1. Michael Saxell was born on 1 October 1956 and is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer.
13 Facts About Michael Saxell
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Michael Saxell was born in Helsingborg, Sweden but has spent many years on the Canadian west coast.
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Michael Saxell is co-writer of the Swedish No 1 hit song "Johnny G ", performed by artist Badpojken, aka the artists' collective Michael Saxell, Fredrik Andersson and Ingvar Irhagen.
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Michael Saxell is co-writer with Craig Jacks on "Back Of A Map Of The Moon", which is included on Terry Jacks Greatest Hits 2015 release.
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Michael Saxell grew up in the southern Swedish town of Malmo and currently resides on Osterlen in Scania.
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Michael Saxell has written words and music to Scanian classics "Om himlen och Osterlen" and "Nar en flicka talar skanska".
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Michael Saxell has earned 24 gold, 11 platinum and 8 multi platinum Scandinavian records.
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Michael Saxell received the prestigious SKAP Stipendium award, honoring the memory of the Swedish songwriter and composer Evert Taube at an awards ceremony conducted at The Nordic Museum in Stockholm in May 2010.
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Michael Saxell performed on a tour of Estonia in May 2005 along with 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Tomas Transtromer, Jacques Werup, Eva Runefelt and others.
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Michael Saxell composed the Lithuanian Grammy winning song of the year "Yra kaip yra" for the artist Mia in 2007 along with co-writers Christian Svensson and Sandra diAmante.
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Michael Saxell produced and wrote songs for Swedish singer Lill Lindfors' 2005 EMI album release Har ar den skona sommar, which peaked at number 12 on the Swedish Best Selling albums chart.
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Michael Saxell was warm-up act for Jeff Beck on his 1980 Canada tour.
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Michael Saxell's co-writing partners include Randy Bachman, Eric Bazilian, Douglas Carr, Randy Goodrum, Maurizio Fabrizio, Tim Krekel, Dickey Lee, Agi Lindroth, Christoffer Lundquist, Peter McCann, Cris Moore, Craig Northey, Keith Reid, Steve Porcaro, Mikael Rickfors, Christian Svensson, Jacques Werup, and many others.