SWEDEN has always been a bit of a dark horse when it comes to the music. Now and then, the country produces a band such as Abba or, more recently, Roxette, which takes the world by storm.
But now, with Eric Gadd, it may finally have found a solo representative. Gadd, who thinks of himself as an 'anonymous white guy making soul music', is taking the soul market in Europe by storm with his latest album Floating.
It is just as well Gadd is not easily discouraged or he might not have seen Floating - his fifth release and his second in English - turn out to be such a success in other countries.
One of his previous albums, On Display, which was recorded in Manhattan, New York, was hit by a series of disasters that were so coincidental they seemed unreal.
Gadd and producer Klas Wikberg had taken 700 kilograms of equipment with them to Manhattan, but the studio they had hired could not pay its rent and the Internal Revenue Service impounded all their equipment.
'Then our tape machine caught fire and the camera was stolen while we were filming our music video. You name it, we had it,' Gadd said, from his home in Stockholm.
