Thomas Gustafsson
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G:son in 2013
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| Birth name | Thomas Gustafsson |
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25 February 1968 Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden |
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| Years active | 1998–present |
Thomas Gustafsson (born 25 February 1968) is a Swedish composer and musician from Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden, north-east of Gothenburg. However, he is much more known nationally and internationally simply as Thomas G:son, his artistic name. Since 1998, Thomas has worked full-time as a songwriter for the company G:songs. In addition to writing and composing songs in many different musical genres for a living, he plays the guitar in the hard rock band, Masquerade. Thomas G:son is best known for the sixty-nine very diverse songs he has written for national finals of twelve different countries for the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC): thirty-nine for Sweden, eleven for Spain, six for Norway, five for Denmark, four for Finland, three for Georgia, two for Poland, and one each for Cyprus, Latvia, Romania, Belgium, and Malta. He has also reached the Eurovision Song Contest twelve times, three times each for Sweden, Spain, and Georgia, and once each for Norway, Denmark, and Cyprus. In 2012, G:son achieved his first victory as a winning composer at the Eurovision Song Contest with the entry "Euphoria".
The girl duo Indiggo which was going to perform the song was disqualified because they didn't turn up in time for a rehearsal. Additionally, an instrumental version of the song was not sent in time to the TV company.
In Eurovision Song Contest 2001 "Listen To Your Heartbeat" became part of a controversy after it was claimed that it was plagiarised from Belgium's 1996 entry "Liefde is een kaartspel" At first this was denied by the Swedish composers, Thomas G:son and Henrik Sethsson, but after the Belgian songwriters and the author's organisation SABAM pressed for legal action, a cash settlement was agreed.
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