Background
He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett.
He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett.
He attended Rytmus, a musical secondary school in Stockholm where famous Swedish singer Robyn trained.
He signed with TEN Music Group in 2007 and through TEN Erik also signed with Roxy Recordings for Sweden, Island Records for Europe and Universal Republic for North America. Hassle was raised in a rural village two hours south of Stockholm and originally aspired to be a professional football player. He signed a deal with the Swedish music company TEN Music Group.
Later Erik also signed to Roxy Recordings for Sweden, Island Records for Europe and Universal Republic for North America.
Swedish career Hassle released his first single, "Hurtful" in September 2008. lieutenant went to reach #11 in his native Sweden and peaked at #2 in Denmark.
He later released his second single "Don"t Bring Flowers" which peaked at #25 in Sweden, and his album Hassle which debuted at #2 and stayed in the Swedish charts for 10 weeks. International career On 23 August 2009 Hassle released "Don"t Bring Flowers" his first international single.
In late 2009 he embarked on touring outside of Sweden and released "Hurtful" in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2010.
lieutenant debuted at #59 and fell off the charts the following week. He altered a few songs his Swedish debut album and re-released the album as Pieces in the United Kingdom. lieutenant failed to chart in the United Kingdom Chart. He has been written up as a hot new act in The Guardian and other major newspapers, and on 19 January 2010, he was awarded the prize for "Newcomer of the Year 2009" at the P3 Guld gala.
Hassle visited Lynn Grove High School and Capital City Academy playing Don"t Bring Flowers, Amelia and his own cover of In for the Kill He toured with Mika in the United Kingdom in early 2010 as the supporting act and was very well received by Mika"s fans.
He also supported Mika at the closing night of the iTunes Festival in June 2009. On 19 May 2010 his single, "Hurtful" was picked as "Single of the Week" on iTunes Store, in which people could download his song free.
Hassle released an extended play (European Parliament) entitled The Hassle Sessions: Volume One consisting of cover songs, on 12 August 2010 in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Erik Hassle featured the English version of the single "Alors on danse", from the album of the same name by Stromae.
The track was made available through Spotify.
“Are You Leaving” was the first single from Erik Hassle’s mini-album Mariefred Sessions. The album was the result of a collaboration between Erik Hassle and Jocke Berg & Martin Sköld from the Swedish band Kent. Mariefred Sessions was released in Sweden on March 23, 2011.