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Björn Ulvaeus, Songwriter / Producer, ABBA member and\r\nco-founder of Music Rights Awareness Foundation.

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Björn Ulvaeus is a Swedish songwriter, musician,\r\nsinger, guitarist, producer and a member of the Swedish musical group\r\nABBA. Björn’s songs, co-written with his ABBA partner and close friend\r\nBenny Andersson, became some of the most famous hits of all times, selling more\r\nthan 400 million records all over the world. Björn was co-composer of the\r\nmusicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!, and he co-produced the\r\nfilms Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with Benny Andersson.\r\n Björn has also been a longstanding tireless advocate for authors’ rights.\r\nTogether with Max Martin and Niclas Molinder, he launched “Music Rights Awareness\r\nFoundation” to help creators around the globe better understand their\r\nrights. Björn also operates many successful businesses.

Member of ABBA and Co-Founder, Music Rights Awareness Foundation, Sweden

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Co-Founder and CEO, Session, Stockholm

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Poundo Gomis, Artist

Self-proclaimed storyteller, the\r\nFranco-Senegalese singer and songwriter is armed with an endearing charisma and\r\nmysticism that instantly captivates her audience. Based between New York and\r\nParis, Poundo creates a unique sound blending trap/drill sounds with Mandingo\r\nmusic, reflecting her multilingual upbringing in Paris and her life in the\r\nUnited States. It was there where the\r\ncomplexity of the Black experience led her to musically reconnect with her\r\nGuinean-Senegalese heritage by integrating English and her mother tongue\r\n(Mandjak) into her music. She will also\r\nsing French in her new project. She\r\nbelieves that a woman armed with ancestral knowledge is an unstoppable force.

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Ilira Gashi, Singer / Songwriter

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Ilira grew up in\r\nSwitzerland from Kosovo/Albanian roots. Coming from a quiet and isolated\r\nvillage near Bern, she had no contacts to the music industry or many other\r\nmusicians at all. She approached music by buying a hip hop beat online, adding\r\nIndian folk samples and writing a pop song over it. Shortly after, Ilira was\r\ndiscovered on SoundCloud her to move to Berlin for almost 10 years where she\r\nmet her creative and commercial success, also signing her first publishing\r\ndeal.

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Now Ilira shows her\r\nauthentic side and devotes herself to her true identity and her heartfelt sound\r\ncompletely disconnected from mainstream success and expectations. Ilira's first\r\nEP titled \"Never Really the End\" will be out in 2023, featuring\r\nintimate and personal topics from her turbulent and chaotic life. Intercultural\r\nproblems, identity issues, loneliness, lovesickness, sensitivity, life as a\r\nwoman in the music business, all this offers fertile ground for all the songs\r\nthat have remained unheard until now.

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Being an incredibly\r\nprolific writer she has written each and everyone of her songs while also\r\nselling them to DJs and EDM artists, where she often features with. Her true\r\nheart though will always be alternative pop rock.

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Ilira music is often\r\nplayed on SRF who also invite her often to shows. She's been invited to the\r\nSwiss Music Awards as well as at many major Swiss festivals, Gurtenfestival,\r\nRock am Weier, the Montreux Jazz Festival and Open Air Gampel with Stephanie\r\nHeinzmann, and performed at Energy Air in Thun.

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In the meanwhile\r\nshe finds London as her new nesting ground where she spends most of her time\r\nsongwriting and gardening.

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Gabriel Zufferey, Pianist / Composer

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From eight to\r\nsixteen years of age, Gabriel Zufferey studied at the Conservatoire de Musique\r\nde Geneve, and from twelve to fourteen at AMR, an association of jazz and\r\nimprovised music.

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He starts playing\r\nconcerts at the early age of 12. At the\r\nages of 14 and 15, he receives the prize for the \"most promising\r\nperformer\" granted by SACEM at the City of Paris' Martial Solal jazz piano\r\ncompetition and the \"jury's special prize\" at the solo piano\r\ncompetition of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

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As a youngster, he\r\nalready performs his own compositions and releases at 19 his first album Après\r\nl'orage in trio. Follows, a few years later, Hear & kNow in quartet and\r\nContemplation, recorded solo in an isolated mountain village.

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This album draws\r\nthe attention of the New York City Jazz Record, and some renowned musicians\r\nagree on the highly personal quality of his music. These three albums receive\r\nall 4 stars from Jazzman/Jazzmagazine (France)

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Alongside his\r\nactivities as a concert artist and composer, he is also involved in teaching\r\nand in pedagogical researches.

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In his current\r\nmusical projects, in addition to forays into classical music and traditional\r\nGnawa music, he continues to pay homage to the music of the great pianist Bill\r\nEvans. Gabriel Zufferey reharmonizes some of his pieces and dives ever deeper\r\ninto this rich, intimate universe. The concerts he offers today reflect his\r\nattachment to this immense artist.

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