Krister Linder is a Swedish

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musician.

Career

Krister Linder started his music career in 1987 as the vocalist of the Swedish band Grace. Their single "Ingen kan älska som vi" became a hit-single in Sweden, and was taken from the soundtrack to the

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with

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. Under the name Chris Lancelot, he was the

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of the Swedish band

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from 1990 to 1994. The duo released three albums, and their debut single, ''

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'', was later recorded by

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. Dive also recorded the songs ''The Ocean'' and ''A Room Full of Flowers,'' together with singer

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. Linder went on to compose and produce experimental electronic music until he released his first solo album as a vocalist, '' Songs from the Silent Years'' in 2006. He was also the lead vocalist in the Swedish heavy metal band Enter the Hunt, who released the album, ''For Life. 'Til Death. To Hell. With Love,'' which was produced by

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. Other musical efforts include

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for

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, short movies and feature films. His score in the

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'' Gitmo: The New Rules of War'' (directed by

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and

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) won the first prize in the category Music For TV at the

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in 2006. In November 2008, he won first prize in the category Best Music at the Stockholm International Film Festival for his score to the feature film '' Downloading Nancy'' (directed by

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). In 2009, he won the Jameson Film Music Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival for the score to the animated feature film Metropia (directed by

). That same year, he did co-vocals on the song "Departer" on the album

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. He also did vocals for Omnimotion's remix of the song Tierra Azul, originally by Vibrasphere. He made the music for the 2013 documentary feature, '' While No One Is Watching''. He composed an exclusive track used for the 2016 Chanel N°5 perfume television advertisement. In 2019 Linder released his second solo album as vocalist, ''Across the never''. Linder continued to write the music for Tarik Salehs movies,

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and

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Solo albums

*''Alaskanlab Sweden 1995'', 1995 (as Tupilaq) *''Holtkötter'', 1996 (as Yeti) *''First Wave'', 2000 (as Solaroid) *''Songs from the Silent Years'', 2006 *''Metropia'', 2009 *''The Nile Hilton Incident'', 2017 *''Across the never'', 2019 *''Boy from Heaven'', 2023

References

External links

Official websiteOfficial Myspace pageOfficial blogOfficial Enter the Hunt website
Swedish electronic musicians Swedish heavy metal singers Swedish songwriters Living people 1970 births Swedish film score composers Swedish male film score composers 21st-century Swedish singers 21st-century Swedish male singers Musicians from Stockholm {{music-producer-stub