LONG ISLAND CITY, New York
34 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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""With all the rules it's a race of fools and you can never win""

LEVEL

professional

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Gofa Music, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: K Management
Publishing: Gofa Music
Label: Kontainer Music - info@kontainermusic.com
Booking: info@salmedahlstrom.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

bass / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / keyboard / recorder / synthesizers / vocals

INFLUENCES

Madonna, Fatboy Slim, Beck, T-Rex, The Prodigy, Prince

DAY JOB

Pop Star & commercial producer

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG CUTS

Billy Gilman

SONG PLACEMENTS

Commercials: Vodafone, Quiznos, Subaru, Miller Lite, Virgin Mobile, Chips Ahoy, Dove TV: One Tree Hill, Veronica Mars, Moonlight

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

ISC - INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING CONTEST, 2008 "HELLO CALIFORNIA", FINALIST POP/TOP 40 ROCK SOLID PRESSURE COMPETITION , 2006 "SALME DAHLSTROM" - WINNER SONG OF THE YEAR, AUGUST 2005 "G.L.S.", FINALIST DANCE ELECTRONICA BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST, 2005 "HELLO CALIFORNIA", HONORABLE MENTION SONGWRITER UNIVERSE MAGAZINE, JULY 2004 "THINKING ABOUT IT...BABY", BEST SONG OF THE MONTH ISC - INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING CONTEST,2003 "THINKING ABOUT IT...BABY", SEMI FINALIST DANCE/ELECTRONICA

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

Co-wrote and performed 3 songs on Kelly St:Patrick's new album CO-wrote and performed 3 songs on Jeff Fiorello's new album

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,