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aka: Per Håkan Gessle
Based in: Sweden
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Per Håkan Gessle (born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop/rock duo, Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was disbanded after her death in 2019. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their albums, Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and topped the charts in the US four times, most notably with “It Must Have Been Love” which was featured in the film, Pretty Woman.
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In 2016, Per Gessle started using the pseudonym, Mono Mind, first releasing a few singles before delivering a full album, Mind Control, in 2019. In June 2022, Gessle released a single called “The Loneliest Girl In The World” under the name PG Roxette. The single previews an album Gessle has recorded with members of Roxette’s live touring band, called Pop-up Dynamo.
In 1990, Gessle wrote a single, “The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye”, for Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame); Roxette would release their version as the B-side of their single “Spending My Time”. The song was also used by Laura Branigan featuring on her Over My Heart album. He has also participated with the Swedish singer, Nisse Hellberg, in the project The Lonely Boys.
In 1996, he worked with Belinda Carlisle and wrote two songs for her album, A Woman and a Man: “Always Breaking My Heart” and “Love Doesn’t Live Here”. The former was released as a single, becoming a UK top 10 hit. Per Gessle sung duet with Nick Lowe on the title track for the Small Town Talk album.
His discography includes fourteen studio albums (including one as Son of a Plumber, one as Mono Mind, and one as PG Roxette), four live albums, three compilation albums, one collaborative album, three box sets, six demo albums, one soundtrack album, two EPs, and three video albums. He also released 53 singles, including two as a featured artist, one as Peter Pop and the Helicopters, one as Rita & the Rip-Off!, eight as Mono Mind, and seven as PG Roxette.
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