Linnea Olsson

Linnea Olsson
Olsson in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Linnea Matilda Olsson
Born	1983 (age 41–42) Sweden
Genres	Indie folk art rock world music worldbeat pop neo-classical progressive rock
Occupations	Musician songwriter
Instruments	Vocals cello guitar bass keyboards drums percussion
Labels	Sony Music
Website	www.linneaolsson.net at the Wayback Machine (archived 2018-10-04)

Linnea Matilda Olsson (born 1983) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known and acclaimed as a cellist. A former member of the band Isildurs Bane [de], she released her first album, Ah!, in 2012,^[1] followed by a second album Breaking and Shaking in 2014.

Together with Jennie Abrahamson, she was an opening act Jennie + Linnea and background singer and tour cellist on Peter Gabriel's Back to Front-So tour from 2012 to the end of 2014. Both thus replaced the originally scheduled Ane Brun with her band as support act, which would have also included Linnea Olsson,^[2] and Linnea Olsson replaced Ane Brun as background singer.^[3][4][5]

She was the singer for the 2019 rhythm-action video game Sayonara Wild Hearts,^{[6][non-primary source needed]} with music composed by Daniel Olsén and Jonathan Eng.

• 2012: Ah! (Götterfunk Produktion)
• 2014: Breaking and Shaking (Götterfunk Produktions, Sony)
• 2017: For Show (Götterfunk Produktions)
• 2019: Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo AB)
• 2024: Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (Simogo AB)

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• Linnea Olsson (linneaolssoncello) (24 May 2023). "Linnea Olsson – Cello, vocals". Instagram. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
• "Linnea Olsson". ISNI. 24 May 2023. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
• "Linnea Olsson". MusicBrainz.org. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
• "Linnea Olsson – Swedish singer-songwriter, cellist and multi-instrumentalist, born 1983". Discogs. 24 May 2023. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
• "Linnea Olsson". Spotify. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2023.