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BIOGRAPHY – Eva Hillered
EVA HILLERED is a Swedish, Grammis nominated, recording and touring singer-songwriter. Eva is best known for her unique voice that boasts a deep soulfulness, coming from the need of expressing herself in songwriting from a very early age. She lives in Stockholm and has made nine solo albums, 13 singles, one duo- album, one EP with the trio True North ( Eva, Janni Littlepage-USA and Patrick Rydman – SE). She tours in Scandinavia, USA, and Germany. Her influences are singer-songwriters as Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Emmylou Harris, Eva Dahlgren (Sweden) and Anne-Grete Preus (Norway).
”Eva Hillered is a Swedish singer-songwriter that does something very brave and unusual, she goes her own way. The result has been a constant development since her debute in 1988.” (Allas magazine)
”Eva Hillered has got one of the best voices in Sweden right now. She integrates delicately her singer-songwriter esthetics with impulses from folk music and country.” (Magnus Eriksson, Rootsy).
The album New Me is a tribute to the healing power of music and can be placed musically in folk/americana genre. It includes her own songs, as well as co-writes with established writers from Iceland, Denmark, and USA.
”My love for music, writing and performing my own songs, has kept me on the track over the years, despite an chronic disease that I suffer from,” says Eva. ”As a teenager I got diabetes, and it felt as if my life had ended. I was very self destructive for many years, refused to accept my disease that felt like a prison. Then suddenly songs began to come to me, they became my light and my rescue, and made me feel a joy and meaning with my life, despite all the demanding blood checks and routines.”
Discography
2024 ” Orossjäl” – album with 8 songs, 3 Sewdish, and 5 in English. Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, except Tiger Lilly by Eva Hillered & Annette Bjergfeldt, and Perfect by Eva Hillered & Sean Millar
2024 “ Strange Light” (single) Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, production: Leva Studio’s
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2023″ Den största gåvan” (single) Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, production: Håkan Mjörnheim
2023 “Aldrig ensam mer” (single) Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, production: Peter Sund
2023 “Tiger Lilly” (single)Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered/Annette Bjergfeldt, production: Håkan Mjörnheim
2023 ”Loving Hearts” (single) Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered , production: Jonas Sjöblom.
2023 ”Roller Coaster Mind” (single). Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered , production: Håkan Mjörnheim.
2023: ”Pain Don´t Live Here” (single). Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered /Martin Lorenzon, production: Håkan Mjörnheim.
2021: ”I Can’t Make You Love Me” (cover-single). Music & Lyrics: Mike Reid / Allen Shamblin, production: Eva Hillered/ Jerry Sillah
2021: ”Save The Sea” (single). Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, production: Eva Hillered/ Jerry Sillah
2021: ”Why Don’t You See It” (single). Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, production: Eva Hillered/ Jonas Isacsson
2020: ”I Can’t Leave This House” (single). Music & Lyrics and production: Eva Hillered/ Tony McLaughlin
2020: ”Sjömansvisa med lyckligt slut” (single).Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered, production: Eva Hillered/ Coste Apetrea
2019: ”Both Feet On The Ground” (single). Music & Lyrics and production:Jerry Sillah
2018: ”New Me” (album) (Hill Songs). Produced by Peter Sund (DK) & Eva Hillered
2014: ”True North
2011: “Heaven & Hill” (Hill Songs),(album) Production: Andreas Tengbladh / Eva Hillered
2008: “Hill Songs” (Hill Songs). Production: Coste Apetrea
2005: “Life Line” (Hill Songs) (album) Production: Göran Eriksson / Eva Hillered
2004: ”Hjärtats röda mening” (Hawk Records) (album).Production: Göran Eriksson & Eva Hillered
2001: ”Fehling & Hillered” (Musicano) (album). Live album with Eva Hillered & Annika Fehling
1996: ”Öppningsskedet”. Music & Lyrics: Eva Hillered Production: Eva Hillered (Arbetslivsinstitutet)
1995: ”Jag vet” (Diva) (Album) Production: Lasse Englund.
1990: ”Stråets längd” (Record Station) (album). Production: Jonas Isacsson
1988: ”Inte varför – utan hur” (Record Station)(album). Production: Eva Dahlgren/ Anne-Grete Preus
PRESS:
”Hillered’s musical style ticks both the folk and country boxes with an easy listening charm, characterised best here on the title track and Rosanne Cash sounding Swede Hollow. The Curtain and Sing Him Back – the latter a co-write with Nels Andrews – are uncluttered and dreamlike with Hillered’s impressive vocals perfectly paced. Equally arresting is The Hunt, a haunting tune brought to life by well-placed backing vocals and slick guitar playing by Sund.” LONESOME HIGHWAY – Ireland
”Eva Hillered has made a beautiful, balansed and dynamic album” MUZIEWERELD – Holland
” Eva Hillered finds inspiration in the Americana and Country music which forms the bases of her distinctive and high-quality songwriting. A varied album delivered with plenty of soul and passion” ROCK’N*REEL – England
”This album from Sweden is recommended to fans of folk & Americana.”Keys & Chords – Patrick Van de Wiele
“Lira likes: Heaven & Hill – Eva Hillered, singer-songwriter with gold weathering”
“Hillereds warm country voice holds seriousness, humor and healthy self-distance. Her album is a hit, catchy, straight, honest, earthy, heart-warming and commendably varied. The recognition factor is high and favorite songs are Carousel and Stars on the snow. It feels like Eva Hillered found a home in country blues, and with her genuine personal expression she could never get into the trivial mainstream road of the genre.”
Lira, Swedish music magazine
”Heaven & Hill is Eva Hillered´s seventh solo album, twelve songs performed with instinctive feel, knowledge and strong conviction how it is supposed to sound. Eva Hillered´s voice is weightless, and behind her Andreas Tengblad plays brilliant on all the instruments he takes in his hands – guitarrs, banjo, base, cello, keyboard. Heaven & Hill is a delicate wonder in a genre where many fight to get attention. All light on Eva Hillered, please!”
Värmlands Folkblad, Swedish daily newspaper
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