Vincent Pontare

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Vincent
Background information
Birth name Vincent Pontare
Born (1980-05-13) May 13, 1980
Origin Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden
Genres Pop
Occupations Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Musician
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2006–present
Labels Little Stereo Recordings
Website vincentmusic.net

Vincent Pontare mostly known as Vincent (born 13 May 1980 in Solna, Stockholm County) is a Swedish singer and songwriter.

Career

After studying music in Örnsköldsvik he moved to Stockholm to study music production for a year at Memus.

His debut album Lucky Thirteen was released in Sweden in November 2007 and with the title he pays tribute to his birthday on 13 May and plays with the contradiction of the classic unlucky number.

Since the breakthrough with "Don't Hate on Me" which was played frequently in a TV commercial for a mobile company Pontare has had time to shoot a video for the song "Miss Blue" in Los Angeles starring supermodel Anine Bing.

Pontare wrote most of his songs himself and co-produced all the songs on the album. To promote the album he went on tour and performed around 100 gigs.[1]

In 2010 Vincent released "Baby Hurricane", the first single from his forthcoming second album.

Songwriter / Producer

Pontare is also involved in music writing and production.
In 2013 he co-wrote the Avicii singles ‘Hey Brother’ and ‘You Make Me', Katy Perry's 'Love Me' (from PRISM) and Galantis' single 'Smile'.
Pontare has during 2013 also co-written and produced Veronica Maggio's album ‘Handen i fickan fast jag bryr mig’ and Petter's album 'Början på allt', together with Magnus Lidehäll and Salem Al Fakir.

He has also written songs for Swedish House Mafia,[2] most notably in "Save the World". Other successful songs that he have written are amongst others "Kick Out The Epic Motherf**cker" (Dada Life), "Hungry Hearts" (Nause), "Reload" (Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash) and "Younger" (Seinabo Sey).

Personal life

Vincent Pontare is the son of Roger Pontare[3] and Elisabeth Pontare. His father is a Swedish musician who took part in Eurovision Song Contest twice representing Sweden with "Stjärnorna" (1994, in a duet with Marie Bergman) and "When Spirits Are Calling My Name" (2000), placing 13th and 7th, respectively in the competition.

Vincent spent part of his childhood in the United States in Tennessee. Vincent has two brothers, Jimmy Åkerlund his senior and Viktor his junior.[4] He presently resides in Vasastan in Stockholm.

Vincent began dating Swedish singer Agnes Carlsson in 2009. The couple's engangement was announced in April 2013.[5]

Discography

Albums

Year Album Peak
position
(SWE)		 Certification
2007 Lucky Thirteen
  • Release date: 7 November 2007
  • Label: Little Stereo Recordings
  • Singles:
    • 2006: "Paradise"
    • 2007: "Don't Hate on Me"
    • 2007: "Miss Blue"
25
2011 Godspeed
  • Release date: 29 August 2011
  • Label: Little Stereo Recordings
  • Distribution: Warner Music Sweden
  • Singles:
    • 2010: "Baby Hurricane"
    • 2011: "The Moment I Met You"
    • 2011: "Put Your Money Where Your Money Is"

Singles

Year Single Peak
position		 Album
SWE[6] FIN GER SWI
2006 "Paradise" 23 –  –  – Lucky Thirteen
2007 "Don't Hate on Me" 7  –  –  –
"Miss Blue" 6 19 39 23
2008 "This Is for You"  –  – 74 – Non album release
2010 "Baby Hurricane" Godspeed
2011 "The Moment I Met You"
"Put Your Money Where Your Money Is"

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thismustbepop.com/2010/12/question-time-with-vincent.html
  2. ↑ Vincent Pontare väljer att göra allt (in Swedish)
  3. ↑ Musikhörnan; Vincent Pontare, 2007-10-09 (Swedish)
  4. ↑ Allehanda.se: Vincent är laddad för vintern (in Swedish)
  5. ↑ http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/klick/article16616726.ab
  6. ↑ http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Vincent+%5BSE%5D

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