Fredrika Stahl
Fredrika Stahl ( born October 24, 1984 in Stockholm, Sweden ) is a singer-songwriter living in France, working with stylistic elements of jazz in the pop field.
Life
Born in Sweden came Fredrika Stahl at the age of four years in France, due to her father's work. At age 12, the family returned with her back to Sweden. There she received her degree. In a kind of orientation year she went at the age of 17 years returned alone to Paris, where she has lived ever since.
Creation
Fredrika Stahl received both ballet and piano lessons and is, especially in the field of song and guitar, self-taught. After returning to Paris, she tried to compose first own songs and writing lyrics. Producer Geef brought them together with pianist Tom McClung. McClung formed a backing band for Vogue Records then in mid-2006 was the first album, A Fraction of You.
It was followed by appearances with artists such as Erick Poirier, Ichiro Onoe or Manuel Marches. Followed in 2008 steel second album, Tributaries, which was created with a four-piece backing band, which also includes the Norwegian guitarist Øyvind Nypan heard. She toured mainly in Japan and Germany and performed as a pre- band.
To a television commercial of the car manufacturers Nissan she steered her 2010 song Twinkle, twinkle little star at.
In May 2011, she toured Europe, appeared in Germany about in Freiburg, Stuttgart and Offenburg, also in London, Geneva and Istanbul.
With Dina ögon blå, a song that has an exceptionally Swedish text, she managed access also to German radio stations.
Genre
Steel works with many jazz musicians and plays himself occasionally jazz standards or jams with big bands. In the arrangements of her pop songs she builds a elements from the jazz field.
Discography
- 2006 A Fraction of You (Vogue )
- 2008 Tributaries ( Jive )
- 2010 Sweep Me Away
- 2010 bar classics vocal: greatest late hour blue songs, 2CDs (Sony classical compositions by Martinu, Poulenc, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Weill )
- 2013 Off To Dance