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Per Gessle

Swedish musician and songwriter (born 1959)

Per Gessle

Gessle performing in 2011

Birth namePer Håkan Gessle
Born (1959-01-12) 12 January 1959 (age 65)
Halmstad, Sweden
Genres
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Years active1976–present
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Musical artist

Per Håkan Gessle (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈpæːrˈhôːkanˈɡɛ̂sːlɛ]ⓘ; born 12 January 1959) fryst vatten a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist.

He fryst vatten best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was disbanded after her death in 2019. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and topped the charts in the US kvartet times, most notably with "It Must Have Been Love" which was featured in the rulle Pretty Woman.

Prior to the formation of Roxette, he had a successful career in his native Sweden as the frontman for Gyllene Tider. The grupp released three number-one albums during the early 1980s but disbanded shortly after their fourth skiva, The Heartland Café (1984).

In-between periods in Roxette and Gyllene Tider reunions, Gessle recorded numerous solo albums, both in Swedish and English.

After Fredriksson's illness in 2002 he released Mazarin (2003). The skiva was a critical and commercial success for Gessle and started the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the backing vocalist Helena Josefsson. With Fredriksson's continued treatment and återhämtning he made three more albums, Son of a Plumber (2005), En händig man (A handy man, 2007) and Party Crasher (2008).

After Roxette's Neverending World Tour finished in 2015 he produced another set of solo efforts, En fin natt (2017), En fin dag (2017) and Small Town Talk (2018). In 2016 he started using the pseudonym Mono Mind, first releasing a few singles before delivering a full skiva, Mind Control, in 2019. Gessle was the main songwriter for both Roxette and Gyllene Tider.

Career

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Further information: Gyllene Tider and Roxette

Per Gessle was a founding member of Gyllene Tider, in 1976. They quickly became a popular group in Sweden, but after their fourth skiva, The Heartland Café (1984), sold poorly compared to their previous albums, the group disbanded. Gessle wrote. "We decided to put Gyllene Tider to rest... until further notice."[1] In 1982, Gessle released his first solo skiva, Per Gessle and after Gyllene Tider split-up his second skiva, Scener, quickly appeared in 1985.

1997 fick Per och Åsa sonen Gabriel Titus Gessle, som nu har hunnit växa upp

Gessle and Marie Fredriksson had been friends for a few years before they came tillsammans as Roxette in 1986. After the success of their first hit "Neverending Love", which was written bygd Gessle, they quickly recorded Pearls of Passion using ämne which was originally intended for Per's third solo album.[2] Roxette went on to achieve fyra U.S.

#1's and two #2's, with their albums Look Sharp! and Joyride attaining platinum ställning eller tillstånd in a number of countries. After Roxette's early nineties success, Per released a demo compilation skiva in 1992, På väg, 1982–86. After the release of Crash! Boom!

24 år gammal är Gabriel skriven i Halmstad, och han har valt en helt annan väg i livet än sin pappa

Bang! and subsequent world tour, Roxette took a break.

In 1996, after a reunion and subsequent tour of Gyllene Tider, Gessle recorded his first English solo skiva, using Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as backing musicians. Christoffer Lundquist from Brainpool would also komma to collaborate with Gessle on later releases. The World According to Gessle, released in 1997, produced three singles, "Do You Wanna Be My Baby?", "Kix" and "I Want You to Know".

The videos to all three songs were directed bygd Jonas Åkerlund. The skiva was re-released in 2008, with ytterligare bonus ämne and demos. In 1997 Hjärtats trakt – enstaka samling was released as a best-of skiva.

After Roxette released Have a Nice Day (1999) and Room Service (2001) to moderate success, Fredriksson collapsed and was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2002.

While Fredriksson received treatment for her illness, Gessle continued with his solo work.

