(1959-01-12) 12 January 1959 (age 65) Halmstad, Sweden
Genres
Pop
rock
dance
Occupation(s)
Musician
songwriter
Instrument(s)
Vocals
guitar
Years active
1976–present
Labels
EMI
Sony
Fundamental
Formerly of
Roxette
Gyllene Tider
Musical artist
Per Håkan Gessle (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈpæːrˈhôːkanˈɡɛ̂sːlɛ]ⓘ; born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was disbanded after her death in 2019. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and topped the charts in the US four times, most notably with "It Must Have Been Love" which was featured in the film Pretty Woman. Prior to the formation of Roxette, he had a successful career in his native Sweden as the frontman for Gyllene Tider. The band released three number-one albums during the early 1980s but disbanded shortly after their fourth album, The Heartland Café (1984).
In-between periods in Roxette and Gyllene Tider reunions, Gessle recorded numerous solo albums, both in Swedish and English. After Fredriksson's illness in 2002 he released Mazarin (2003). The album was a critical and commercial success for Gessle and started the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the backing vocalist Helena Josefsson. With Fredriksson's continued treatment and recuperation he made three more albums, Son of a Plumber (2005), En händig man (A handy man, 2007) and Party Crasher (2008). After Roxette's Neverending World Tour finished in 2015 he produced another set of solo efforts, En vacker natt (2017), En vacker dag (2017) and Small Town Talk (2018). In 2016 he started using the pseudonym Mono Mind, first releasing a few singles before delivering a full album, Mind Control, in 2019. Gessle was the main songwriter for both Roxette and Gyllene Tider.
Per Håkan Gessle (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpæːr ˈhôːkan ˈɡɛ̂sːlɛ] ; born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known...
group, formerly consisting of Marie Fredriksson (vocals and piano) and PerGessle (vocals and guitar). They are Sweden's second-best-selling music act after...
Swedish singer-songwriter PerGessle has released thirteen studio albums (including one as Son of a Plumber, one as Mono Mind, and one as PG Roxette),...
lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette, which she formed in 1986 with PerGessle. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)", is a song written by PerGessle and performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The power ballad became...
I'm really proud of it." —Gessle talking about "The Look" to Billboard magazine in 2015. "The Look" was written by PerGessle as an exercise while learning...
the lead vocalist in the band Sandy Mouche and has collaborated with PerGessle, Roxette, Arash Labaf, The Ark and various other Swedish musical projects...
written by PerGessle from Roxette with lyrics by Piret and Lenna. Broken Records International put the Vanilla Ninja girls in contact with PerGessle himself...
of Marie Fredriksson and PerGessle, who were both established artists in their home country prior to the duo forming. Gessle had experienced considerable...
The World According to Gessle is the third solo album by Swedish pop singer PerGessle, released on 2 May 1997. It was his first solo album in English...
Photography took 20 days and ended in April 2011. The soundtrack, by PerGessle of Roxette, was released on 17 April 2013. The film premiered at the South...
Roxette is a Swedish pop rock group, established by PerGessle in 2021. In September 2021, PerGessle, Helena Josefsson, Dea Norberg, Clarence Öfwerman...
by Roxette, a Swedish pop rock duo consisting of Marie Fredriksson and PerGessle. Released on 3 June 2016 by Roxette Recordings and Parlophone, it was...
singer Michael Bolton.[citation needed] On 2 May 2024, Roxette founder PerGessle announced Philipsson as the band's new female vocalist, replacing the...
All tracks are written by PerGessle, except tracks 3, 5 and 6 written by Gessle and Mats Persson; track 10 written by Gessle and Desmond Child Credits...
Att vara PerGessle (ISBN 91-0-011200-3) – (Being PerGessle) is a book, written by Swedish journalist Sven Lindström about Swedish pop-rock singer/songwriter...
singles, as well as fifty-two music videos. The duo, which consisted of PerGessle and Marie Fredriksson, are the second most commercially successful Swedish...
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