Electro Robyn
May 1, 2008 by Lansdowne Montague
My musical discoveries are quite international lately, today they take me to a country that I visited many years ago. The singer/songwriter that I came across today is Robin Carlsson known as just Robyn from Sweden. She is starting a North American tour today and will actually be in Montreal on Sunday.
Robyn signed her first record contract when she was still a teenager and her musical career has taken many twists and turns, mainly involving record labels. Robyn had some hits in the late nineties but I think that the real breakthrough that relaunched her career was when she founded her own record label in 2005.
Since then she has probably had her two biggest international hits with the songs “Who’s That Girl ” and ” With Every Heartbeat”. Her style is what I would define as intelligent electropop, in the sense that it is not just meaningless words that accompany a beat. Her words are chosen very carefully, and they blend in very nicely with the music.
Take a listen and view some videos, here, and here. For more information on Robyn see this article or her official site.
