Biography of Nina Andersson from Tiny Harvest
Nina was born in 1983 on the east coast of Sweden in Kalmar. Already as a very young little girl she often became an eye catcher with her soft voice full with feeling. At the age of six she started to dance at a local dance school (Dansinstitutet). The teachers saw that she was very talented and three years later she started to compete. Her life was filled up with her dancing, and she practised six days a week. When she was eleven she won the Swedish championship in a discipline called disco freestyle. She was the youngest Swedish champion ever. Three years later, when she was fourteen, she decided to stop practising dance and instead give her singing 100 percent.
Nina first met Peter Glyt when she was eleven but they didn’t start to work professional until five years later. Nina performed in Peters shows all over the country. In 2003 she moved 400 km north from Kalmar to Örebro. Nina and Peter continued to cooperate and they had more and more performances. Already in 2000 they started to record a CD with Nina leading and they also recorded some titles. At the beginning the sound was traditional pop but soon the sound became more soft – “naked”. Peter - who has written all the poems from what he knows about Nina - makes the songs very personal and private.
The recording of the bass and the drums where made in Pama Studios in Kristianopel. Robin Åkerman plays the drums and Johan Glössner the bass. Later Nina and Peter recorded all the songs in their own studio in Kalmar , just to make it all sound as authentic as possible.
It has been very important to give the record a genuine sound. Nina and Peter want the listeners to feel the history of the lyrics and they are both very satisfied with the result.
Sven-Göran Pettersson has cooperated as a producer and he also plays the piano and the organ. Johan Glössner and Peter Glyt play the guitars. All the arrangements with the choirs are made by Nina herself, Sofia Palmgren is in the choir on four of the tracks. On two tracks we can hear Urban Hed on the double bass. Peter and Nina asked Bo Reimer to help them with the mixing and very soon they understood that he could help them to give the album just the sound they wanted. The lead vocal is mixed loud and clear almost without any reverb or echo and Bo also erased some instruments – just to give the record the right live feeling.
Nina now lives in Stockholm since six months ago and she has no planes to move anywhere else. Stockholm is full of life just like Nina herself and it seems like good company.
- I have always had the feeling that Stockholm is so very big and I was a bit afraid of the anonymity,
but since I have spent more and more time in the capital the first feelings are now replaced with great visions for the future.
Now I feel ready for the rest of the world says Nina with her smile on her lips.