Pernilla Andersson – Biography – English
2007, Present and Future
Pernillas next album Baby Blue was released in 2007, and apart from being the opening act for Bryan Ferry, she also produced another album with Svante Thuresson, Vänner and made a EP, The Big Cover-up on which she recorded songs from various rockbands such as The Hellacopters, The Hives and Backyard Babies.
She begun to write songs in Swedish 2008 and a few months later the album Gör dig till Hund with the hit song Johnny Cash & Nina P was released. Pernilla spent most of 2008 and 2009 on the road touring, but she also found the time to start a new recordlabel ”Sheriff Records” with Lars Nylin and Niclas Green. Other artists released on Sheriff Records is Titiyo and Mean Streets.
During 2009 Pernilla went back to writing in english again, this time in a project called Ashbury Apples, which is a collaboration between Pernilla and guitarist Fredrik Rönnqvist. Pernilla have always produced her own albums, but on Ashbury Apples she takes it one step further and has mixed the entire album herself. ”I did it at home, in my studio, the stringsection was recorded in my livingroom”, she says.
When the album was completed Pernilla, who in her spare-time is a passionated fisherman, decided she wanted to do something to help the sea-environment in the Baltic Sea. (Pernilla lives on a little Island in the Stockholm archepelago and feels strongly about the environment there). She met up with Sportfiskarna and decided to give away some of the profit from Ashbury Apples to a project called Don’t mess with our water. During the fall Pernilla will do a few exclusive concerts and the next album in Swedish is scheduled in May 2010.
Back in the days
Pernilla Andersson was born in the mid 70’s in what you might say was a music-friendly environment. Both her parents, musicians at the time were touring a lot so for Pernilla, cars, buses and planes were the natural way of living. She began playing the piano at 5, making up her own songs by the time she was 8, and she was always encouraged by her parents to go her own way.
”There was a time in my life when Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Cannonball Adderley and Billie Holiday just made me angry ” Pernilla says. ”Mum went on and on about Carmen McRae, Ray Charles and Lester Young, while dad prompted on playing records with Chet Baker, Miles Davis & Frank Sinatra, so pop and rock music became my way out of the jazzenvironment that was brought upon me and my brother. Even today I always listen to AC/DC or Deep Purple when getting focused on something, like a concert.
At 17 she applied to The Ballet Academy of Gothenburg and got accepted, much to her own surprise. ”I never really had it in me to become a chorus-dancer, it was to much work and to little attention on me as a person” she smiles when the subject comes up.”I dropped out after 6 months, depressed and really thin, the only good thing about it was that I wrote some good songs on my piano in my miserably ugly apartment.”
At 19 She went to New York, ”To scope the town out”, she laughs. ”We went to jazz-clubs and small pubs. Anywhere you could go and listen to live jazzmusic we went. I bought a lot of records and got totally into jazz again”. But writing her own music, it had more of a popfeeling to it. ”I love songwriters as Lennon/McCartney, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Bob Dylan & Judee Sill, they have all influenced me a lot”.
When turning 23, Pernilla got signed to EMI and begun to work on her debut album My Journey She wrote the songs, arranged and co-produced it. My Journey were loved by the critics and the reviews were great. Pernilla made yet another album on EMI, the more jazzoriented All Smiles with Beata Söderberg and Joakim Milder.
She studied at the Royal Music College of Stockholm, which she says ”bored me to death after one year”, then took a year off and travelled around India, made another trip to New York and finally went to Spain to write new songs. She decided to form her own publishing-company Charlie Bullet. Pernilla contracted Swedish Jazzsinger Svante Thuresson and together they wrote the music for his upcoming album Nya Kickar which was nominated for a Swedish Grammy 2002. She also got to produce the album and it turned out to be the first time a woman produced a male artist at a Swedish major-company (EMI/Capitol).
”I love being a producer for other artists, it keeps you sane and it is only healthy to focus on someone else than yourself for a while”, she shrugs. ”God knows you have a lot of time to feed your ego in this business.”
