Linnea Matilda Olsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known and acclaimed as a cellist. A former member of the band , she released her first album, ''Ah!'', in 2012,
followed by a second album ''Breaking and Shaking'' in 2014.
Together with
Jennie Abrahamson, she was an
opening act
An opening act, also known as a warm-up act, support act, supporting act or opener, is an entertainment act (musical, comedic, or otherwise), that performs at a concert before the featured act, or "headliner". Rarely, an opening act may perform ...
Jennie + Linnea and
background singer
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...
and tour cellist on
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career wit ...
's ''
Back to Front''-''
So'' tour from 2012 to the end of 2014. Both thus replaced the originally scheduled
Ane Brun
Ane Brun (; born Ane Brunvoll on 10 March 1976) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Sami people, Sami origin who sings primarily in English. Since 2003, she has released eleven studio albums, six live albums, five compilations, o ...
with her band as support act, which would have also included Linnea Olsson,
and Linnea Olsson replaced Ane Brun as background singer.
She was the singer for the 2019
rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular r ...
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action
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* Action (philosophy), something which is done by a person
* Action principles the heart of fundamental physics
* Action (narrative), a literary mode
* Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
* Action game, a genre of video gam ...
video game ''
Sayonara Wild Hearts'',
with music composed by
Daniel Olsén and
Jonathan Eng.
Discography
Albums
*2012: ''Ah!'' (Götterfunk Produktion)
*2014: ''Breaking and Shaking'' (Götterfunk Produktions, Sony)
*2017: ''For Show'' (Götterfunk Produktions)
*2019: ''Sayonara Wild Hearts'' (Simogo AB)
*2024: ''Lorelei and the Laser Eyes'' (Simogo AB)
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century Swedish singers
Alternative rock singers
Progressive rock musicians
Avant-garde singers
Swedish women singer-songwriters
Swedish cellists
Women cellists
Musicians from Stockholm
21st-century Swedish women musicians
21st-century cellists
1983 births