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| Origin | Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
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| Website | kleerup.net (archived at Wayback Machine) |
Andreas Kleerup (born 1979), professionally known as Kleerup, is a Swedish electropop musician.
Kleerup's career as a producer, composer, songwriter and artist began in music as a songwriter, going on to tour with Teddybears and Robyn as a musician. In 2007, Kleerup released "With Every Heartbeat" featuring Robyn, which peaked at number 23 on the Swedish Singles Chart. "With Every Heartbeat" achieved greater success outside Sweden, most notably in the United Kingdom, where it topped the UK Singles Chart in August 2007 and became the second single by Swedish artists to top the charts in Britain during the 2000s decade after "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz in September and October 2004. The single peaked within on top ten of the charts in several other European countries, as well as peaking within the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.[ citation needed ]
Kleerup's debut album, Kleerup, was released in 2008. The album and Kleerup received six Grammy nominations and won in three categories: "Best Newcomer", "Best Producer", and "Best Composer". Among the collaborating artists on the album are Lykke Li, Robyn, and Neneh Cherry. The mini-album, As If We Never Won, followed in 2014.
The 2010s also saw Kleerup expand his career as a composer. In 2010, he and Carl Bagge composed the music for Stockholm City Theatre's 50th-anniversary performance, a musical adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate Harry Martinson's Aniara , performed by a double string quartet.
In 2010, NME name Kleerup one of the 20 hottest producers in music. [1]
In September 2014, Kleerup announced the first of two mini-LPs, As If We Never Won, [2] and shared credit of the song "Let Me In" with Susanne Sundfør. H&M used the track for their Fall Fashion 2014 advertising campaign in cinema, TV, and Online.
In addition to his work as a composer and songwriter, Kleerup has worked with and remixed such iconic artists as Lady Gaga, Moby, The Cardigans, and Nonono.
In March 2020, Kleerup released his latest album, 2. [3]
Kleerup is married. He has one child from an earlier relationship. [4]
Kleerup was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Tourette syndrome in 2007. [4] He has also struggled with depression for long periods of his life and made a suicide attempt in 2009. [4]
| Year | Album Title | Chart Positions | ||
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| SWE | UK | |||
| 2008 | Kleerup | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | Aniara | 47 | — | |
| 2020 | 2 | — | — | |
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | ||
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| SWE | UK | |||
| 2009 | Hello Holla EP | — | — | |
| Lead Singer Syndrome (with Markus Krunegård) | — | — | ||
| 2014 | As If We Never Won | 52 | — | |
| 2016 | Det var den sommaren | — | — | |
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | ||
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| SWE | DK | UK | ||
| 2005 | "Medication" | — | — | — |
| 2007 | "With Every Heartbeat" (with Robyn) | 18 | 7 | 1 |
| 2008 | "Longing for Lullabies" (with Titiyo) | 7 | 10 | — |
| "3AM" (with Marit Bergman) | 35 | — | — | |
| "Forever" (with Neneh Cherry) | 56 1 | — | — | |
| 2013 | "Requiem Solution" (with Loreen) | |||
| 2014 | "I Got You" (with Ola Salo) | |||
| "Let Me In" (with Susanne Sundfør) | — | — | — | |
| 2015 | "Imorgon är en annan dag" | 43 | — | — |
| "Så länge skutan kan gå" | 54 | — | — | |
| "Beautiful Life" | 60 [5] | — | — | |
| 2020 | "I Need Love" [6] (with Rebecca & Fiona) | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released. | ||||
1Not officially released as a single, but charted due to extensive downloading.
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