Origin Pitea, Sweden Website www.nicolaidunger.com | Name Nicolai Dunger | |
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Birth name Claus Wilhelm Nicolai Dunger Role Singer · nicolaidunger.com Albums Cornelis vs Riedel, Upstate Gospel, Play Nominations Grammis Award for Folk/Singer-songwriter of the Year Similar People Sarah Riedel, Georg Riedel, Goran Kajfes, Jonas Kullhammar, Matti Bye Profiles | ||
Music director The Spade, Headway | ||
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Nicolai Dunger (born February 4, 1968) is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released twelve EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg. He also records under the alias A Taste of Ra. He uses his full real name of Claus Wilhelm Nicolai Dunger for composing credits but this has caused confusion with some tracks being credited to two separate "composers" Claus Wilhelm and Nicolai Dunger.
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- Nicolai dunger performing hundred song for you
- Biography
- Discography
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Nicolai dunger performing hundred song for you
Biography
A Swedish-born singer who falls under blues, folk, jazz, soul music. A former association football player, Nicolai was signed by the Telegram label of Warner records, releasing two albums that did not sell enough copies to enable him to give up his part-time job as a gardener.
A meeting with Ebbot Lundberg of the Swedish band The Soundtrack of Our Lives led to two further albums, a tour with Emilíana Torrini and the use of one of his songs in an advertisement for an oil company. This small influx of cash enabled the production of a trio of vinyl albums with the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio.
This steady production of somewhat experimental acoustic music attracted the attention of Americana luminaries Will Oldham and Jonathan Donahue, and a contract with the Dolores Recordings branch of Virgin Records followed. The first album on this label, Soul Rush, with backing from the Esbjörn Svensson trio, attracted some limited attention in 2001, but the next album, 2002's Tranquil Isolation, achieved widespread attention, especially thanks to its input from Will Oldham.
A third album, Here's My Song, You Can Have It, followed in 2004. He has featured on both Nina Persson's second "A Camp" record, and on Maia Hirasawa's album GBGVSSTHLM.
Discography
Trivia
Nicolai's song "Something in the Way" was featured in a Volvo commercial in the U.S. in July 2008
Nicolai's song "Dr Zhivago's Train" was recorded by Robert Palmer on his album "Drive"