Divided into volumes Ledin

Tomas Ledin was born the February 25th 1952 in Rätan in Sweden. He is singer of pop Rock, type-setter, author, guitarist and producer.

Beginnings

He begins his career in 1972. This year there, its first disc Då ska jag spela (Then I will play) is a tube. Other successes follow: Blå, blå känslor (1973), which will be taken again by Björn Skifs, Knivhuggarock (1975), Festen har börjat (1976), I natt är jag DIN (1977). With beginning of the year 70, the singer is influenced by the hippie fashion and proclamation against the war of the Vietnam. He also takes part in a Swedish production of the musical comedy Godspell in 1975 and gives 140 concert in 1977 in the Folkparks Swedish.

Collaboration with Abba

Benny Andersson, of the group Abba proposes to him to join Polar Music, the label of the quartet, in 1979. The name of Divided into volumes Ledin appears throughout the career of the group.

Tomas Ledin is invited on the round of Abba in 1979 as a chorus-singer but also as a singer. Every evening of the round, he sings his composition Not Bad At All . Besides one sees it appearing in Dvd Abba Live like in the video Super Trouper .

In 1980, it takes part in the Concours Eurovision of the song with the title '' Just Nu '' (At the moment), it is a tube in Scandinavia but also with the Portugal and in Greece because there exists an english language version Right Now .

He writes a song, Never Again , which he records in duet with Agnetha Fältskog, singer of Abba, in 1982. The individual one left to France but especially was a success in Northern Europe and South America since a Spanish version Ya Nunca Mas was also produced. It composes a song, I Got Something , for the album Something going One of Frida (Ass-Frid Lyngstad), another singer of the Abba group.

In 1983 he writes off Take Good Care Your children for the first album solo in English of Agnetha Fältskog, Wrap Your Arms Around Me . He marries Marie Anderson, girl of Stig Anderson, the late manager of Abba.

Producer

The singer tries to carry out face two careers, one in Scandinavia, one in the rest of Europe. If success is undeniable in Scandinavia, it is mitigated more with the international one. The artist makes nevertheless a small round in Germany and in the Netherlands in 1982 and plays, with other international artists, having more than 60.000 people with the Olympic stadium of Berlin in 1983. Divided into volumes Ledin, exhausted, decides to bid its farewell in 1984 and launches out, successfully, in the production for the label created by its wife, Record Station. He is especially discoverer of talents and product of the singers such as Pugh Rogefeldt and Magnus Ugglas. Divided into volumes Ledin called upon the Swedish artists and organizes a concert for ANC in 1985.

Work at the office is not appropriate for the artist who composes again of the songs.

Return on the front of the scene

It leaves an English album in 1988 Down one the Pleasure Avenue . It is a failure, including in Sweden. Tomas Ledin is very disappointed but continuous to compose of the songs, in Swedish, this time. He joins again with success in 1990 thanks to a compilation then a new disc Tillfällighetrenas spel , he remains until today one of the best salesmen of albums in Sweden. In 2000, a new compilation Festen har börjat (samlingsalbum) is sold with 260.000 specimens in Sweden, which corresponds to three platinum discs in this country, it is also gold disc for the first time in Finland. In 2002, it makes the greatest round ever carried out in Sweden, it includes/understands 27 dates in Sweden, 8 dates in the remainder of Scandinavia. On the whole, 250.000 people saw her spectacle.

Divided into volumes Ledin, always records, the last album goes back Plektrum to it left in 2006 and was classified with the hit Swedish parade.

Discography

  • 1972 - Restless mind

  • 1973 - Hjärtats rytm
  • 1975 - Knivhuggarrock
  • 1976 - Natten är ung
  • 1977 - Divided into volumes Ledin
  • 1978 - Fasten seatbelts
  • 1978 - Tagen på bar gärning (live-album)
  • 1978 - VisFestivalen Västervik 1978 (samlings-/livealbum)
  • 1979 - Ut på sta' N
  • 1980 - Looking for has good time
  • 1982 - Gränslös
  • 1982 - The Human touch
  • 1983 - Captured
  • 1985 - In galen kväll (live-album)
  • 1988 - Down one the Pleasure Avenue
  • 1990 - Ett samlingsalbum
  • 1990 - Tillfällighetrenas spel
  • 1993 - Of the kan lita på mig
  • 1996 - T
  • 1997 - Sånger att älska till
  • 2000 - Vuodet 1972 - 2000
  • 2000 - Djävulen & ängeln
  • 2001 - Festen har börjat (samlingsalbum)
  • 2002 - Hela vägen
  • 2003 - I sommarnattens ljus
  • 2003 - Ledin: Just då! (DVD)
  • 2004 - Med vidöppna fönster
  • 2006 - Plektrum

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Site of fan

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