![]() Jag har alla fina dagar kvar / I have all my beautiful days left to live Jag är skör och jag är oslagbar / I am fragile and invincible “Stark och sårbar / Strong and vulnerable” It’s the end of a chapter, but also the start of something new. Then in 2019 I gave up teaching and released my first album, Stark och Sårbar. In the darkness that followed this year, the songs “Deala inte” and “En Hinning till Anton” took shape, and it felt so good! I started releasing songs by myself and for myself, but they actually gained a bit of attention. You are regularly challenged as a human, but if you don’t get any rest it easily becomes too much. In 2016, I faced what I now call my “year of challenges”. Life skills and creativity – that’s the kind of teacher I wanted to be! Instead, I studied to become an art and after-school teacher. And then I did what you’re “supposed to do” – played in a band, lived in a collective, and all that jazz, but I didn’t write anything for around five years. That was the first time I found myself in an environment where I could explore and challenge this part of myself. Then when I was 20 I started a singer-songwriter program focusing on folk music. I used to sit so I could see the driveway in front of our house so I could quickly put away the guitar when my parents got home. I mostly played in secret in my room and I wouldn’t play if anyone was home. I used to have pens and brushes but now I had melodies and music to express my thoughts and feelings. I only really knew the basic chords – G, D, and the cheat-version of an F.Īs I grew older, music slowly became another creative instrument in my toolbox. I felt it was too mathematical or academic, I think. I played some guitar, but I never learned how to read music. ![]() Instead, I used painting and drawing as my creative tools. I didn’t pursue singing seriously until I was in my late teens. I sang when I was bathing, drawing, playing – I bet my family wished they could mute me! I didn’t necessarily grow up in a musical family, but I’ve been told I was never quiet as a kid. It all just fell into place.Ĭan you tell me about your musical journey? How did we end up with Moonica Mac? When we wrapped up the conversation someone said “Well good luck with Moonica Mac then,” and I felt it as if she entered the room at that very moment. When I had started writing a bit of music I got the question “So what sound are you looking for?” and I hadn’t thought about it a lot but I said that it could be cool to mix Fleetwood Mac, Emmylou Harris, and Monica Zetterlund. The name Moonica Mac came to me by chance. You should be able to feel whatever you are feeling, but try your hardest not to lose yourself in the process. I guess you could say that she’s born out of self-respect, which is also what she’s fighting for, both music-wise as well as in life. I think Moonica has become a way for me to be less critical of myself. I think the biggest difference between us is that Lisa doesn’t necessarily want to take center stage, but Moonica loves it! She’s not made up, she’s just a part of me that sometimes shines through. Who is Moonica Mac, and how does she differ from Lisa? We met up with Lisa Brolander, the woman behind Moonica Mac, to talk about song-writing, canceled shows, and the troubles of being human: With her soft voice, contemplative aura, and deeply personal lyrics she has shown that folk-music is not dead, but is very much needed in a world that doesn’t leave enough space for reflection. Moonica Mac – the new Swedish queen of folk – has enchanted listeners from all walks of life, fast becoming a Scandinavian woman musician we love by offering solace to the heartbroken and carefully putting the feelings that we prefer to hide from view into words.
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