Artist: Christian Liljegren
Album: Melodic Passion
Label: Melodic Passion Records
Release Date: March 26th 2021
Genre: Classic Hard Rock

Description:
The vocalist and front man for bands such as Narnia, The Waymaker, Audiovision, Divinefire, Golden Resurrection, Wisdom Call, Flagship, Modest Attraction, and Borderline to name a few – Christian Liljegren turns 50 years in 2021, and celebrates his 35th anniversary as singer with nearly 40 albums under his belt.

The intention with this album was to go back to Christian’s musical roots, where he started to listen to music late in the 1970’s. You can hear Christian’s biggest music influences from bands such as Rainbow, The Sweet, Uriah Heep, Queen, Stryper and Europe, as well as favorite singers like Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P), Brian Connolly (R.I.P), David Byron (R.I.P), Freddie Mercury (R.I.P), John Lawton, John Miles, Michael Sweet, and Joey Tempest.

This is also Christian’s debut as music composer, since all music on this album is composed by Christian and Stephen Carlson (Brotthogg, The Rise, Tales, Gil Edwards), an amazing guitarist from Sweden who now lives in Norway. Christian has written all lyrics, vocal melodies and arrangements, and co-produced the album with his good friends Viktor Stenqvist (Narnia’s sound engineer), and Olov Andersson (Audiovision, Veni Domine and keyboard player on this album).

Influences for the Album:
Rainbow, The Sweet, Uriah Heep, Queen, Stryper, Europe

Bio:
Vocalist and songwriter Christian Liljegren started his music career in 1986 and the list is long of different bands he has been involved in. In 1996 he formed Narnia together with guitarist CJ Grimmark and the band have reached huge success and released many albums and toured around the world. Last album From Darkness To Light topped the charts in Sweden and got rave reviews worldwide and a great tour in South America with Stryper and more.

Christian has also reached success with Divinefire together with Jani Stefanovic especially in Japan. They are now back working together this time also with Jani´s wife Katja Stefanovic and they are calling themselves The Waymaker and their debut album got fantastic good feedback worldwide.

Other bands and album Christian have been involved in are Audiovision, Golden Resurrection, Wisdom Call, Borderline, Modest Attraction, Flagship and he has done a couple of albums in Swedish under his own name.

The Melodic Passion album is the first album where Christian is involved in every moment of the album such as composing all the songs together with Stephen Carlson and been writing all the lyrics and also as producer together with Olov Andersson & Viktor Stenqvist.

The lineup consists of musicians that have been involved and/or are active in bands like Royal Hunt, Astrakhan, Avatarium, Audiovision, House of Shakira, Neptune, Narnia, Rob Rock & Pain of Salvation.

“Melodic Passion” will be released in March 2021 on Melodic Passion Records!

Band Line-up:
Christian Liljegren: Lead & backing vocals
Stephen Carlsson: Guitars
Olov Andersson: Keyboards
Andreas “Habo” Johansson: Drums
Per Schelander: Bass

CD Tracklist:
1- Melodic Passion
2- Salute For The King
3- The Rock
4- This Is My Love Song
5- The Victory
6- Dead Or Alive
7- I Breathe
8- History
9- Third Day
10- My King (Bonus track on LP)

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https://melodicpassion.com/