Mikael Erlandsson is a singer, songwriter and keyboardist born in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden. He recorded four solo albums which has also been released in Japan and the Far East. He is also known in Europe since his participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 in 2003.

Since 2002 he has been fronting Swedish/German band Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 and he has been chosen for various AOR projects like Tommy Denander's "Radioactive", "Northern Light" and "Heartbreak Radio".

1978–93: Early bands

Erlandsson started as a drummer in a punk-rock band "Infektion" They released a single with two tracks "Dimman" and "Hash" in 1978. He also was a member of the hard rock band "Rain" with Bengt Lundh and Mikael Carlsson. He later joined the band "Studs" as a keyboard player. The single called Frågor Och Svar became a local hit in 1982. After a few years he developed his song writing and started the new band N'gang in 1985 as their lead singer.

"N'gang" was 5th in Melodifestivalen 1990

Melodifestivalen 1990

Melodifestivalen 1990 was the contest for selection of the 30th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 29th time that this method of picking a song had been used. 1223 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition...

 with the song Vi vill ha värme.

In 1993, he was part of a band called "Crash" and with them released their self-titled debut album and a national tour.

1994–2001: Solo and guest vocalist recordings

In 1994, he released his first solo album called The One and in 1995 released his second solo album called Under The Sun.

In 1996 Erlandsson spent most of his time touring in Sweden and performed at "Ullevi" as a warm-up artist for Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

 as well as a support tour with Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

.

In 1997, he released his 3rd solo album called Unfamiliar meanwhile continued writing songs for Swedish artists.

In 1999, Erlandsson made backing vocals for Sayit, a guitarist who released his self-titled first solo.

In 2001 was guest to made backing vocals on Standing On The Outside, a track from Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander is a guitarist and producer.He has appeared on more than 2000 albums with artists such as: Michael jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Ricky Martin, BB King, Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, David Coverdale, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Toto, Fee Waybill, Richard Marx, Robin...

 and Ricky Delin's new project Prisoner.

2002–2007: Between Last Autumn's Dream and guest vocalist

His 4th solo album was released in 2003 and was called The Gift, also he was lead singer of 4 tracks from Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander is a guitarist and producer.He has appeared on more than 2000 albums with artists such as: Michael jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Ricky Martin, BB King, Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, David Coverdale, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Toto, Fee Waybill, Richard Marx, Robin...

's Radioactive - Yeah!. Songs were: Yeah, I Should Have Known Better, Fire Within and Make It Mine.

Erlandsson was on the semifinals for Melodifestivalen 2003 with the song Tills jag mötte dig (Until I met you). Also was in the Polish national

Piosenka dla Europy 2007

Piosenka dla Europy 2007 was the Polish national selection for the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, to be held in Helsinki, Finland. It was held in the TVP studios in Warsaw on the 3rd February 2007...

 selection for the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

Eurovision Song Contest 2007

The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was won by first-time appearance as an independent country Serbia and was held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland from 10 May to 12 May. The host broadcaster was YLE.Finland earned the right to host...

 with the song Love In The Air.

In 2004 he sang 3 tracks on Heartbreak Radio, the debut release of a band formed by the production team Torbjörn Wassenius and Claes Andreasson, who in the past have been known for their work with Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 and the solo work of Erlandsson. Musicians such as Mikkey Dee (Motörhead) on drums and Magnus Rosén

Magnus Rosén

Klas Magnus Rosén is a Swedish musician, born 1963 in Gothenburg, and is best known for being the bassist of the Swedish band HammerFall during the years 1997-2007....

 (HammerFall

HammerFall

HammerFall is a power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath guitarist Oscar Dronjak.- Early days :...

) on bass guitar, Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander is a guitarist and producer.He has appeared on more than 2000 albums with artists such as: Michael jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Ricky Martin, BB King, Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, David Coverdale, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Toto, Fee Waybill, Richard Marx, Robin...

 and Sayit on guitars and Pierre Weinsberg on vocals were guests in the recording.

In 2005, Erlandsson sang on 2 tracks on Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander is a guitarist and producer.He has appeared on more than 2000 albums with artists such as: Michael jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Ricky Martin, BB King, Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, David Coverdale, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Toto, Fee Waybill, Richard Marx, Robin...

's Radioactive - Taken This I Promise You and Carry On - and also with the band Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 released their second album "II".

Also in 2005, he sang The Story Lives On from Northern Light debut album with artist like Fergie Frederiksen (Toto

Toto (band)

Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams , David Paich , Steve Porcaro , Steve Lukather , Mike Porcaro , and Simon Phillips . Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard...

).

In 2006, with the band Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 released their following-up albums Winter in Paradise and Saturn Skyline in 2007.

Also in 2006, he wrote two of the songs on the album called Varje steg du tar released by the Swedish band "Surround". This one did very well in Japan and had great reviews in Burrn!

Burrn!

Burrn! is a monthly Japanese magazine, published since 1984, for fans of heavy metal music. It is published by Shinko Music in Tokyo. The magazine's content is in Japanese, but the covers are predominantly in English.-References:* Japanavision...

magazine.

