Career
Nicke Borg was part of the Backyard Babies, a Swedish rock band starting 1989 as lead vocals and rhythm guitarist. The band was formed in 1987 under the name Tyrant with bassist Tobbe (Tobias Fischer) as lead vocals and guitarist Dregen, guitarist Johan Blomqvist, and drummer Peder Carlsson. Nicke Borg replaced Tobbe as frontman two years after the formation of the band.
Blomqvist switched to bass at the same time.
While the Backyard Babies took a break, Borg worked on his solo project Nicke Borg Homeland. Homeland has released an European Parliament, "Chapter 1" and one full length album called "Chapter 2".
"Chapter 2" was released in January 2012 and Ruins of a Riot in 2013. Nicke Borg participated in 2011 in the race in Malmö where he went on to number two with premium "Leaving Home" to the final inside the Stockholm Globe Arena.
The song was co-written by Borg with Jojo Borg Larsson, Fredrik Thomander and Anders "Gary" Wikström.
In the final, he finished 8th in 10 finalists. Nicke Borg is one of the characters in the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles published by Omnibus Press in July 2010. Nicke Borg got his own radio show on radio station Bandit Rock.
His radio show broadcasts from 22:00 to 00:00 every Thursday.