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Magnus Holmén
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- Los Angeles, CA / Stockholm, Sweden
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"You do your best work and you hope that it pulls out the best in your audience. That some piece of it spills over into the real world, and into peoples everyday lives. And that it takes the edge of the fear and allows us to recognize each other through our veil of differences.
I always thought that was one of the things popular art was supposed to be about."
- Bruce Springsteen (at the Academy Awards)
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Magnus Holmén is a Swedish singer/songwriter sharing his music with raw intensity and honesty, drawing influences from the great storytelling traditions as well as personal experiences.
Moving to Hollywood, California to pursue a musical career in the US he attended Guitar Institute of Technology and Vocal Institute of Technology at the well known Musicians Institute, and has since performed acoustic shows under his own name at venues in the Los Angeles area and around Scandinavia.
With his heart close to both folk and rock, and influenced by artists like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, amongst others, it comes very natural to compare him to them, but the keen listener can also hear traces of a strong Swedish musical heritage in his song-writing.
In 2009 Magnus released his debut album Burn which can be found on iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify and other places.
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"Sometimes all I can write about is simple human experience. The vastness of the bigger picture seems frustratingly elusive and doesn't lend itself well to being described with our meager vocabulary. This is why Truth can not be clearly stated, only implied in a poetical, artful way.
With some of my songs I have no higher ambition than to share stories about life as we usually see and feel it, and hope that it strikes a chord in the listener. Sometimes it's my story, sometimes not. With other songs though, I hope that my little stories of human experience in some subtle way point to that which I cannot fully express.
True art is always inherently given back to the source, leaving the artist humbled by his inspiration and the act of creating."
- Magnus Holmén
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