Kalle Mattson (born Kalle Mattson Wainio, September 21, 1990, in

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) is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in

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. He has performed both as a solo artist and as the leader of an eponymous band.

History

Wainio was a high school student at Sir James Dunn Collegiate and Vocational School in Sault Ste. Marie, when he began writing songs under the pseudonym ''Kalle Mattson'' to deal with his grief after his mother, Anne Gilmour, who died of cancer when he was 16."'Happy song, happy video'; Viral video gives boost to dynamic Ottawa folk-rock band". ''

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'', November 24, 2011. In 2008 he released a 6-song EP ''Telescope'', limited to 150 copies, he self-recorded the EP with childhood friend Rory Lewis. He released his first full-length album ''Whisper Bee'' in 2009. It featured Lewis, local musician Frank Deresti and was recorded at the Sir James Dunn Collegiate and Vocational School music studio and was produced by teacher Mark Gough. By 2011 Kalle Mattson had grown into a full-band featuring Lewis, and fellow Sault-ites Thean Slabbert and Jimmie Chiverelli. The band released the album ''Anchors'' in 2011. The video for the song "Thick As Thieves", a "stop motion history of the world" created by animator Kevin Parry, attracted the band's first widespread media attention; as a result, the band signed to the independent record label Parliament of Trees, which reissued ''Anchors'' in late 2011. In 2012, they released the EP ''Lives in Between''. The EP was supported by the single "Water Falls", whose video was again animated by Parry as a portrait of San Francisco. In 2014 Mattson released the full-length album ''Someday, the Moon Will Be Gold''."Kalle Mattson: Someday, the Moon Will Be Gold"
''

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'', February 20, 2014. The album was produced by Gavin Gardiner from

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and featured

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, members of

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along with contributions from Lewis, Slabbert, JF Beauchamp and Kyle Woods. The album's cover was a painting by Mattson's mother, and the lyrical themes addressed Mattson coming to terms with the deaths of his mother and grandmother. The album was supported by concert tours in Europe and Canada, and was longlisted for the

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. The EP's title track was accompanied by a video, directed by Philip Sportel, which depicts Mattson creatively recreating 35 iconic album covers over the course of 3:45 featuring the likes of

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and

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. The video received a

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nomination for Video of the Year at the

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and a

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nomination for Best Director at the

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, and won the 2016

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's single "

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". In 2016, Mattson toured Canada as an opening act for

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. He released his newest album, ''Youth'', in 2018. The album was once again produced by Colin Munroe and was mixed by

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. Mattson has also collaborated with Andrew Sowka in the project Summersets, which released the EP ''Small Town Saturday'' in 2020.Sarah Chodos
"summersets' 'Small Town Saturday' Is Easy to Fall in Love With"
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'', August 24, 2020.

Discography

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Official website
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History

Discography

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