Lykke Li

Lykke Li's parents were both in punk bands (her mother Karsti Stiege was a member of all-girl group Tant Strul and her father Johan played guitar with punk-reggae outfit Dag Vag) and she was brought up in Portugal, Morocco, Nepal, India and New York, as well as Sweden. She was 21 when she recorded her first album Youth Novels in 2008, produced by Bjorn Yttling of the band Peter, Bjorn And John. It won great acclaim, her passionate and idiosyncratic style earning Li comparisons with Bjork and becoming a major hit in Sweden - spending 20 weeks in the album charts there. She steadily built a strong indie following in both the US and Europe, with her songs I'm Good, I'm Gone featured in the 2009 movie Sorority Row and Possibility in New Moon. Her cover of Kings Of Leon's Knocked Up also gained positive comment. In 2010 she was announced as the official face of the Levis Curve ID Collection and her song Until We Bleed with Kleerup featured in an episode of TV series Misfits. Her second studio album Wounded Rhymes was released in 2011, winning immediate critical acclaim, including the singles Get Some and I Follow Rivers.