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Linnea Olsson

Linnea Olsson

Musical artist

Linnea Matilda Olsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known and acclaimed as a cellist. A former member of the band Isildurs Bane [de], she released her first album, Ah!, in 2012,[1] followed by a second album Breaking and Shaking in 2014.

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Linnea Olsson (left) with Jennie Abrahamson during the Back to Front Tour of Peter Gabriel 2014 in Festhalle Frankfurt

Together with Jennie Abrahamson, she was a opening act Jennie + Linnea and background singer and tour cellist on Peter Gabriel's Back to Front-So tour from 2012 to the end of 2014. Both thus replaced the originally scheduled Ane Brun with her band as support act, which would have also included Linnea Olsson,[2] and Linnea Olsson replaced Ane Brun as background singer.[3][4][5]

She was the singer for the 2019 rhythm-action video game Sayonara Wild Hearts,[6][non-primary source needed] 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)

References

  1. [1]
    NPR Staff (22 January 2014). "A Gifted Cellist Sails Beyond Sweden, Across 'Fields Of Love'". NPR. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  2. [2]
    Jennie Abrahamson (19 September 2012). "Opening for Peter Gabriel on the Back To Front tour!". Jennie Abrahamson web site. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  3. [3]
    Jennie Abrahamson (13 September 2012). "SO! Back to Front tour with Peter Gabriel". Jennie Abrahamson web site. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  4. [4]
    Jennie Abrahamson (20 December 2014). "Peter Gabriel's So Back to Front Tour is over". Jennie Abrahamson wen site. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  5. [5]
    Peter Gabriel Ltd. (25 September 2012). "Jennie and Linnea on tour with Peter – 25th September, 2012". PeterGabriel.com. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  6. [6]
    @cellolinnea (12 December 2018). "Hi! I'm singing in a video game made by Simogo out 2019! ✨Sayonara Wild Hearts is a pop album video game about be…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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