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About Tove Lo
Hometown
Sweden
Born
October 29, 1987
Genre
Alternative
Tove Lo packages love, sex, drugs, and vengeance into pure dance-pop pleasure. Born Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson in 1987, the singer/songwriter grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, where she started writing songs at age 11, before attending music high school Rytmus Musikergymnasiet. After a string of odd jobs and a stint in the alt-rock band Tremblebee, she adopted the moniker Tove Lo, a nickname coined by her godmother in reference to a lynx (“lo” in Swedish) that the young Tove fell in love with as a child. Lo soon scored a publishing deal, headed into the studio with producer extraordinaire Max Martin, and started a career as a songwriter for artists like Icona Pop and Ellie Goulding. But it was her own moody material that would push her into the spotlight, starting with 2013’s “Habits (Stay High),” a riveting peek into Lo’s dark, hedonistic journey through a breakup. This theme has come to dominate the Swedish provocateur’s throbbing electro-pop anthems, but not without all the lust, sizzle, and seduction that comes before a split—as first documented on her 2014 debut album, Queen of the Clouds. Since, she’s continued to give us nothing but real talk: “My music is kind of my journal now—my outlet,” she told Apple Music. As a result, her dance-floor confessions are as raw and revelatory (“True Disaster”) as they are hot and heavy (“disco t**s”), and her list of credits and collaborations—with Kylie Minogue, Charli XCX, Flume, Coldplay, and more—keeps on growing.
Musical InfluencesTove Lo's musical influences include Nirvana, Hole, Madonna and more.
Influenced by Tove LoTove Lo has influenced the music of Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Sigrid and more.
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