Perfect for Valentine’s Day, Ulf Nilsson release his new single You’re The One which was written to his beloved wife and fellow musician Linda Varg.
“This is the complete and ultimate declaration of love. I wrote it the way I felt it, head over heals in love, leaving nothing unsaid. If you’re lucky enough to love someone and to have someone love you back you know what I’m talking about.
So enjoy each moment you spend together to the fullest. Love is the greatest power and You’re the one”
// Ulf Nilsson
With a unique voice you don’t hear every day, Ulf “The Wolf” Nilsson delivers a soulful mix of rock and pop, sometimes adding a dash of heartland rock, with strong melodies and lyrics often rooted in his own life, all dressed in modern-day clothing.
Ulf got everyone’s attention in 2012 when he won the Swedish edition of “The Voice”. That no1 spot served to get him a major-label contract with Universal music, album release in 2013, and a double platinum certification for the title track “Little by little”. After years of touring he returned 2015 with the EP “The Continuation 1/2” which included the two singles “Going straight down” and “I’ll break your fall”. Both tracks debuted at no1 on iTunes rock Sweden.
In 2017 he released the single “Sing me a lullaby”, a duet featuring Linda Varg, which debuted at no1 on iTunes Sweden’s main chart.
After more years of touring it’s now the year 2020 and Ulf has teamed up with Docks / Fifth Island Music and is returning with the new album ‘MAKE A MOVE, some of it written and recorded in Nashville, some in Budapest and some in Sweden.
January 2020 took off with the release of “Where you belong”, co-written and recorded in Nashville with Grammy-winning songwriting team Drew Ramsey&Shannon Sanders (India Arie, Jonny Lang) and produced by Grammy-winning producer Matt Hyde (Monster Magnet, Slayer, AFI, Jonny Lang) and mixed in Sweden by Mathias Wollo (John Legend, Britney Spears, Ronan Keating, Rascal Flatts).
Music has always played a big part in Ulf´s life starting early in his younger years in his home town Halmstad listening to the classics like BB King, Muddy waters, Elvis Presley etc and at the age of 15, he and three like-minded friends got together and formed a 4-piece band, Baltasar Band, dedicated to playing songs by The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and other 60s-70s acts.
After studying science and math in college he decided to leave Sweden and try something new. That decision took him from train-hopping across Europe to hauling frozen fish in Norway to singing in hotels in Spain and Cyprus. After those trips he spent several years in Sweden and Denmark working in different show restaurants singing and waitering tables, all the while nurturing his dream to write and sing his own songs again.
2011 he recieved a phone call from the production team on “The Voice Sweden” saying they wanted him to audtion for the show, which he did eventually.
The year after auditioning he got the people’s attention when he won the show performing his original, country flavoured, song “I let the angels see me home” in the final. He landed a major label record deal and in 2013 his debut album “Little by little” saw the light of day. The title track was a huge cross-over hit and gained heavy rotation on both mainstream and rock radio. Ulf spent the following years touring and playing in front of thousands of fans, making multiple appearences on TV and radio both in Sweden and Germany. The remix of the song by Dutch DJ ‘Lulleaux’ also quickly became a big hit In Germany and got featured on multiple compilations, such as “About Berlin” and “Germany’s next top model”-.
