Lina Nyberg - Brasilien (2000) 320kbps

Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home. She discovered jazz at age 14 and at 18 years of age Lina began singing with Swedish jazz stars such as Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Fredrik Norén Band, and others. In 1990 Lina built her own first constellation “Lina Nyberg Kvintett” consisting of Per “Texas” Johansson, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Mikel Ulfberg. In 1993 her first CD was released CLOSE (Prophone records). A duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a very fruitful cooperation with the producer and owner of Prophone, Erland Boëthius.

Lina and her quintet received the prestigious Swedish Grammis award for her CD “when the smile shines through” in 1995. “OPEN” released in 1998 and recorded with bassist Palle Danielsson and pianist Anders Persson, among others, was nominated for a Swedish Grammis and received rave reviews.

Over the years Lina Nyberg has collaborated with various jazz musicians such as John Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin and Rigmor Gustafsson. She has toured in Scandinavia, parts of Europe, Vietnam, Canada and Brazil. A couple of times Lina also has toured Japan with Yasuhito Moris Scandinavian Connection.

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For more than 15 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mostly in Scandinavia, but also in other parts of the world. Her main constellation right now is Lina Nyberg Band with Cecilia Persson, piano, David Stackenäs, guitar,Josef Kallerdahl, bass and Peter Danemo, drums. She´s the founder and an active part of the network IMPRA that work for equality in music for women and men and she has become a frequent debater in question concerning Music and Musicians position in society.

Lina Nyberg - Vocals, Guitar
Staffan Svensson - Trumpet
Frederick Ljungkvist - clarinet, soprano saxophone
Anders Jormin - Bass
Audun Kleive - Drums, Percussion