PLACE OF BIRTH: In the countryside, southern part of Sweden.

DATE OF BIRTH: October 1975.

PERSONAL MOTTO: Don’t expect that anyone else will make your dream come true.

STYLE OF MUSIC (IN FIVE WORDS): Restless, rhythmic, electric and organic short stories.

DESCRIBE YOURSELF (IN FIVE WORDS): Restless, brittle and brave. Sweet but a little explosive.

Signed to Rabid Records, home of exquisite pop partnership The Knife, Jenny Wilson is the latest in an extraordinary line of Swedish talent to emerge in recent years. A solo artist in the truest sense, she spent a year in the studio working on her debut album, ‘Love And Youth’, laying down all of the vocals and instrumentation herself, as well as learning how to engineer and produce her work as she went along. The result is an intimate work entrenched in electronica and disco influences, but with an unmistakeable pop sensibility. Comparisons with fellow Scandinavian pop princess Annie are sure to follow. Born in Solvesborg, a picturesque village in the south of Sweden, Jenny first found her musical feet in a band called First Floor Power. Ever since then, she has been crafting songs with the sound of perpetual Swedish summer - warm, clean and picturesque. ‘Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward’ is the kind of heartfelt breath of fresh air that would probably dominate the airwaves all summer, were it to have been conceived by a more established name. Cooler than cool French label Kitsune helped Jenny reach a larger audience with the inclusion of the track on their latest ‘Maison’ compilation. With her album also about to drop in the UK, you can bet your life that many more hearts are soon to be won over by this talented disco troubadour.

 

I try to sit down for a while, talking and drinking with my band and definitely avoiding people I don’t know for at least one hour or so.

That I listened to my stubborn heart and went my own way even if it has sometimes been a scary and uneven road to walk.

At the moment I am really in love with Mr Bowie, I am revisiting him, so to speak. But I also adore Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, Nina Simone and many more.

At the moment I am writing instrumental music for a Norwegian documentary, called GIRLS. I’m also writing a script for a very special programme on Swedish public radio where you get one and a half hours to do whatever you want to do. It’s going to be broadcast in July.

The nearest future: I am going to make new costumes with my costumemaker, Pia Sandström, for my forthcoming performances this summer. And write songs for the next album. The approaching future: I am going to give birth to my second kid in September, that’s going to be great. I’m really longing for that little baby to arrive.

Yes. I think it would be fantastic working with Missy Elliott, she seems to have such a spirit and would be an inspiring person to do creative things together with.

The sweet summer breeze though the trees outside my windows.

I don’t know. But I try not to compromise in any detail that makes my music and me as a public person and artist much more distinct and immediate. I try to tell things which means, a lot to myself.

I am happy when I make something good, like writing a new song or baking gorgeous bread or simply being a nice, brave and thinking person, you know.

I get angry with myself when I feel uncertain of how to live, where to live, who to be, how to do etc. That happens now and then.

It was a Miles Davies record at the sales. I haven’t listened to it yet.

Depends on my mood and situation. But one song that has followed me through my life is ‘Standing on a Beach’ by The Cure. It’s not necessarily my all time favourite song, but it clung to my heart anyway.

THE ALBUM ‘LOVE AND YOUTH’ WILL BE RELEASED ON JULY 24TH THROUGH RABID RECORDS.