Karin Inde

Last christmas she moved from Göteborg to Stockholm, with new recordings in her luggage. You can listen to some tunes here. Her next album “Immune” will be born in spring. ************************************************************ **** Karin played on her synth and sang the ballads in “POP Hits ‘84 to ‘89” until one day when her classical piano teacher made clear he was to give away her classes to his colleague. Mr Melker Steen was busy with something very suspicious. He was playing the piano by chords (schools are often some years after current trends…). He introduced her to jazz music, recorded “greatest hits-tapes” for her to imitate and learn by heart. Consequently, she became the vocalist in Melkers Svänggäng (Swinging gang) when she was 13. A small big band of 12 young musicians, playing almost every weekend for five years at parties and other occasions with an immense repertoire of 150 tunes. ************************************************************ **** At the age of 15, Karin Inde was - without exaggeration - a world famous jazzsinger in the entire city of Karlstad. Touring at jazz clubs in the region of Värmland, with Swedish jazz stars such as Berndt Egerblahd, Rune Carlsson, Lars Sjösten and Johnny Olsson. ************************************************************ **** You can call Karin Inde a real broiler of music education. During the years at university she recorded her first CD. Karin and the pianist Stefan Wingefors wrote 14 modern jazz ditties in Swedish. On the front cover of “När som helst” (=Whenever) you can also see Stefan’s old Volvo 240.After graduation she had to search quite a while to recover the fun in and the love for music. ************************************************************ **** Her real debut album released in 2000. “Short Walk” includes 14 songs composed by Karin and except her own lyrics you find several love poems written in the 17th century by The Sixth Dalai Lama living in Tibet. (The 14th Dalai Lama is the one who works today). The poems she found in a book shop in Dharamsala, North India, where many exile-Tibetans live since China’s occupation in the fifties. “Children of Tibet”, the first song on the album, tells about the children, leaving their parents, risking their lives when walking over the mountains of Himalaya. That song is a contribution to the struggle for a free Tibet.Karin invited several musicians to “Short Walk”. Henrik Cederblom produced, recorded and played the guitars. At studio Bunkern, where most of the jazz musicians in Göteborg hangs around. When you need a saxophone quartet it is just to knock on some doors.. “Short Walk” gained attention and some nice reviews in Swedish media at the time of its release. ************************************************************ **** The last years Karin Inde has (besides giving birth to two girls) worked on a very dear project – Art Inject. The ground idea is to find an alternative to regular school concerts, where students often are forced to their lecture halls by exhausted teachers. Read more at www.gac.se/artinject.Art Inject visits classrooms, job meetings and conferences, all of a sudden interrupting for one song and then they’re gone. “Thank you for listening. Have a nice day.” Music is used as a surprise attack, to stimulate and at the same time cool down the senses and heart. These “pop-ins” are often combinated with regular concerts. ************************************************************ *** She also works as project manager for the mobile festival "Perfect Harmony" (www.perfectharmony.se) and she is a vocal teacher at the new music school Musikania in Nacka, Stockholm. ************************************************************ ***Her next album “Immune” is recorded at studio Epidemin in Göteborg by Henrik Cederblom (who plays some guitar as well!).