Maria Jeanette Lindström is a Swedish singer, composer and lyricist. She grew up in

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and Ås in the Jämtland region of Sweden.

Early life and career

Lindstrom grew up listening to her parents' record collection. Her father was a drummer, and she grew up hearing jazz, soul, Brazilian music, and Swedish folk music. At two years old she started piano lessons and played piano and organ through her teens. But she turned to singing in college, singing worldess accompaniment in a quartet. While still in college, she recorded her first album, ''Another Country''. In 1995 she graduated from the

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in Stockholm. She has worked with

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, and

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. In 1995, the year she was awarded the Jazz in Sweden prize. In 2003 she began a collaboration with the Bonnier Amigo Music Group on the album ''Walk''. The album and its sequel, ''In the Middle of This Riddle'', were warmly received by audiences and critics in Sweden and abroad. On the album ''Whistling Away the Dark'', she recorded with

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, Jonas Östholm, and

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—a side project apart from her band. In 2007 the song "Leaf", from ''In the Middle of This Riddle'', was remixed by

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, a DJ and record producer from Philadelphia, and a track from the album was chosen for the compilation series

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(Volume 7). She received a

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for Jazz of the Year at the 2010 awards ceremony.

Discography

* ''Another Country'' (Caprice, 1995) * ''I Saw You'' (Caprice, 1997) * ''Sinatra/Weill'' (Caprice, 1999) * ''Feathers'' with

(Prophone, 2000) * ''Walk'' (Amigo, 2003) * ''In the Middle of This Riddle'' (Amigo, 2005) * ''Whistling Away the Dark'' (Amigo, 2006) * ''Attitude & Orbit Control'' (Diesel Music, 2009) * ''Queen on the Hillside'' (Diesel, 2019)

References

External links

Official website
* Randy McElligott, Jazz Review.com, 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20030928111815/http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm?ID=5221, * Alex Dutilh, Jazzman – le journal de tous les jazz, 2003/05 nr 91, page 48 * Ulf Gustavsson, Upsala Nya Tidning, 2003-02-19, Nöje page A11 * Stefan Herdell, LT, 2005-05-06, https://web.archive.org/web/20050507152932/http://www.ltz.se/artikel_standard.php?id=232982&avdelning_1=124&avdelning_2=149 * Tor Hammerø, Puls, 2005-05-06, http://www.puls.no/13375.html, * Dan Backman, Svenska Dagbladet, 2005-05-13, http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/musik/artikel_30890.svd, * John Kelman, all about jazz, 2005-12-30, http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=20223, * Joe Montague, Jazz Review.com, 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20090922101226/http://www.jazzreview.com/article/review-5665.html, {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindstrom, Jeanette 1971 births Living people 21st-century Swedish singers 21st-century Swedish women singers People from Östersund