In September 2004, Pernilla released Cradlehouse The album was released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Taiwan and Spain. She opened for Katie Melua on a tour, and went to Japan to play at the Swedish Worldexibition in Aichi and Tokyo with the Swedish stringensemble Fleshquartet
Pernilla Andersson – Biography – English
2007, Present and Future
Pernillas next album Baby Blue was released in 2007, and apart from being the opening act for Bryan Ferry, she also produced another album with Svante Thuresson, Vänner and made a EP, The Big Cover-up on which she recorded songs from various rockbands such as The Hellacopters, The Hives and Backyard Babies.
She begun to write songs in Swedish 2008 and a few months later the album Gör dig till Hund with the hit song Johnny Cash & Nina P was released. Pernilla spent most of 2008 and 2009 on the road touring, but she also found the time to start a new recordlabel ”Sheriff Records” with Lars Nylin and Niclas Green. Other artists released on Sheriff Records is Titiyo and Mean Streets.
During 2009 Pernilla went back to writing in english again, this time in a project called Ashbury Apples, which is a collaboration between Pernilla and guitarist Fredrik Rönnqvist. Pernilla have always produced her own albums, but on Ashbury Apples she takes it one step further and has mixed the entire album herself. ”I did it at home, in my studio, the stringsection was recorded in my livingroom”, she says.
When the album was completed Pernilla, who in her spare-time is a passionated fisherman, decided she wanted to do something to help the sea-environment in the Baltic Sea. (Pernilla lives on a little Island in the Stockholm archepelago and feels strongly about the environment there). She met up with Sportfiskarna and decided to give away some of the profit from Ashbury Apples to a project called Don’t mess with our water. During the fall Pernilla will do a few exclusive concerts and the next album in Swedish is scheduled in May 2010.
Back in the days
Pernilla Andersson was born in the mid 70’s in what you might say was a music-friendly environment. Both her parents, musicians at the time were touring a lot so for Pernilla, cars, buses and planes were the natural way of living. She began playing the piano at 5, making up her own songs by the time she was 8, and she was always encouraged by her parents to go her own way.
”There was a time in my life when Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Cannonball Adderley and Billie Holiday just made me angry ” Pernilla says. ”Mum went on and on about Carmen McRae, Ray Charles and Lester Young, while dad prompted on playing records with Chet Baker, Miles Davis & Frank Sinatra, so pop and rock music became my way out of the jazzenvironment that was brought upon me and my brother. Even today I always listen to AC/DC or Deep Purple when getting focused on something, like a concert.
At 17 she applied to The Ballet Academy of Gothenburg and got accepted, much to her own surprise. ”I never really had it in me to become a chorus-dancer, it was to much work and to little attention on me as a person” she smiles when the subject comes up.”I dropped out after 6 months, depressed and really thin, the only good thing about it was that I wrote some good songs on my piano in my miserably ugly apartment.”
At 19 She went to New York, ”To scope the town out”, she laughs. ”We went to jazz-clubs and small pubs. Anywhere you could go and listen to live jazzmusic we went. I bought a lot of records and got totally into jazz again”. But writing her own music, it had more of a popfeeling to it. ”I love songwriters as Lennon/McCartney, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Bob Dylan & Judee Sill, they have all influenced me a lot”.
When turning 23, Pernilla got signed to EMI and begun to work on her debut album My Journey She wrote the songs, arranged and co-produced it. My Journey were loved by the critics and the reviews were great. Pernilla made yet another album on EMI, the more jazzoriented All Smiles with Beata Söderberg and Joakim Milder.
She studied at the Royal Music College of Stockholm, which she says ”bored me to death after one year”, then took a year off and travelled around India, made another trip to New York and finally went to Spain to write new songs. She decided to form her own publishing-company Charlie Bullet. Pernilla contracted Swedish Jazzsinger Svante Thuresson and together they wrote the music for his upcoming album Nya Kickar which was nominated for a Swedish Grammy 2002. She also got to produce the album and it turned out to be the first time a woman produced a male artist at a Swedish major-company (EMI/Capitol).
”I love being a producer for other artists, it keeps you sane and it is only healthy to focus on someone else than yourself for a while”, she shrugs. ”God knows you have a lot of time to feed your ego in this business.”
In September 2004, Pernilla released Cradlehouse The album was released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Taiwan and Spain. She opened for Katie Melua on a tour, and went to Japan to play at the Swedish Worldexibition in Aichi and Tokyo with the Swedish stringensemble Fleshquartet