Surprise Box #138: Hawk Bjorn

Posted on 08 June 2016

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Growing up in the plateau-heeled shadows of ABBA in the land of the midnight sun and pickled herring, Hawk was intuitively drawn to harmony laden pop music like 10cc, Queen and ELO. Says Hawk: ‘I always sang along with all the back-up vocals instead of the lead vocal.  Just loved the complexities and the richness of the human voice”.

At seventeen, he left his native Sweden and a journey began that found him living and travelling all over the world, a bit of a global nomad, before finally finding home on the west-coast of Canada.  Hawk’s musical journey is equally diverse. From choral music to a serious love for reggae, his own music is mostly about pure and simple pop songs. Harmonies and catchy melodies along with passionate, introspective and universal lyrics are trademarks of his song-writing.   Over the years, Hawk has written and recorded with some of the music industry’s top producers and musicians including Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, REM), Andrew Gold (10cc, Linda Ronstadt), Michael Omartian (Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart), Clif Magness (Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson) and Glenn Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Bad”).

Hawk’s current album, “Life Insurance” is a collection of songs about family, about belonging, and the fragility of life but also of hope and gratitude. The record came together quickly and organically, driven by the vocals and the momentum of the melodies. “I’m just happy to share my story and music with the listener. When we connect and realize how much we all have in common, there’s hope and I know that the world will be a better place for it.  That’s the beauty and power of music”.

Hawk’s music is fresh, unaffected and instantly appealing.  And in today’s sometimes chaotic world, perhaps we all could use a little more “Life Insurance”.

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PRESS AND SOCIAL MEDIA:

CBC:    http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Hawk-Bjorn
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXH9q9atLUc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hawk-Bjorn/146695250012
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/#hawk-bjorn
Argentinian Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as6uvlDoxSQ

ART & RESOURCES

Flickr – download: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkbjorn/?details=1

CONTACT DETAILS

Hawk Bjorn Music
1-778-998-8901 mobile
hawk.bjorn@gmail.com

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