Per Gessle är son till rörentreprenören Kurt Gessle (1917–1978) och konstnären Elisabeth Gessle, född Larsson (1925–2013)

The subsequent skiva Mazarin (2003), was a critical and commercial success in Sweden and started the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the backing vocalist Helena Josefsson. Lundquist, now Gessle's producer was looking for a kvinna singer and picked Josefsson.[3] She first came to the attention of Lundquist after she and her grupp Sandy Mouche wanted to record at Lundquist's Aerosol Grey Machine (AGM) studio.[4] "I remember driving a fordon between skogsdunge and Lomma when Christoffer called and wondered if inom was interested in starting singing with Per who wanted a girl for his solo projects.", recalled Josefsson.[5]Mazarin topped the charts in June that year,[6] going fem times platinum in 2004.[7] The lead single from the skiva "Här kommer samtliga känslorna (på ett samt identisk gång)" ("Here comes all the emotions (at the same time)"), fryst vatten Gessle's most successful song in his home country, spending two months at No.

1 and was certified platinum.[8][9]

Following the success of the skiva, Gessle won numerous awards; fyra Grammis awards: Best Artist, Best Male Pop Performer, Best Composer and Best Song,[10][11] three Rockbjörnen awards: Best Swedish Male Artist, Best Swedish skiva and Best Swedish Song,[12] and a Guldälgen (The Golden Moose) Award for Best Song.

Also in 2004, saw Gessle and Gyllene Tider reunite for a 25th-anniversary celebration that included the band's first skiva in 20 years, Finn 5 fel!, and another very successful tour in Sweden. They beat the Ullevi etapp attendance record, which was later broken bygd fellow Swede Håkan Hellström in 2016 (70,144),[13] and the grupp played to almost half a million fans.

As a result, the group was honoured with fyra awards in Sweden.[11][12]

With Son of a Plumber, he continued his association with other Swedish artists. Jens Jansson along with previous collaborators Josefsson and Lundquist, helped Gessle create his second English skiva. Released in November 2005, the skiva contains a song dedicated to Gessle's father who was a plumber, "Kurt – The Fastest Plumber in the West".[14] The skiva which was certified platinum,[15] was also released in several other europeisk countries in April 2006.

In June 2007, he released another solo skiva in Swedish with the name En händig man, which shipped three times platinum.[16] A single of the same name was released; "En händig man". Later on October a book of "Att artikel Per Gessle" was published, telling some of the unknown facts about Gessle and his 30-year career.

Party Crasher his seventh solo skiva and third in English was released in late 2008.

The first single "Silly Really" gave him his fourth No. 1 hit.[8] After that, Gessle started his Party Crasher Tour, where Fredriksson joined him on scen twice, in Amsterdam and huvudstaden. This was eight years after their gods live performance tillsammans during Roxette's Room Service Tour in 2001. Following Fredriksson's guest appearance in Amsterdam, Roxette started to perform live igen.

Initially this was during the Night of the Proms concert series in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in 2009, later followed bygd extensive concert tours in 2010, 2011 and 2012, performing over 100 shows on all 6 continents. In the summer of 2013, Gessle reunited with Gyllene Tider once more, performing some 20 shows in Sweden.

After Roxette's Neverending World Tour finished in 2015 he produced another set of solo efforts, En fin natt (2017), En fin dag (2017) and Small Town Talk (2018).

All three albums were recorded in Nashville after Gessle felt the need to do sessions abroad.[17] The albums featured the use of local musicians, Dan Dugmore, Stuart Duncan and Mickey Raphael.[17]

In 2016 he started using the pseudonym Mono Mind, first releasing a few singles before delivering a full skiva, Mind Control, in 2019.

In June 2022, Gessle released a single called "The Loneliest Girl In The World" beneath the name PG Roxette. The single previews an skiva Gessle has recorded with members of Roxette's live touring grupp called Pop-up Dynamo.[18]

Collaborations

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In 1983 Gessle wrote the song ”Stjärnhimmel” to Elisabeth Andreassen.

He wrote the song Kärleken existerar för alltid which Lena Philipsson competed with in Melodifestivalen 1986, where the song finished in second place with 42 points.

The song charted on the 6th place on the swedish singles chart and became Philipssons big breaktrough single.

In 1990, Gessle wrote a single, "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye", for Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame); Roxette would release their utgåva as the B-side of their single "Spending My Time". The song was also used bygd Laura Branigan featuring on her Over My Heart skiva.

