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Per Håkan Gessle (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpæːr ˈhôːkan ˈɡɛ̂sːlɛ] ⓘ; born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist.He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was disbanded after her death in 2019.
Roxette is a Swedish pop rock duo originally consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, both of whom were already established musicians in Sweden prior to the band's formation. Fredriksson had released a number of successful solo albums, while Gessle had been the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider , a band which had three number ...
Swedish singer-songwriter Per Gessle has released fourteen studio albums (including one as Son of a Plumber, one as Mono Mind, and one as PG Roxette), four live albums, three compilation albums, one collaborative album, three box sets, six demo albums, one soundtrack album, two EPs and three video albums.
Party Crasher is the third English solo album by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. This is his second worldwide-released English solo album under his own name after The World According to Gessle in 1997. [11] Originally scheduled for release on 3 December in Sweden, it was actually released a week earlier on 26 November.
Mazarin is the fourth studio album by Swedish pop musician Per Gessle, released on 16 June 2003.. Per Gessle thought of this album as his little side project from Roxette, but it turned out to be a huge success, subsequently being certified 5× platinum status in Sweden.
It was co-written by Per Gessle with American composer Desmond Child, and was originally intended for submission to other recording artists. However, Gessle was so pleased with the song that he asked Marie Fredriksson to record the vocals. In the album's liner notes, Gessle described it as the first Roxette song to be written by an "outsider". [4]
Per Gessle is the lead songwriter of Swedish acts Gyllene Tider and Roxette. [1] [2] In addition to this, he released material as a solo artist; his 2003 album Mazarin is his most successful solo record, [3] spending thirteen weeks at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart, [4] and selling over 335,000 copies in Sweden as of January 2005. [5]
Written by Per Gessle, it was released on 26 August 1991 by EMI as the third single from their third studio album, Joyride (1991). The song became a top ten hit in Belgium, Ireland and Sweden, and was the highest-charting single released from Joyride in France. It also reached the top twenty in a number of other countries, including Australia ...