Göran Fristorp - Master Craftsman

The Artiste

Göran Fristorp was born May 26, 1948 in Örebro, Sweden and has been a resident of Skillinge, Sweden for many years. He first made his name singing with the duo Malta who won the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest. But after
the accolades of international competition, Göran Fristorp performed more as a solo artist and went on to establish himself as a gifted song-writer, even turning down an offer to work full time as staff song-writer for Tijuana Brass legend Herb Alpert in the USA.

 As a solo performer, Fristorp has emerged as one of Scandinavia's most important singer-songwriters, graduating from his early days as an electric guitar player to become one of Sweden’s finest acoustic guitarists. His talents on the guitar are such that at one stage he was accepted as one
of 21 candidates for a seat at the world-famous Framnäs Music College and then went on to Gothenburg Conservatory, from where he set off on his career as a folk musician first and foremost, but ready to embrace any style of music he could comfortably relate to. Not surprisingly, some of his finest work outside the folk tradition has been on the edges of the world of jazz, working with some of the best names in Scandinavian jazz.

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