annika holmberg

Annika is a singer/songwriter living in Sweden. She sings, plays the piano and the guitar and has an unstoppable need to write a lot of songs. Her style lies in substance rather than form and during the years her music has been played and produced in different genres. This Myspace page presents what she calls the Heart Project.
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NEWS!
New recordings will be released in 2011. Stay tuned!
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The most recent release featuring Annika is the Electronica/Multistyle single "My Madness" which is a cooperation with Swedish Electronica artist Sophie Rimheden and 7 other brilliant Swedish producers (The Attic, Nina Ramsby, Ebb and more). The project is a slight detour from her solo project (The Heart Project), the reason is; fun! It's a different and refreshing way to work. Sophie makes music backgrounds which Annika writes lyrics and melody to, Annika sings and then Sophie does the final production. Click hear to read more about "My Madness" Annika and Sophie have worked together before when co-writing "Can You Save Me?" which features Annika on vocals. "Can You Save Me?" was released in November 2005 on the album "Sophie Rimheden" by SRP. The single (Oct 2005) was directly played by Swedish nation radio, P3 and stayed on the playlist for 13 weeks. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!"*****************************************************************************************************
Annika was born in Sweden, but spent half of her childhood in the US. There, the ground of her musical influences was founded through the tradition of Country music, the Broadway Musicals and the classical music that instilled her first relationship with the piano. At the age of three she started her piano tuition at the home of a Czech woman in Los Angeles and already at the age of ten, songwriting had become her favorite pursuit. Torn between different cultures and environments, the lyrics in her songs became her way of expressing herself and although she was bilingual already as a child, English became her written language.
With travel in her blood, the journeys continued even when her family had settled down in Sweden. She traveled for several years, worked at an orphanage in India, sang and danced in Africa, hitch-hiked around Europe. It was then her guitar became indispensable. Many pictures and stories took form and her music emanated from many scenes. Her path has meandered between sidewalks and bar-corners to festivals and club-stages. During the past few years, Stockholm has become a hometown and there she has performed at just about every small to mid-large venue that offers her genre of music.
Up until the year of 2001 she appeared as the lead singer and songwriter in a rock-band and together, they not only became a very popular live act, but also had success in radio stations and the press all around Sweden. As a solo artist she has abandoned the rock-stage but not the glow and the focus. Now the listener is left with the pure experience of Annikas expressive voice and figurative lyrics in its simplicity. Blue photos by Paula Urbano (C)
(PS. Any advertising of any kind on this page will be removed immediately so don't waste your precious time. Save it for making more music instead. DS.)