Lars Bygden

Background

Lars Bygdén was born 1973 in Sundsvall, Sweden.

Career

His musical career started as guitarist in the psychedelic bands Magic Broom and The Shades of Orange. In 1996 Bygdén formed the country-rock combo The Thousand Dollar Playboys. The group released two critically acclaimed albums and got a lot of attention in Swedish media.

The band dissolved in 2003.

The album included the song This Road, a duet featuring Ane Brun (also featured on Brun"s album Duets). In 2006 Lars did the theme song for the Swedish television-show Grattis Världen!, a cover of Iggy People’s"s The Passenger.

In the spring of 2009 Bygdén released his second solo-album, the conceptual Family Feelings.

Achievements

• Lars Bygdén has continued as a solo-artist on the record label Massproduktion and released his first solo album Trading Happiness for Songs in 2005 which won the Swedish Manifest award for best singer/songwriter album of the year.