Susanna Lindeborg (born April 18, 1952, in Halmstad) is a Swedish jazz pianist, flautist and composer, leader of the group Mwendo Dawa. She also was a member of female group the Jazz group Salamander.
Career
Susanna Lindeborg was born on April 18, 1952 in Halmstad Sweden. After taking classical piano lessons in the early 1970s, Lindeborg discovered jazz, which became an important source of inspiration for her. In 1974, she founded the quintet Mwendo Dawa with saxophonist Ove Johansson. With this group, for which she writes a large part of the repertoire, she went on many world tours and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival. She performed in Europe, Asia, North and South America. By 2018, she had released 21 albums with Mwendo Dawa.[1]
In addition, Lindeborg toured extensively in the early 1980s with the all-female jazz band Salamander, with whom she performed in Europe and the USA. In 1989 she took part in the SWF's New Jazz Meeting. In the same year she released her first solo album Susanna Lindeborg solo. In recent years she has also performed in the Lindeborg/Johansson Duo and then in the trio Natural Artefacts, with which she moved towards electroacoustic improvisational music. Together with Per Anders Nilsson, Merje Kägu and Anton Jonsson, this resulted in the improvisation quartet Natural Artefacts, which released the album The Crux in 2018.[2]
She also gives solo concerts in which she uses computers to create electroacoustic backgrounds. In 2011 she was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize.[3] Since 2012 she has been curating a concert series in her home Region Halland called INES presenting new music.
In 1989 she started the record label LJRecords together with her husband Saxophone player Ove Johansson.[4]
