Hans Oskar "Kihlen" Linnros (born August 15, 1983 in

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) is a

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musician. He was part of the alternative hip hop band

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alongside

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, before going solo and releasing his solo studio debut album '' Vilja bli'' that reached number 2 on the Swedish Albums Chart. The track "Från och med Du" from the album reached the top of

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, the official Swedish Singles Chart. Oskar Linnros has also produced a number of other artists including acts Petter,

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and

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Biography

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Linnros started out as a rapper in the

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duo

together with

released two albums: ''Vi vet inte vart vi ska men vi ska komma dit'' in 2004 and ''Är'' in 2006 receiving both praise and heavy criticism. The bands unorthodox hip hop was met by comments that the band wasn’t ''keeping it real'' and the fact that Adams-Ray spent his teenage years in Lidingö caused critics to label them “Upper class rappers”. Despite some critics, the band had many hits, received awards from radio station P3, The 2003 ''Swedish Hip-hop Awards'' 2003, and best Swedish band at the

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2006.

Post Snook

drifted apart.

attended design school ''Berghs School of Communication'' Linnros started producing other artists such as rapper Petter, soft rockers

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. The album Linnros produced and wrote for Maggio, ''Och vinnaren är...'' was nominated for five Swedish Grammies. The two had met while working on a remix for Petter and became romantically involved. He also started Baile funk and electro influenced rap group

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. The group is still around but Linnros left. He explained to newspaper ''

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'' that it was just a fun project with friends and he was tired of "

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music".

Solo

In June 2010, Oskar Linnros released '' Vilja bli'', an album he had written, played and produced. The album contained hardly any

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vocals and was quickly compared to

artists such as

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and ''Peter LeMarc'', artists that were extremely popular in

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in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Linnros admitted that he wanted to bring back an updated version of that sound. He also named

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and

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as influences. The album received very good reviews and influential music journalist Jan Gradvall wrote that the album "is one of the most complete Swedish debut album I have heard and full of hits". Oskar was nominated for a Swedish Grammies 2018 in "Best Pop" for the album "Väntar på en Ängel".

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

Singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Linnros, Oskar Living people 1983 births Swedish hip hop musicians Swedish pop singers Swedish soul singers Swedish songwriters Swedish-language singers 21st-century Swedish singers Musicians from Stockholm Singers from Stockholm 21st-century Swedish male singers