Lars Bygdén (born 1973) is a Swedish singer, song-writer and guitarist.

Biography

Lars Bygdén was born 1973 in

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, Sweden. His musical career started as a guitarist in the psychedelic bands Magic Broom and The Shades of Orange. In 1996 Bygdén formed the country-rock combo The Thousand Dollar Playboys. The group released two critically acclaimed albums and got a lot of attention in Swedish media. The band dissolved in 2003. Lars Bygdén has continued as a solo artist on the record label

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and released his first solo album Trading Happiness for Songs in 2005 which won the Swedish Manifest award for best singer-songwriter album of the year. The album included the song ''This Road'', a duet featuring

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(also featured on Brun's album

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). In 2006 Lars did the theme song for the Swedish TV-show Grattis Världen!, a cover of

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's ''The Passenger''. In the spring of 2009 Bygdén released his second solo-album, the conceptual Family Feelings. In 2011 he summoned 15 years of songwriting on the double album Songs I Wrote and in 2012 came the critically acclaimed LB from which the animated video to The Hole was both Grammy- and Manifest-nominated.

Discography

Albums with The Thousand Dollar Playboys

* 1999 ''The $1000 Playboys'' * 2001 ''Stay''

Solo albums

* 2005 ''Trading Happiness for Songs'' * 2009 ''Family Feelings'' * 2012 ''LB'' * 2018 ''Dark Companion''

Singles and EP's

* 2005 This Road EP * 2005 Dream On * 2006 The Passenger EP * 2012 I Believe in You * 2013 Maria * 2013 The Hole * 2018 We're Not About to Fall Apart

Compilation

* 2011 Songs I Wrote – double album

External links

Lars Bygdén's official homepage

Lars Bygdén on MySpace

Notes

www.larsbygden.com

Interview Aftonbladet
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