Anders Wrethov, professionally known as Anderz Wrethov, is a Swedish songwriter and producer.

Biography

Wrethov was born in

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the mo ...

and grew up in

Vellinge Vellinge is a locality and the seat of Vellinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of ...

. He graduated from

Musikhögskolan A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

in 2002. He sings and plays the piano and the guitar. He began learning to play the guitar at the age of seven, and also took piano lessons. In the 1980s he started listening to

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...

music, and playing the electric guitar. Since graduating from Musikhögskolan, where he studied guitar, piano and song, he has worked as a producer and songwriter.

Career

Wrethov has worked with a number of artists in Sweden and abroad; he and his sister Elin were part of the songwriting team for the song

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, the Azerbaijani entry to the

Eurovision Song Contest 2009 The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Moscow, Russia, following the country's victory at the with the song "Believe (Dima Bilan song), Believe" by Dima Bilan. Organised by the Euro ...

. He has also co-written and produced songs for

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song ...

, the Swedish qualifying contest for the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...

, several times. In 2019 he co-wrote four of the entries, including the winning song, "Too Late For Love". In 2021, he was part of the team that wrote and produced the song "Voices", which won the Melodifestivalen in that year. He also wrote the official song for the Swedish football team for the

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in 2011. In 2011, Wrethov released his first single and made his debut as a singer.

References

External links

Official website
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