Daniel Lemma

Daniel Lemma is an Ethiopian born Swedish musician/singer-songwriter. His music is firmly connected to an American tradition of roots music, with visible ties to early blues and gospel. In 2000, Lemma recorded the soundtrack to Josef Fares' movie Jalla! Jalla! (which in turn rendered Lemma a Grammis nomination for best song, the romantic "If I Used to Love You"). Morning Train (2001) the album containing that single, went gold and served as a breakthrough to a wide audience. Daniel Lemma has since released several albums: Meeting at the Building (2003) and Dreamers and Fools (2005) on Warner Music, and on his own label Dextra Music: Somebody on Your Side (2007), Rebound (2009) Telescope (2012) Common Ground (2016), Punch Of Love (2019) Sörgårdens Tak ( 2021) On albums Common Ground and Punch Of Love, Lemma collaborates with reggae group Hot This Year Band for two sets of classic sounding roots reggae. In 2016 and 2021 Daniel recorded albums in his native Swedish language. First in 2016 a collection of poems by Swedish poet Karin Boye became the album ” Stjärnornas Tröst” produced by Fredrik Jonsson, and subsequently adapted to theatre. Then in 2021 Daniel released his first collection of self-penned songs in Swedish: ”Sörgårdens Tak” 2023 came " Addis" , Lemmas critically acclaimed collaboration with some of the most prominent musicians in Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba -traditional musicians as well as jazz musicians.