The Cardigans

Biography

The Cardigans were formed by two Swedes Peter Svensson and Magnus Sveningsson, both ex-members of heavy metal bands. In 1992 they decided to unite their efforts and play a different genre to attract bigger audience. To complete the band, the musicians recruited Bengt Lagerburg, Lars-Olof Johansson and Nina Persson. The debut album by The Cardigans, Emmerdale, saw light in 1994. It met critical acclaim and had sales good enough for a first effort. The subsequent CD, Life (1995), appeared a much loved record in the USA, the UK and Japan as it had a good charts run in these countries. The band made an unexpected move delivering each song from this long player as a separate single. All of them entered Top 40 of the UK. To promote the record, The Cardigans went on a tour along with Blur. As a result, Life was distributed to the amount of one and half a million copies worldwide. The lyrics for the first two albums were written by Magnus. Since 1996, Magnus has shared this duty with Nina.

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