Daniel Lemma (born 1970 in Ethiopia) is a Swedish-based musician/singer-songwriter. His music is firmly connected to an American roots music tradition, with visible ties to early blues and gospel. He has referred to singers such as Lead Belly and Pops Staples as being very influential to him and artists such as Chuck Berry, James Brown and Bob Dylan.
Daniel Lemma was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia but went to Sweden as an infant. He formed his first band in his teens, and a couple of years later he moved to Gothenburg (where he still resides). He was adopted by a Swedish family and is widely known as a musician in the western world but he is now producing an album in his native Ethiopia for the first time, which he says was always at the top of his bucket list.
His unique sound has grown from his encounters with the audiences. He was already an experienced live-artist, both in Gothenburg and New York, when he debuted in 2001. In his late teens, Daniel moved to Gothenburg, where he started to perform at local clubs and bars. During the mid-1990s, Daniel was a member of the music group Mo Blues, which in 1997 released the album For the Road (Prophone Records). Soon afterwards, Lemma moved to New York where he entered into a record contract with Pallas Records. The time spent in New York served Lemma well as he developed and perfected his sound by performing around the city’s music hubs. Shortly after Lemma returned to Sweden, he had his musical breakthrough as his record Morning Train (2001) was cast as the soundtrack of Josef Fares’ hit movie Jalla! Jalla! The album, as well as the track single If I Used to Love You, sold gold and was nominated for the Grammy Music Award.
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