Mikkel Solnado - It's Only Love Give It Away
ARTIST........: Mikkel Solnado
TITLE.........: It's Only Love Give It Away
LABEL.........: Farol
URL...........: http://www.mikkelsolnado.com
GENRE.........: Indie / Pop / Singer-Songwriter
QUALITY:......: 254 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo
RIP DATE......: 2013-08-16
RELEASE DATE..: 2012-04-00
Tracklist:
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01. Back to Life 3:11
02. Trouble 3:32
03. Como o fado 3:45
04. I wanna know you 3:36
05. Imagine 3:06
06. Life is life 2:44
07. In a war 3:51
08. My Lady 2:50
09. Apologize 3:47
10. Lose you 3:42
11. We can do anything 3:17
12. Back to Life (The Fox ft. Mikkel Solnado) 7:42
13. Back to Life (Dave Spritz Remix) 8:21
14. Back to Life (Stoj Remix) 3:41
Total 57:05
Release Notes:
Mikkel Solnado was born October 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark to the Son of
Portuguese Actor Raul Solnado and his Danish Mother, Hanne Louise.. At 6 months
old the family relocated to Portugal.
It was at the early age of 11 in Portugal, Mikkel first found the band Iron
Maiden and was fascinated by the band's drummer, Nicko McBrain. Mikkel┤s father
recognised his passion and helped build his first studio in the house where he
first learned to play drums. Mikkel┤s first band in Portugal was called Husk
where he played drums, sang and wrote the lyrics. Wanting to move on from just
playing playing drums Mikkel decided to pick up the guitar and began writing
lyrics and composing melodies.
In 1995, the promise of a more free and artistic lifestyle, not found in
Portugal, brought his Family back to Denmark.Since moving back to his native
country Mikkel lived the life he craved. He held various jobs including bars,
nursery schools, support for youths at risk but it was his music at night that
was developing his career path. The style Mikkel developed led him to start
developing compositions for other musicians, especially hip-hop, writing songs
for children's television programs, as well as voice-overs, and music sound
design for online games for kids . After years of playing in Various Rock and
Death Metal Bands Mikkel began working on producing "Gabriel Flies" and in 2006
this was the name given to the band that joined from 2007 to 2010. It was this
period that enhanced Mikkel┤s Production experience launching him into
Professional Producer status while the team wrote jingles, songs, commercials
and developed a better understanding of how the music industry worked.
"We Can Do Anything" was the first single to launch Mikkel into the limelight.
It started as a television ad for Volkswagen, but that quickly led people to
call the ad agency to ask where they could buy the song. It was then that the
agency proposed to help the musician and his band, and offered them a chance to
record a video clip in Colombia. Suddenly a song written for an advert helped
change Mikkel┤s direction once again and Mikkel followed his passion to play
again..The Monopolies and bureaucracy in Danish Radio at the time and the band┤s
differences in opinion of directions led Mikkel to move on to a solo career.
With the death of his father, Raul Solnado in August 2009, the musician
experienced a turnaround in his life and career. In Portugal, Mikkel┤s friend
Andre Cerqueira presented the song "We Can Do anything "on Commercial Radio and
Mikkel found success.Tired of living in Denmark, he decided to return to
Portugal especially after falling in love. With the arrows pointing to the
destination Portugal, Mikkel Solnado moved to Lisbon, where he currently lives.
Inspired by artists like Bon Iver, Jeff Buckley, Coldplay and John Mayer, Mikkel
says his sound is noisy, dirty and dusty mixed with great melody. His career as
both Musician and Producer continues to grow..