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Artist
Lars Winnerbäck
12+ albums
swedishsinger-songwriterpoprocksvenskt
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Lars Winnerbäck (born 19 October 1975 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He was born in Stockholm but spent his childhood in Vidingsjö, Linköping. At age 10, Winnerbäck attended a music school in Vidingsjö where he learned to play the guitar. Together with Staffan Palmberg, Tomas Öhman and Anders Johansson, they formed the punk band Snoddas, where Winnerbäck was the vocalist and guitarist. After graduating, the band split up. He moved back to Stockholm in 1996, the same year he released his solo debut album, Dans med svåra steg. The album featured a folk-pop sound, but Winnerbäck wound later move towards rock in the late 90s. More recently, he has moved towards a more acoustic style. The influence of songwriters like Carl Michael Bellman, Evert Taube, Bob Dylan, Ulf Lundell and Cornelis Vreeswijk shines through in Winnerbäck's exclusively Swedish lyrics, which deal with shallowness, prejudice in society, as well as romance, relationships and anxiety. Several of his songs depict the difference between living in medium-size Linköping and metropolitan Stockholm. His vinyl records were re-released in October 2011, many of them charting again on the Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Albums Chart. Winnerbäck has been the subject of two full-length documentary films, Solen i ögonen – En film om Lars Winnerbäck (2008, directed by Magnus Gertten) and Winnerbäck - Ett slags liv (2017, directed by Øystein Karlsen). User-contributed text is available under the
