Andreas Öberg (born 6 August 1978) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, and music producer.
Music career
Öberg in 2008
Öberg was born in Stockholm on 6 August 1978. At the age of seven, he began taking classical guitar lessons at school. By He twelve, he started playing electric guitar, influence by a teacher who specialized in blues and jazz fusion. He later studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.[1]
He began his professional career at eighteen, collaborating with Viktoria Tolstoy and Svante Thuresson. Between 2003 to 2006 he recorded six albums for Hot Club Records produced by Jon Larsen featuring Jimmy Rosenberg, Marian Petrescu and others. In 2006, he signed with Resonance Records, describing his music at that time as a blend of jazz, funk, soul, Latin, and Brazilian music. He recorded with the Resonance Big Band on an album that received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement. In 2009 he started a website, Andreas' Guitar Universe, where he offers online classes. He has worked with Barbara Hendricks, Hank Jones, Les Paul, Eros Ramazzotti, and Toots Thielemans.[1]
Öberg was hired to write a song for a commercial that appeared on Swedish television. Since then he has composed for Universal Music. He wrote a song with Andreas Carlsson, who encouraged him to write lyrics in addition to music. As a songwriter Öberg has collaborated with Melanie Fontana and Ludwig Göransson. He has written and produced pop music for the Swedish, American, and Japanese markets.[1]
In 2015 Shinee's album, Odd (including "Romance", co-written by Öberg), topped the Korean Gaon album chart for two consecutive weeks and the Billboard World Albums chart at the end of May 2015.[2]
In May 2016, Namie Amuro released her single "Mint" where both the A- and B-sides ("Mint" and "Chit Chat") were co-written and co-produced by Öberg. The song sold more the 250,000 digital copies in Japan and was certified Platinum. In June 2016, Exo released their album Ex'Act, which included "Stronger", cowritten by Öberg. The album was the most sold in the world according to Global Album chart[3] and has sold more than one million physical copies.[4]
Öberg won the Hagström Guitar Award and the Gevalia Music Prize in 2004[5] and the International Guitar Competition Prize in Montreux in 2006.[6] He has taught classes at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood.[7]
