Erik Gr%C3%B6nwall

Per Erik Magnus Grnwall is a Swedish hard rockheavy metal singer and songwriter. In December 2009, he won the Swedish Idol television competition. During several of the shows he received standing ovations from the jury for his performances. His first single, Higher, sold gold on digital downloads after only three days. His first album, selftitled Erik Grnwall, was released just ten days after the finals and debuted at number one on the Swedish charts Sverigetopplistan and was certified platinum. Today he is the lead singer of the successful rock band H.E.A.T. Altogether as a solo artist and band member, he has numerous tophits.

Erik was born in Knivsta, a small town aboutmiles north of Stockholm. Erik started his musical career with playing the guitar in a local punkrock band. During high school his focus went from playing the guitar to more singing. He became the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the metalband RAID from northeastern Stockholm and played with them until summer 2008. His future as a singer really took shape for the first time as he performed the leading role as Galileo Figaro in the Queen musical We Will Rock You, doing a number of shows at Oscarsteatern in Stockholm. Aggressive, charismatic hard rock frontmen such as Paul Stanley and Freddie Mercury proved huge influences on Erik.

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