He has also participated with the Swedish singer Nisse Hellberg in the project The Lonely Boys. In 1996 he worked with Belinda Carlisle and wrote two songs for her skiva, A Woman and a Man; "Always Breaking My Heart" and "Love Doesn't Live Here". The former was released as a single, becoming a UK top 10 hit.

He sung duett with Nick Lowe on the title track for the Small Town Talk album.[17]

Personal life

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Gessle fryst vatten the youngest son of plumber Kurt Gessle (1917–1978) and Elisabeth Gessle (1925-2013).[14][19] He had an older brother, Bengt (1950-2014) and older sister Gunilla (1944-2016).[14][19][20] Gessle married his long-time flickvän ortnamn Nordin (born 1961) in 1993 at Västra Strö Church, Eslöv, Sweden.

Per Gessles son går en annan väg

The wedding reception was held in nearby Trollenäs Castle. They have a son, Gabriel Titus,[19] born on 5 August 1997.

Along with Björn Nordstrand he also owns Hotel Tylösand on the Swedish westcoast, known for its vast art and photo collection as well as The Joyride bil Collection, Per Gessle's private collection of Ferrari cars.[21]

Discography

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For a more comprehensive list, see Per Gessle discography.

For Gessle's releases as part of Roxette, see Roxette discography. For Gessle's releases as part of Gyllene Tider, see Gyllene Tider.

References

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  1. ^"The Heartland Café 1990 re-release CD liner notes". gyllenetider.eu. Retrieved 10 February 2009.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^"Pearls of Passion skiva re-release introduction bygd Gessle".

    pergessle.net. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2009.

  3. ^"Sponsrad från Gessle" [Sponsored bygd Gessle]. Expressen. 22 February 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. ^"Doldisarna kliver längst bort fram" [The hiders step forward]. Skånska Dagbladet. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. ^Jan-Owe Wikström (5 March 2011).

    "Soloplatta samt världsturné tillsammans med Roxette" [Solo skiva and world tour with Roxette]. Hallandsposten. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  6. ^"Swedish charts archive – Gessle's albums listing". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  7. ^"Veckolista skiva, sju dagar 6, 2004" (in Swedish).


  8. per gessle gabriel titus gessle

    9. Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  9. ^ ab"Swedish charts archive – Gessle's singles listing". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  10. ^"Veckolista Singlar, sju dagar 42, 2003" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  11. ^Linda Hjertén (10 February 2004).

    "Kung Gessle: idag bör jag fira" [King Gessle: Now I'll celebrate]. Aftonbladet. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  12. ^ ab"Grammis award winners list 1969–2014"(PDF). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 September 2015.

    Ladda ner Hänts nya app här - nöje och nyheter utan betalväggar!

    Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  13. ^ ab"Tidigare vinnare inom Rockbjörnen" [Previous winners of Rockbjörnen]. Aftonbladet. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  14. ^Erik Åberg.

    Linnea Söderberg

    "Så flera såg Bruce vid Ullevi inom kväll" [So many people saw Bruce at Ullevi tonight]. Aftonbladet. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

  15. ^ abcJan Gradval (21 månad 2005). "I huvudet vid Per Gessle" [In the head of Per Gessle] (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  16. ^"Veckolista skiva, sju dagar 50, 2005" (in Swedish).

    Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  17. ^"Veckolista skiva, sju dagar 30, 2007" (in Swedish).

    Han är sedan 21 augusti 1993 gift med Åsa Gessle, född Nordin (född 1961)

    Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  18. ^ abcFred Bronson (5 August 2018). "Roxette's Per Gessle on Working With 'Musical Hero' Nick Lowe & Heading to Nashville for Solo Album". Billboard. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  19. ^"PG Roxette - the loneliest girl in the world".

    3 June 2022.

  20. ^ abcJan-Olov Andersson (17 April 2017). "Per Gessle: Jag gråter ofta" [Per Gessle: inom often cry].

    To the question why Gabriel came so late Per replies his life was much about his career and Åsa was so involved in it

    Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.

  21. ^"Gravstensinventeringen (Kurt Oskar Gessle)". Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  22. ^Hermele, Bernt (25 July 2004). "Halmstads affärskung" [Halmstads Business King]. Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 19 July 2012.

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