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Thomas Ahlstrand

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About Me

I am a Warner/Chappell signed songwriter and have been for about 14 years now. But before I started to write songs I used to be a pretty good keyboard player on the road with different Swedish artists such as Grammy Award winner Åsa Jinder, Talisman, Dag Finn and Sofia Källgren amongst others.
With time, I got more and more into songwriting and production and this got to be the main interest in my musical career.
After signing to Warner/Chappell Music I build my first studio where I recorded artists like Emilia, Lutricia McNeal, Magnus Karlsson, Lasse Berghagen, Jill Jonsson, Shirley Clamp and many more. I have also written/co-written music for the TV series Jack and Jill, American Idol, Fame factory (Sweden) amongst other. One song also ended up on a Playstation 2 game.
The songs and productions I have been involved in making so far have resulted in top chart hits and sales of over 5 millions, gold and platinum albums from around the globe and also, in the year of 2000, awarded with a Grammy in Hong Kong for the song “I see you everywhere”.
Today I am the CEO of 11th Hour Songs AB, a limited Publishing/Production company part of “All Global Media” located just outside Stockholm/Sweden.
Through music I met my beautiful and understanding wife, Eva (who is on the top of the my friends list) and together we have three wonderful kids.
Thomas has co-written songs with:
Eric Bazilian (Robbie Williams, Prince, Ricky Martin, Lee Anne Rimes ...)
Randy Goodrum (Toto, Chicago, Ray Charles, Michael McDonald, Kenny Rogers ...)
Jeff Cohen (Jack and Jill, Josh Groban, Panchos Lament)
Dennis Morgan (Faith Hill, Aretha Franklin, George Michael, Rod Stewart ...)
John McLaughlin (Busted, Westlife, 911, Cliff Richard ...)
Karen Taylor Good (Al Jarreau ...)
Douglas Pashley (Vanessa Williams ...

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Music:

I grew up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Procol Harum but in the late '70:s TOTO took over and short after Chicago, Earth Wind and Fire and of course David Foster who I still admire very much.
I studied Classical Piano but played in hard rock bands and jazz bands. Today I like all styles incl. Gospel and Soul plus all that I grew up with. As long as the melody and feel is there.

Movies:

Alien, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Rat Race, Lord of the rings, Platoon

Books:

Don't read much, but next book will be Richard Branson "The Virgin King".

Heroes:

Roy Colegate, David Foster, TOTO, Richard Branson, Neil Armstrong and all other Astro-/Cosmonauts (I wanna be out there too),