Robyn
Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson, known as Robyn, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. Robyn first came to the music scene with her 1995 debut album Robyn Is Here which spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit singles; "Do You Know" and "Show Me Love". Her second and third studio albums My Truthand Don't Stop the Musicwere only released in her native country. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album Robynwhich earned her critical acclaim and a...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth12 June 1979
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
Production is something Ive never come to terms with.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
Let there be more darkness
The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.