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Lina Nyberg

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers and contemporary composers. For more than 20 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mainly in Scandinavia, but also in many other parts of the world.
Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home, both parents being artists/illustrators. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1993 she released her first CD Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic.

As a solo artist she has been releasing 23 albums and tours the world with her band since 15 years – Lina Nyberg Band: Cecilia Persson piano, David Stackenäs guitar, Josef Kallerdahl bass, Peter Danemo drums.

She has received awards as Lars Gullin prize, She was honored with the Swedish Royal Academy of music Jazz prize 2016, and was selected to be a member in 2020.

As a composer she has writing works on commission from big bands, string quartets other chamber settings and symphony orchestras. She is the composer of the Swedish Radio music channel P2 signature.
One of her most recent work is the album trilogy with works for big band – Sirenades 2014, for stringquartet – Aerials 2016 and for symphony orchestra – Terrestrial 2017
The trilogy confirmed her as one of the most exciting composers in Scandinavia right now connecting
the rhythmic and harmonic parts of her European jazz background with a contemporary classical language.

In 2020 the album “the Clouds” was released with her new all star constellation, Lina Nyberg Tentet. In 2021 she reconnected with the quintet for the album Anniverse (Hoob records) and 2022 her collaboration and commissioned work with Bohuslän big band "the World's a Stage" marks her 30th anniversary as a recording artist.

Awards

Swedish Jazz Grammy 1995 Swedish Jazzmusician of the year 2011 (Swedish Radio), Lars Gullin Award 2014, Album of the year (Gyllene skivan) 2017, Jan Johansson Award 2021, among others.

Gear

Shure Beta 58

Lina Nyberg: Anniverse

Read "Anniverse" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 29, 2022

Vocalist Lina Nyberg takes us through a calendar year with her album Anniverse. Being Swedish, we're talking northern hemisphere when she sings of January and following footsteps in the snow with the sun only barely appearing on the horizon. Dark but not dispirited she intones rising hopes. This recording began with Nyberg's call to her long time collaborators pianist Cecilia Persson, guitarist David Stackenäs, bassist Josef Kallerdahl, and drummer Peter Danemo to send her ten words they associated with a ...

Album Review

Jazzagenturen: The Stockholm Corona Sessions Volume Two

Read "The Stockholm Corona Sessions Volume Two" reviewed by Jim Worsley

by Jim Worsley
September 18, 2020

The Swedish jazz collective Jazzagenturen, founded by Pontus de Wolfe, reached deep into their collective souls and stood up to the downsides of the Covid-19 coronavirus early on. This large ensemble entered a studio on April 2nd. Twelve hours later they emerged having recorded fifty songs. The Stockholm Corona Sessions (Bra Skivor, 2020) are being released in five volumes, spread out through 2020. Gathering worldwide attention due to being both an unprecedented project and superb multi-ranged jazz recordings, Jazzagenturen was ...

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Lina Nyberg: The Clouds

Read "The Clouds" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 15, 2020

In a career spanning almost three decades--her first release, Close (Prophone), with Esbjörn Svensson, dates from 1993-- vocalist, composer and arranger Lina Nyberg has worked with many of the finest musicians in the Swedish jazz scene to create a truly formidable body of work. Nineteen albums later, her creativity shows no signs of abating. In fact, with The Clouds, a project featuring a tentet of first-rank colleagues, Nyberg is poised to reinforce her place at the vanguard of chance-taking European ...

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Lina Nyberg: Terrestrial

Read "Terrestrial" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
July 17, 2018

Idiosyncratic to the core, ambitious beyond measure, and knowing no idiomatic limitations, since the early 1990s Swedish vocalist and composer Lina Nyberg has captivated and surprised listeners with the astonishing range of her unique artistic vision. She has performed with a “who's who" list of Swedish musicians, from iconic figures like Esbjörn Svensson and Palle Danielsson to out-leaning players like Mattias Ståhl, Magnus Broo, and Torbjörn Zetterberg. Her repertoire and arrangements are consistently imaginative and courageous, and her regular band--pianist ...

Album Review

Lina Nyberg: Aerials

Read "Aerials" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 20, 2016

There are very few musicians who dare to expand their artistic vision with every new project as Swedish vocalist-songwriter-composer Lina Nyber. Aerials, is the her second installment in a trilogy of albums that offers her unique perspective about the world, the elements and the music itself. Nyberg began the trilogy with the double album The Sirenades (Hoob, 2014), that featured her songs composed for her quintet and the Norrbotten Big Band, sketching poetic images of cyber-seas, monsters and waves. On ...

Extended Analysis

Lina Nyberg: The Sirenades

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 2, 2014

Swedish vocalist Lina Nyberg's new album The Sirenades, her 16th since her debut twenty years ago, is her most ambitious project to date. The title word she invented derives from three words--Sirens, the ancient Greek ones who deceive you and make you forget your mission; Sirens, the long warning horns at war time and Serenade, a song to perform for someone you love--reveals much about Nyberg's innovative and highly personal art. It is playful and whimsical but also thoughtful and ...

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Lina Nyberg: Palaver

Read "Palaver" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 29, 2012

Few artists can evoke poetic musical images of such strong and diverse personae as Brazilian singer, composer and political activist Caetano Veloso, Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, American author Paul Auster, American innovative architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Persian Sufi poet Jelâluddîn Rumi on a single album. Few could manage to wrap these fascinating characters with an engaging, left-of-center musical outfit. But Swedish singer/composer Lina Nyberg is indeed a unique artist. ...

Jazz Journal about Anniverse 2022: “If this is epitomised by the radical treatment of April In Paris, which includes electronic “noises off” and an “art song” treatment of the lyric, it is equally evident in the considered touches of distilled tonal colour and fresh intervallic dynamics which complement Nyberg’s musings, not so much on seasonal variations of time and the weather, but rather, love and longing, fulfilment and loss. A singular and compelling venture, epitomised by the bittersweet Julian.”