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We've lost a track of the latest episodes of "Moraeus med mera" that had more than worthy line-ups all the time though. Today Andreas Johnson and Tove Styrke performing their latest singles couldn't leave us silent so here are the most interesting performances of the last month from Sanna Nielsen, Charlotte Perrelli, Daniel Adams-Ray, Serenades, Lisa Misovsky, BAO singing ABBA-classics and Veronica Maggio performing with Benny Andersson.

Last night results of Rockbjörnen-2011 voting were announced. Veronica Maggio can be considered as the biggest winner of the night winning Best song and Best female artist. As we expected all pop-boys were left without Best male artist and it's gone to Håkan Hellström. The Ark, Mando Diao and Daniel Adams-Ray were another Swedish winners. Below you can check whole list and some live performances - mini-gigs of Danny and The Ark, Salem al Fakir in his new music project Earpony, Amanda Mair singing canidates for the Best song nominee and Magnus Carlson with his recent cover of "Från och med Du".

Seems like since last year's "Ta Min Hand" we didn't have any bunch of Swedish artists gathering to perform some charity song so we've got such case now.
Tove Styrke, Amanda Jenssen, Daniel Adams-Ray, Jasmine Kara, Timbuktu, Pauline, Petter and many other artists united as Kedjan have recorded song "Ringar på vattnet", all income from sales will go to Somalis suffering from famine catastrophe in the Horn of Africa.
Talking about "Ringar på vattnet" it's nothing more that just a pleasant calm hip-hop track with soft melodic choruses but with its emotional background story it turns worth checking.

Pop-sensation of last year Daniel Adams-Ray releases forth single "Förlåt Att Jag Aldrig Sagt Förlåt" from his debut album "Svart Vitt Och Allt Däremellan" causing such a big buzz in Sweden.
Initially song was released on the album as piano-based emotional ballad with symphonic arrangement and single version has become much more electronic and mysterious - something that would be fantastic Christmas single and even the video with Daniel wandering in the dark under the falling snow makes this impression stronger.
Really enjoyable magic track that can be another good shot for Daniel.

It's not really normal when all 10 tracks of just released album immediately get to Top-50 of iTunes-chart, right? In this case it feels like we have a deal with sensation and name of this sensation is Daniel Adams-Ray.
27-year-old Daniel was born Kenya and has Indonesian, Scottish and Swedish roots, his family moved to Sweden when he was 14. Later in school he has met his future partner by successful rap-duo Snook - Oskar Linnros, together they've managed to release two albums and stopped activity in 2006. This year Oskar came back with #1 hit "Från och med du" and Top-2 album but surprisingly Daniel has provided another #1 hit "Gubben i lådan" and his just released album "Svart, Vitt och Allt Däremellan" can become even bigger success than Oskar's one.
In common Daniel's album has a lot common with Oskar Linnros' album, much more than you could expect from two pieces of old project decided to make solo-career. Albums could be actually two parts of one, even talking about covers Daniel is shown with painted skin just like Oskar and in common similarity already says about very good level of "Svart Vitt Och Allt Däremellan". I would call this album mix of Salem-smelling uplifting and warm melodies ("Svart", "Lilla Lady"), gentle touching tracks with amazing instrumentals ("Voyeuren", "Förlåt Att Jag Aldrig Sagt Förlåt"), Veronica Maggio-styled sweet small "Vitt", epic "Gryningspyromanen" and loads of life-asserting dynamic songs like previous singles "Dum Av Dig" and "Gubben I Lådan" or "Medan Vi Faller". Daniel's voice sounds a bit softer and manner is a bit rappier than Oskar's so however you get personality of this album as quite different but still if you like "Vilja Bli" you're gonna love this one also, it's all about pure artistry, gentle melodies and delicate aesthetics.