *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: ''Django Project vol. 2'' (Lundgren Music), with Anders Larsson *

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

: ''Take Two'' (Lundgren Music), with Stockholm Swing All Stars * 2012: ''Janeiro'' (Lundgren Music), with Daniel Santiago * 2012: ''Barcelona / Estocolmo'' (Lundgren Music), with Fredrik Carlquist *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

: ''Plays Richard Rodgers'' (Lundgren Music), with Trio Legacy * 2013: ''Bossa Nova vol. 1'' (Lundgren Music), with Fredrik Carlquist * 2014: ''Passageiros'' (Lundgren Music), with Lili Araujo * 2014: ''Cruce de Caminos'' (Lundgren Music), with Celia Mur * 2015 : ''Mar'' (Lundgren Music), with Luiz Murá * 2017: ''Jazz Vol. 1'' (Lundgren Music), with

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References

External links

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Lundgren Music website
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