Peter Andreas Morén (born 5 May 1976) is a

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musician. He is the guitarist and vocalist of the indie rock trio

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. He is also a founding member of the Stockholm-based artist collective

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. He was born and raised in

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, and started his musical career playing the violin, but soon changed to the guitar. His musical interest made him move to the town Västerås, where he entered a high school music programme at the Carlforsska gymnasiet and met

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also studied at the high school at the same time. In 1999, when Morén was studying film science in Stockholm, he met John Eriksson at a party and they began discussing the comic

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and indie rock band

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. After the meeting, they started to jam together with Morén's friend

, which ended up in the creation of

. During this period, Morén had also joined The Plan, playing bass on their 2001 self-titled debut album. However, in 2002 he decided to leave the group to concentrate on Peter Bjorn and John's first record. Morén has released four solo albums; in April 2008 he released a solo album in English, ''

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'' followed in 2010 by the Swedish-language '' I Spåren Av Tåren''. His third solo album, ''

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'', was released in late 2012 and is named after the ghost town of

as well as referring to the pyramid as a tomb and to abstract concepts such as pyramid schemes. The album's first single, 'Odyssén', was released prior to the album with the b-side 'Vinstintressen'. A one-track digital download of the second single followed, the Swedish-language version of the song 'Say My Name', previously featured (sung in English) on the

compilation album ''Volym 1''. In early 2017 he released another solo album, ''40'', featuring multiple collaborations and covers. In 2019, he paired up with fellow Swedish pop songwriter David Shutrick to release the collaborative EP ''En Åldrande Befolkning''. Later that year, the duo recorded three more songs and re-released ''En Åldrande Befolkning'' as a full-length album. The album features as its cover artwork an unattributed painting found at a flea market. Morén is a member of Tutankamon together with Adam Olenius of

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, Daniel Värjö of

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, and Niklas Korsell who was the drummer of the Plan during Morén's stint in the band. Since 2012, Morén has begun to release a series of EPs featuring English translations and rewritings of his most popular Swedish-language songs, including 'Say My Name', 'Esther' and 'The Odyssey'. These EPs are named the 'Broken Swenglish' series.

Discography

Albums

*''

'' (2008) *'' I Spåren Av Tåren'' (2010) *''

'' (2012) *''40'' (2017) *''En Åldrande Befolkning'' (with David Shutrick) (2019)

Singles and EPs

*Social Competence (2008) *Reel Too Real (2008) *Esther (2010) *Odyssén (2012) *Säg Mitt Namn (2012) *Tröstpriset (2012) *Broken Swenglish Vol. 1 EP (2013) *Broken Swenglish Vol. 2 EP (2014) *Rytmen I Blodet / Mitt Bästa Porslin (2016) *Pärleporten (2016) *100 År (with David Shutrick) (2019) *Oljud (with David Shutrick) (2019)

References

External links

:PETER MORÉN
- Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Moren, Peter Swedish rock musicians Swedish rock singers Swedish rock guitarists 1976 births Living people People from Mora Municipality Wichita Recordings artists Peter Bjorn and John members 21st-century Swedish singers 21st-century guitarists 21st-century Swedish male singers English-language singers from Sweden