Swedish Chris

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alt="cmtitle.gif (13021 bytes)"> </p> <table width="480"> <tr> <td width="120"><p align="center"><img src="Images/onair.gif" width="96" height="18" alt="onair.gif (3887 bytes)"></td> <td width="260"><p align="center"><img src="Images/cmixer.gif" align="bottom" width="236" height="161"> </td> <td width="100"><p align="center"><font face="arial"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"># of visitors</font> </p> <p align="center"><img src="Images/counter.gif" align="bottom" width="90" height="20"> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><font face="arial"><font size="4" color="#00FF00"><em><strong>Who's this guy?</strong></em></font> </p> <p align="left"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">Who are the people that make a career out of they hobby? Are they just lucky? Do they have any exceptional talent or did they just happen to be at the right place at the right time? For me I'd like to think that it was a bit of both. </font></p> <p align="left"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">Months of practice with a belt driven Lenco turntable with strung-up weights finally paid off. In 1979 I got my first DJ-job at a small local club in my hometown in Sweden. In 1982 I moved with my family to Los Angeles. It was quite a step for a 16 year old, girlcrazed guy from Gävle. I wasnt exactly thrilled at the time, but looking back, I wouldnt trade it for a million bucks.</font></p> <table width="450"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><em><img src="Images/kroq.gif" align="bottom" width="69" height="69"></em></font></td> <td valign="top" width="370"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">My life in Californa started in a small community by the San Gabriel mountains called La Cañada. About right between Pasadena and Glendale. To my dads despair I tuned my room into a small studio and started making my own special mixes and radioshows. I tried to get a DJ-job at some nightclubs, but no luck. I was too young. Finally, I got my break from The Swedish Eagle at The World Famous KROQ. I had sent him a copy of my "Duran Duran-megamix", and before I knew it I was on Richard Blade's morning show at LAs #1 radio station. That morning I was nicknamed "Swedish Chris". </font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="450"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="335"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">I did lots of mixes for KROQ and became well known among their listeners. Most popular were my Megamixes. Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Thompson Twins, Heaven 17, the list goes on. You could say I was on the "cutting-edge", splicing up every song I could get my hands on, and it didn't take long before some record labels started to take notice. I teamed up with DJ-friend Boris Granich and Falco's "Rock me Amadeus" beacame our first "splice" to hit the charts. Our version   went straight to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 and we got our first gold record for sales exceeding 500 000 copies. </font></td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="115"><img src="Images/dave.jpg" align="bottom" width="92" height="113"><br> <font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><em>Depeche's Dave Gahan at KROQ</em></font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="450"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="110"><img src="Images/samfox.jpg" align="bottom" width="92" height="113"><br> <font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><em>Me & Samantha Fox at Power 106</em></font></td> <td valign="top" width="340"><font size="1"><font color="#FFFFFF">In spring of '86, a new station named Power 106 started pumping "a fresh new music mix" across Southern California. Me and Boris were asked to become special Powermix-DJ's in charge of remixing the stations hottest tunes. Within a year Power was #1 and our Power- and Clubmixes became trademarks of the station. We made mixes of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Roxette, Bobby Brown, Taylor Dayne... the list goes on. Boris & Chris was rockin´ the mix.</font> </font><p align="right"><font size="1"><img src="Images/power.jpg" align="bottom" width="65" height="43"></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="450"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="325"><font size="1"><font color="#FFFFFF">We started doing special dance mixes for the labels. In 1986 we got another #1 U.S.-hit with our  remix of Paula Abdul's "Straight Up". This one went platinum! More mixes followed. Boy George, Jody Watley, Rod Stewart, Depeche Mode, Trans X, and yet another platinum for Bobby Brown. We did a few swedish acts too. Like Lili & Susie, Style, Trance Dance and Lena Philipson.</font> <br> <font color="#FFFFFF"><br> Don't ask me how, but I did all the radio, remixing and DJ-ing on my spare time. I was still in school! From High School I went on to Pasadena City College studying Graphic Arts and Marketing for a couple of years. I continued at California State University at Northridge and got my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Marketing. I graduated Cum Laude in 1988. God, I'm proud of myself!</font>  </font></td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="125"><p align="center"><img src="Images/bobby.jpg" align="bottom" width="103" height="140"><br> <font size="1"><font color="#FFFFFF"><em>Boris & Chris getting platinum.</em></font> </font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="450"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="235"><font color="#FFFFFF"><img src="Images/abc.jpg" align="bottom" width="222" height="118"><br> <font size="1"><em>ABC, Pepsi & Shirley and me at Powerhouse IV in Hollywood (where else?).</em></font></font></td> <td valign="top" width="215"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">So what am I doing back in Sweden? Sure, life in California was great. When it was good - it was really GOOD! Sunshine, beaches, girls, parties, nighclubs, sneak previews, showbiz and a bit of fame. Hey, I was "Swedish Chris". Forget the earthquakes - more people die from shoveling snow in Sweden every year. But somehow I still wanted to go back and see what life in Sweden was like. And then one summer I met Marie - the girl that later became my wife. That's it! </font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">Back in Sweden I couldn't just let all my radio experience go to waste. But Sweden didn't have any commercial radio yet. It was still ILLEGAL !!! So I got myself a job as an AD at local advertising firm and a part time job at Swedish Radio P4 (public service). Naturally I kept spinning records every weekend (something I still like to do). Finally in 1993 commercial radio became a reality and in December of that year I was in charge of putting RIX 105 on the air. Today I'm still the Station Manager and believes "radio is not a job - its a way of life". Need I say that my station is #1 in the market?</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">Take it easy! Chris. </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><a href="http://www.tf-medianet.com/meta/rix/live.ram"><img src="Images/rix105.jpg" align="bottom" border="0" width="142" height="29"><br> </a></font><font size="2" color="#FFFF00">Listen to RIX live with Real Audio</font><font color="#FFFFFF"><br> <font size="1">Broadcast of RIX 104,2 Umeå</font></font> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </body>