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 Georg Wadenius, born May 4, 1945, has been a professional guitarist, composer, arranger and producer since 1968. He first became known in his native country, Sweden, through his work with the group "Made in Sweden" and for his children's songs. He was also early on one of the most sought after studio players in Stockholm.
He was then hired by "Blood, Sweat and Tears" and moved to the USA and played with them for 3,5 years (1972-5). Later on he became a member of the "Saturday Night Live" band (1979-85) and in the 1980‘s he was one of the 4-5 most used session guitarists in New York, playing on records by Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Donald Fagen, Michael Franks, Joe Thomas, Backstreet Boys and countless others.
He also toured briefly with Roberta Flack (‘80), Luther Vandross (‘81), Simon and Garfunkel (‘82) and Steely Dan (‘94).
In the mid 90s GW returned to Scandinavia, where he lives in Oslo, Norway. He is still playing as much as ever and touring with his jazz trio or quartet. He has released a few albums - "Interloop" with Magnus Lindgren (2005) and two more albums with children’s songs - "Zzoppa" (1999) and "Hajar Du"(2005).. He also completed an album (Gewadoka) with the amazing composer/artist Doug Katsaros in 1997.
He has also produced several albums with various Scandinavian artists (Silje Nergaard, Lisa Ekdahl, Jan Eggum, Sigvart Dagsland, Rita Eriksen, Anne Grete Preus, Anne Sofie von Otter among others).
He is currently the Music Director at the Polar Music Prize concert.
GW has received 5 Grammies over the years and just about any music award that you could think of in Sweden (Hagström Prize, Guitar People Prize and the Cornelis Prize).
"Jul På Svenska" (Swedish Christmas) with Arild Andersen and Jan Lundgren was recorded in 2009, and it received rave reviews. Dagens Nyheter wrote that "it is the only Christmas album you need to have"!
In the fall of 2010 Georg released the album named "Reconnection", featuring various vocal artists, notably Frida (of ABBA fame), Nina Persson, Andreas Kleerup, Peter Jöback, Helen Sjöholm, Nicolai Dunger, Rita Eriksen and Silje Nergaard, where his characteristic guitar playing is at the center.
He also recorded a live album with the group 'GEJOMA' (with Jonas Holgersson and Mattias Svensson), which was released only on vinyl (to begin with) in early 2011. They will do a lot of touring in 2012 and play with his old friends, Lou Marini (B.S&T, Blues Bros, SNL Bnd) and Lew Soloff (B.S&T), in August.
Georg has currently finished writing music for a Children's play - "Teddy og Marian" for Norwegian Riksteatret and he is planning a couple of Children's projects as well as recording a second Christmas album and an album with psalms (with Trio X).
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