Jens Lekman

Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitarbased pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. His work is heavily influenced by that of Jonathan Richman and Belle amp Sebastian, and he has been likened to Stephin Merritt , David Byrne, and Scott Walker.

Lekman was born February 6, 1981 in Angered, Gothenburg. As a child, he was not particularly interested in music, but the age of fourteen he was asked to play bass in a friends cover band. This sparked his own song writing and he quickly came to write hundreds of songs.

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