Tomas Andersson Wij

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Tomas Andersson Wij
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Background information
Birth nameTomas Per Andersson
Also known asTAW
Born (1972-02-06) 6 February 1972 (age 51)
Stockholm, Sweden
GenresPop
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • journalist
Years active1998–present
Website tomasanderssonwij.com

Tomas Andersson Wij (born 6 February 1972, birthname: Tomas Per Andersson), often abbreviated as TAW, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and journalist.

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Early life

He was born on 6 February 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in the south suburbs Fruängen and Sköndal.

Journalist and editor

Between years 1990 and 1997, Tomas Andersson Wij was a writer in Svenska Dagbladet , as well as Swedish music magazine Pop and Swedish entertainment publication Nöjesguiden . In the mid 1990s, he was editor of the television show Knesset on ZTV. He also worked as a DJ for Sveriges Radio in the summer of 2000.

He has edited two anthologies, Solidaritet (Cordia 1998) and Boken om Recovery (Libris, 2002). He is cofounder and coeditor alongside Sven-Gösta Holst for the existentialist journal Von Oben, which published two issues in 2002 and 2003.

Music

Producer Lars Halapi discovered Tomas Andersson Wij through a simple demo tape in 1995 and went on to produce Tomas Andersson Wij's first two albums. After the breakthrough album Ett slag för dig he toured regularly, usually as a solo act with his guitar. He was nominated for the Swedish Grammies for four times. TAW was also known as a great literature and poetry writer.

TAW attracted much more attention with in 2000 with his Swedish lyrics of Billy Joel songs, in the Helen Sjöholm album Euforia - Helen Sjöholm sjunger Billy Joel . In 2007 he took part in Melodifestivalen interpreting Carola's winning song Evighet also known as "Invincible" at the final in Globen.

The same year he received the Café Magazine 's category for "best dressed artist".

He has also written songs or translated lyrics for other artists and translations into other Swedish artists such as Freddie Wadling, Totta Näslund and Bo Kaspers Orkester.

In 2013, he was awarded the Evert Taube Scholarship. [1]

Discography

Albums

Singles and EPs

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