On June 6, 2007, the band Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 released their first greatest hits album, Impressions: The Very Best of LAD, an exclusive release for the Japanese market.

On September 30, 2007, his main band, Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 were chosen to be part of the "United Forces Of Rock III Festival", with Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner , is an American rock singer, known for his works with Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Deep Purple. From the late 1990s, he continued to perform in a large number of solo albums and other studio projects...

, Stan Bush, Danger Danger, White Wolf, Soul Doctor and Human Zoo, at the Rockfabrik in Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart) in Germany.

2008–2009: Salute - A new Beginning

Again with Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

, Erlandsson released their fifth studio album, Hunting Shadows in Japan on February 22, 2008 as well as the live album Live in Germany 2007.

The sixth album release with Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

  was called Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher (Last Autumn's Dream album)

Dreamcatcher is the sixth studio album by hard rock band Last Autumn's Dream released by Marquee Avalon in Japan on December 24, 2008 and meanwhile Escape Music have it in their schedule to be out for Europe on January 26, 2009.-Track listing:...

 and it was released in Japan on December 24, 2008 and was released in Europe on January 26, 2009.

In 2009 Erlandsson wrote the song "Dynamite", which finished third in the Latvian selection for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest

Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Latvia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, marking its tenth entrance to Eurovision. Originally, after budget cuts were made by the Latvian government on the Latvian broadcaster, Latvijas Televīzija , announced plans to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Russia, but on...

 entry.

Erlandsson formed a new band called Salute with Martin Kronlund (guitar), Imre Daun (drums) and Henrik Thomsen (bass). They recorded their first album titled Toy Soldier which would be released by Escape Music.

In the middle of 2009 he once again started to work with Mikael Carlsson ( from "Rain" back in 1982 ) with his project "Lover Under Cover".

2010–2011

His main band Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream

Last Autumn's Dream is a hard rock band formed in 2002 by vocalist and keyboardist Mikael Erlandsson from Sweden and guitarist Andy Malecek from the German hard rock band Fair Warning....

 lost to the bass player Marcel Jacob

Marcel Jacob

Marcel Karl Jacob was a Swedish musician, best known as the bassist in the hard rock bands Talisman and Last Autumn's Dream.-Biography:In 1978, Jacob formed the band Rising Force together with guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen...

 - who died in 2009 - and they comeback replacing Jacob with Nalley Pahlsson - bass player from Treat

Treat (band)

Treat is a melodic-rock band from Stockholm, Sweden. In the second half of the 1980s they had national as well as international successes with songs like "Too wild", "Get you on the run", "Ride me high", "World of promises" and "Party all over"....

 and Therion

Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...

 among others.

They recorded a new release called A Touch Of Heaven (2009–2010) and in January 21, 2011 they edited their latest recording called Yes. Both recording are dedicated to Marcel Jacob.

With the band Salute, Erlandsson was involved in the recording of their second effort called Heart of the Machine (2010).

with Last Autumn's Dream

• 2002 - s/t
• 2005 - II
• 2006 - Winter In Paradise
• 2007 - Saturn Skyline
• 2007 - Impressions: The Very Best Of LAD (Japanese market)
• 2007 - Hunting Shadows
• 2008 - Live In Germany 2007
• 2008 - Impressions: The Very Best Of LAD (German market)
• 2009 - Dreamcatcher
  Dreamcatcher (Last Autumn's Dream album)
  Dreamcatcher is the sixth studio album by hard rock band Last Autumn's Dream released by Marquee Avalon in Japan on December 24, 2008 and meanwhile Escape Music have it in their schedule to be out for Europe on January 26, 2009.-Track listing:...
  
  
• 2010 - A Touch Of Heaven
• 2011 - Yes

as solo artist

• 1994 - The One
• 1995 - Under The Sun
• 1997 - Unfamiliar
• 1999 - The Best of
• 1999 - Tears Of Heart
• 2003 - The Gift

Collaborations

• 1999 - Sayit - Sayit
• 2001 - Sahara - Sahara
• 2001 - Prisoner - II
• 2003 - Tommy Denander's Radioactive - Yeah!
• 2005 - Heartbreak Radio - Heartbreak Radio
• 2005 - Tommy Denander's Radioactive - Taken
• 2005 - Northern Light - Northern Light
• 2006 - Surround - Varje steg du tar
• 2010 - Shining Line - Shining Line
  Shining Line
  Shining Line is the collaboration between the italian musicians Pierpaolo "Zorro 11" Monti and Amos Monti , and guest stars such as Erik Martensson, Robin Beck, Harry Hess, Mikael Erlandsson, Michael Voss and Michael Bormann, as lead vocalist, and Vinny Burns as lead guitarist.-Track...
  
  
• 2010 - Tom Galley’s Phenomena - Blind Faith

Various Artist compilations

• 1995 - The Best Disco Music Vol. 6
• 1995 - New Beat Vol. 11
• 2003 - Melodifestivalen 2003
• 2004 - Voices Of Rock
• 2009 - Fireworks #35

CD Singles

• 2003 - Tills jag mötte dig (Until I met you)
• 2008 - Put some love in the world