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Steinar Aadnekvam

Steinar Aadnekvam is one of the most active and most talked about young and upcoming guitarists on the Scandinavian jazz scene.

Born in 1984, he is a mature and soulful musician. A rare guitar virtuoso. An artist with a message. A person with something to say.

Despite his young age, he has been around. Born in Bergen, Norway, a son of travelling parents, he had the fortunes and misfortunes of growing up in many places throughout Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Luxembourg. After studies at Södra Latin music college in Stockholm he enters, at 18, the Bachelor Jazz studies at the Royal College of Music, also in Stockholm, where he stays for 2 years. - Influential teachers at this time were in particular Mikke Rönnkvist, Alvaro Is-Rojas, Thomas Wixtröm, Andreas Oberg and Sten Höstfält.

In 2005, driven by a restless need to look elsewhere for further growth, he comes in contact with Indian Bansuri master, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, and is invited to his Brindavan Gurukul in Mumbay, where he lives and studies for some time. For family reasons he returns to Sweden, but soon fate takes him to North-Eastern Brazil, eventually a great influence and inspiration. He is a fequent returning visitor to the region ever since - these days spending half the year in the state of Pernambuco.

Professionally, he is a sought after guitarist and in growing demand as a jazz-songwriter and album producer. He has to this date toured as a leader in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Spain and Brazil.

Nominated for the prestigious "Young Nordic Guitarist 2009" Award and Finalist in equally prestigeous Norsk Jazzintro 2010 - Steinar Aadnekvam launches his label "Music Makes You Happy" with his debut release as a leader "Simple Things" (MMYH / Plugged).

The idea is to launch a series of releases, presenting Steinar's musical search and projects in various regions of the world in accordance with the label manifesto:

"Music Makes You Happy" is more than a record label. It is a motto. It sums up what we all know. Music is essencial to our happiness, to understand who we are, to percieve what we can do. Each on our own, in search of our soul. Music, if we really listen, takes us there.

It is our hope and desire to communicate to music audience and other and all people everywhere that independent music, independent artists need to be supported - in paricular through buying quality albums in order to enable their continued search and as a desired result, their continued development of our collective conciousness, spirit and joy of living wich is what arts, and in particular - music, is all about.

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