"I like many different genres. The important thing is that the music experience feels genuine and believable for both me and the audience. By welding together creative expressions such as music, videography and stories I want to establish an incredibly powerful feeling that moves people."
Wilhelm Fredlund was born in Uppsala, Sweden in the year 2001. He began his musical journey at the age of 8 with playing flute for Sweden's perhaps best recorder flutist Per Gross.
As an 11-year-old, Wilhelm switched to alto saxophone where he was classically schooled by Lars-Erik "Lidas" Lidström. In the same year, Wilhelm won the national school competition to design Sweden's Olympic Logo. The Swedish Olympic Committee gave one of Sweden's greatest Olympians the mission of congratulating him with pomp and circumstance, which was noticed in the Swedish media.
A couple of years later he began taking lessons for Oskar Forsberg as well as Olle Thunström and was then introduced to jazz music where he gained a greater understanding of musical harmonies, rhythms and tonality. Wilhelm learned to improvise over different genres and also started playing tenor saxophone, as a second main instrument. As secondary instruments he plays soprano and baritone saxophone, as well as clarinet, flute, piano and guitar.
Developing theoretical knowledge in music combined with practical improvisation gave him the possibility of arranging existing and self-written music. An area that today contains plenty of still unpublished raw music material. In 2024, songs from the private catalog will begin to be released on the commercial music market.
