Lars Bygdén

Lars Bygdén (born 1973) is a Swedish singer, song-writer and guitarist.

Biography

Lars Bygdén was born 1973 in Sundsvall, Sweden. His musical career started as a guitarist in the psychedelic bands Magic Broom and The Shades of Orange. In 1996 Bygdén formed the country-rock combo The Thousand Dollar Playboys. The group released two critically acclaimed albums and got a lot of attention in Swedish media. The band dissolved in 2003. Lars Bygdén has continued as a solo artist on the record label Massproduktion and released his first solo album Trading Happiness for Songs in 2005 which won the Swedish Manifest award for best singer-songwriter album of the year. The album included the song This Road, a duet featuring Ane Brun (also featured on Brun's album Duets). In 2006 Lars did the theme song for the Swedish TV-show Grattis Världen!, a cover of Iggy Pop's The Passenger. In the spring of 2009 Bygdén released his second solo-album, the conceptual Family Feelings. In 2011 he summoned 15 years of songwriting on the double album Songs I Wrote and in 2012 came the critically acclaimed LB from which the animated video to The Hole was both Grammy- and Manifest-nominated.

Discography

Albums with The Thousand Dollar Playboys 1999 The $1000 Playboys 2001 Stay

Solo albums

2005 Trading Happiness for Songs 2009 Family Feelings 2012 LB 2018 Dark Companion 2022 One Last Time for Love

Singles and EP's

2005 This Road EP 2005 Dream On 2006 The Passenger EP 2012 I Believe in You 2013 Maria 2013 The Hole 2018 We're Not About to Fall Apart

Compilation

2011 Songs I Wrote – double album