Henrik Linder

Henrik Linder (born March 16, 1985) is a Swedish musician and the bass player of the Stockholm-based band Dirty Loops. Linder attended the Royal College of Music where he collaborated with vocalist and pianist Jonah Nilsson along with drummer Aron Mellergårdh. Together, the three of them formed Dirty Loops. Since forming the group, Linder has appeared on the band's debut album Loopified and has toured with artists such as David Foster and Maroon 5.

Early life Linder was born in Sweden and started playing piano at age 4.

Later on, at 13 years old, Linder switched to bass guitar. One of his first childhood bass idols was Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers after listening to the band's song "Aeroplane" from the album One Hot Minute. In addition, Linder later discovered groups like The Brecker Brothers and Tribal Tech, featuring Gary Willis on bass. Gary Willis would become one of his greatest influences. Linder also started taking lessons with a local Swedish bass player, Robert Sundin. At age 16, Linder was already a busy Stockholm session musician and played with many different groups.

Linder attended secondary school at Södra Latin, and afterwards, studied jazz at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. While studying, he collaborated with his childhood friend and drummer Aron Mellergårdh. As classmates at the Royal Academy of Music, they would both practice and jam together as much as possible. Later on, Mellergårdh and Linder started working with another one of their classmates and childhood friends, pianist and vocalist Jonah Nilsson. Their collaboration eventually led to the creation of Dirty Loops in 2008.

Career Henrik Linder on stage with Dirty Loops in Los Angeles in April 2024. After a number of frequent jam sessions, Linder, Mellergårdh, and Nilsson started rearranging and reharmonizing modern pop songs. In 2010, Dirty Loops uploaded their cover of Lady Gaga's song, “Just Dance”, which received over 100,000 YouTube views and 10,000 Facebook shares in the first two months of its release. In 2021, their video has over 19 million views and counting.

With the continuation of producing videos, many different folks in the industry noticed Dirty Loops’ music. Working in Los Angeles, producer/ songwriter Andreas Carlson signed the band to a management deal. In addition, producer and songwriter David Foster signed Dirty Loops to Verve Records and brought them on his 2012 tour of Asia.

In February 2015, Dirty Loops joined Maroon 5 for the tour of their album V. Dirty Loops made their first appearance in Australia and performed in different parts of Asia throughout the tour.

Playing technique and style

Linder is known for using a variety of techniques in his playing. Being in a trio without a guitar player, he uses a variety of chords and inversions to create new harmonic concepts that work with the piano parts and fill in chordal space.

Linder uses TC electronic pedals.