Meja
| Meja | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Meja Anna Pernilla Kullersten |
| Born |
12 February 1969 Nynäshamn, Sweden |
| Origin | Sweden |
| Genres | Pop, pop rock, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | singer |
| Instruments |
Vocals Guitar |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | C2/Columbia Records/Sony Music/Seven Sisters Network Records |
| Website | meja.net |
Meja Anna Pernilla Kullersten (born 12 February 1969), formerly Meja Anna Pernilla Beckman, is a Swedish composer, artist and singer. Among her best known songs are "I'm Missing You", "All 'Bout the Money" and "Private Emotion" (duet with Ricky Martin). She also gained popularity after her single "How Crazy Are You?" was used as the main theme music for the Xbox video games Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball and Dead or Alive Xtreme 2.
Prior to her solo career, Meja was a part of the dance group Legacy of Sound in the early 1990s where she co-wrote the songs with Anders Bagge on several singles including the top 10 hit "Happy".
Meja released her new single "Blame It On The Shadows", on 20 September 2013 and the EP "Stroboscope Sky" was commercially released later in 2015.
The single is written by Meja and Nicolas Gunthardt and produced by Ebbot Lundberg (former TSOOL). During 2014, Meja is ambassador for "The Non Violence Project".
Meja was born Anna Pernilla Torndahl, in Nynäshamn, . At the age of three she named herself Meja, a name that in 1976 became a legal registered Swedish name. Today hundreds of children in Sweden have been named "Meja".
At the age of 5, Meja started writing poems, singing in choirs and acting. She had her stage debut at "Ystads City theatre" at the age of 7. She was brought up in a musical family, her grandfather, Per Lundkvist, was a composer of both classical and contemporary music and her mother, a recording artist as a child before choosing a path as a painter.
In 1986, at the age of 16, she moved to Mallorca, Spain, to study. She was introduced to American jazz trumpet player/singer Stephen Frankevich and started to take vocal lessons with singer Deborah Carter. This is when she discovered jazz and decided to focus on a music career.
Meja went to Stockholm in 1990 to pursue her ambitions. She was singing in different bands on the Stockholm night life scene, before getting out on tour as a backup singer for the Swedish group Rob n Raz DLC in 1991 featuring Lutricia McNeal and David "D-Flex" Seisay. In 1992 Meja moved to Los Angeles to continue her studies at the "The Musicians Institute" in Hollywood. She graduated from the vocal program "VIT" in late 1992 before returning to Sweden.
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