Per Gessle Biography
Per Gessle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson (Gessle being the chief songwriter in both bands). With Fredriksson’s illness in 2002, he went back to recording solo albums, reformed Gyllene Tider in 2004 and became a successful artist in his native Sweden, selling multi-platinum albums.
Per Gessle Career
Roxette
Following Fredriksson’s visitor appearance in Amsterdam, Roxette began to perform live once more. At first, this was during the Night of the Proms show arrangement in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in 2009, later pursued by broad show visits in 2010, 2011 and 2012, performing more than 100 shows on each of the 6 landmasses.
In the late spring of 2013, Per rejoined with his first band Gyllene Tider again, playing out somewhere in the range of 20 shows in Sweden for a crowd of people totaling around 300,000 individuals.
En händig man and Party Crasher
In June 2007, he discharged another independent collection in Swedish with the name En händig man, which transported multiple times platinum. A solitary of a similar name was discharged; “En händig man”. Later in October a book of “Att vara Gessle” was distributed, educating a portion of the obscure certainties regarding Gessle and his 30-year career.
In late 2008, Gessle discharged Party Crasher, his seventh independent collection and third in English. The principal single off the collection “Senseless Really” was discharged on 29 October 2008 and accomplished basic praise from Expressen, calling Per a “pop genius”. After that, Gessle began his Party Crasher Tour, where Marie Fredriksson went along with him in front of an audience twice, in Amsterdam and Stockholm. This was eight years after their last live exhibition together during Roxette’s Room Service Tour in 2001, and after Fredriksson had recouped from a mind tumor found in 2002.
Per Gessle Age
Per was born on 12 January 1959 in Halmstad, Sweden.
Per Gessle Family
Parents
The songwriter was born Per Håkan Gessle in Halmstad to Kurt Gessle and Elisabeth Gessle.
Siblings
He has two siblings: Bengt Gessle (brother) and Gunilla Gessle (sister).
Per Gessle Wife
Per married his long-time girlfriend Åsa Nordin (born 1961) in 1993 at Västra Strö Church, Eslöv, Sweden. The wedding reception was held in the nearby Trollenäs Castle.
Per Son
The couple is a proud parent of one son, Gabriel Titus, born on 5 August 1997.
The world according to Gessle
In 1996, after a gathering and ensuing voyage through Gyllene Tider, Gessle recorded his first English independent collection, utilizing Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as sponsorship artists. Christoffer Lundquist from Brainpool would likewise come to work together with Per on later discharges.
In 1996, after a gathering and ensuing voyage through Gyllene Tider, Gessle recorded his first English independent collection, utilizing Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as sponsorship artists. Christoffer Lundquist from Brainpool would likewise come to work together with Per on later discharges.
Mazarin
After Roxette discharged Have a Nice Day (1999) and Room Service (2001) to direct achievement, Per proceeded with his performance work.
The resulting collection Mazarin (2003), was exceptionally effective in Sweden, going multiple times platinum in 2004. His first collection including vocalist Helena Josefsson presented to Gessle various honors; four Grammis grants: Best Artist, Best Male Pop Performer, Best Composer, and Best Song. He additionally won three Rockbjörnen grants: Best Swedish Male Artist, Best Swedish Album and Best Swedish Song — and a Guldälgen (The Golden Moose) Award for Best Song. The tune “Här kommer alla känslorna (på en och samma gång)”, is Gessle’s best discharge in Sweden, going through two months at No. 1, while picking up platinum status.
Additionally in 2004, saw Gessle and Gyllene Tider rejoined for a 25th-commemoration festivity that remembered the band’s first collection for a long time, Finn 5 fel! furthermore, another effective visit in Sweden. They beat the Ullevi arena participation record, which was later broken by individual Swede Håkan Hellström in 2016 (70,144), and the band played to practically a large portion of a million fans. Thus, the gathering was regarded with four honors in Sweden.
Per Gessle Songs
- Do You Wanna Be My Baby?
- Kix
- I Want You to Know
- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
- Här kommer alla känslorna (På en och samma gång)
- På promenad genom stan
- Tycker om när du tar på mej
- C’mon/Jo-Anna Say
- Hey Mr. DJ
- I Like it Like That
- En händig man
- Jag skulle vilja tänka en underbar tanke
- Pratar med min müsli (hur det än verkar)
- Silly Really
- I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
- Sing Along
- Småstadsprat (with Lars Winnerbäck)
- Name You Beautiful (featuring Helena Josefsson)