Lina Nyberg (born 27 February 1970) is a Swedish jazz singer and composer. She has composed works for string quartet, big band, and symphony orchestra. She is married to the Swedish jazz clarinettist and saxophonist
Fredrik Ljungkvist
HÃ¥kan ''Fredrik'' Ljungkvist (born 29 November 1969 in Kristinehamn, Sweden), is a Swedish jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), the son of saxophonist HÃ¥kan Ljungkvist and married to the jazz singer Lina Nyberg.
Career
Ljungkvist was ...
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Career
In 1990 Nyberg put together her own band, the Lina Nyberg Quintet, comprising Per "Texas" Johansson,
Esbjörn Svensson
Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson (16 April 1964 – 14 June 2008) was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.
Svensson became one of Europe's most successful jazz musicians at the tur ...
, Dan Berglund, and Mikel Ulfberg. After her graduation at the
Stockholm Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music, Stockholm ( sv, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was mad ...
as a Master of Fine Arts in 1993, Nyberg released her debut solo album ''Close'' (1993), a duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson from the well known Swedish trio
EST, and it became an instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a fruitful cooperation with the producer and owner of Prophone Records, Erland Boëthius.
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In 1995 the Lina Nyberg Quintet was awarded a Swedish Grammy Award for the album ''When the Smile Shines Through''. Nyberg has released over fourteen albums as a solo artist, filling the roles of composer, record producer, and singer. In September 2011 she released ''Palaver'' (Moserobie Records). Her music is a mixture of Brazilian tropicalia, European free form, contemporary classical, the ]Great American Songbook
The Great American Songbook is the loosely defined canon of significant early-20th-century American jazz standards, popular songs, and show tunes.
Definition
According to the Great American Songbook Foundation: The "Great American Songbook" is ...
, and traditional jazz.[
In 2013 the Lina Nyberg Band made its first tour in the U.S. and Canada. During her career, she has collaborated with Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, and the Fredrik Norén Band.
Since 2013 Lina has been working on a trilogy of albums, composing new music about the world and the elements for different kind of settings, exploring the art of instrumentation. Part 1, "Sirenades" (music for big band and her quintet), was released in 2014, part 2, "Aerials" (music for string quartet and her quintet) in 2016, and in autumn 2017 the final part, "Terrestrial" (Hoob records) was released. This time Lina has created music for symphony orchestra (and her band) on commission from the NorrlandsOpera Symphony Orchestra in Umeå.
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Awards and honors
* Swedish Grammy, Jazz Album of the Year, 1994
* Jazz Musician of the Year, Swedish Radio
Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is ...
, 2011
* Guest of Honour, Umeå
Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.
Situated on the Ume River, Umeà ...
International Jazz Festival, 2011
* Jazz Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 2016
Discography
* ''Close'' with Esbjorn Svensson (Prophone, 1993)
* ''When the Smile Shines Through'' (Prophone, 1994)
* ''So Many Stars'' (Prophone, 1996)
* ''Temper'' with Jacob Karlzon (Prophone, 1997)
* ''Open'' (Prophone, 1998)
* ''Smile'' (Prophone, 2000)
* ''Brasilien'' (Prophone, 2001)
* ''Time'' (Prophone, 2003)
* ''A Song Book'' (Spice of Life, 2003)
* ''Saragasso'' (Moserobie, 2004)
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Swedish jazz singers
20th-century Swedish women singers
21st-century Swedish women singers