Jens Lekman is tagged as: swedish, singer-songwriter, indie, indie pop, pop
Jens Lekman Martin (born February 6, 1981 in Angered, Sweden) is a Swedish pop musician living in Melbourne Australia, he has released three albums and several EPs since 2003, his music can be described as guitar-pop with heavy use of samples and strings, the lyrics are often witty and romantic TEARFUL His work is often compared to Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, Jonathan Richman, and Morrissey
Lekman recorded and released much of his material privately from 2000 to 2003 on CD-R as one of his songs this time was entitled "Rocky Dennis' Farewell Song to the Blind Girl" was Lekman incorrectly referred to as Rocky Dennis for a while (the song was actually written from the main character in the 1985 film Mask), Lekman says: EPA that it was a "mistake": "someone thought it was myreal name because I had a song about him and then radio picked up on it and I never had the chance to change it "He put the confusion to rest with his Rocky Dennis in Heaven EP (2004)
His self-released 7" vinyl EP Maple Leaves caused a big stir in 2003, mainly due to sound files circulating on file sharing networks, where the same EP was released on CD by the Swedish label Service Records in the fall, he was already a household name The songs "Maple Leaves" and "Black Cab" were ... Read More About Jens Lekman Biography...
