Swedish music duo that mixes folk music, pop and rock. The duo consists of the singer and the songwriter and nyckelharpa player (key harpist) and was in Sweden style-forming in the genre ethnopop in the mid-1990s.
They met in a studio in Hjorthagen, Sweden 1991. Håkan was there with his hardrockband Bye Bye to make a demo for a promo. Mats had experimented with mixing folk music and pop and was looking for a singer for his project. He asked Håkan if he was interested, and he was.
In 1993 they got a record contract with Sonet Grammofon. In February 1994 the first single Förlist was released. The album "Nordman" was released in late April the same year.
After only 4 weeks the album sold gold (50.000 copies at the time). The second single "Vandraren" went straight to number one in the charts, and stayed there the whole summer. During the summer the album also sold platinum (100.000 copies), and before the end of the year, triple platinum. Two more singles were released, "Laglöst Land
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