David Myhr

Biography

David Myhr was born in Piteå 1970. He studied at The School of Music in Piteå and was awarded the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Music Education in 1994. As a teenager, already a leading Beatles expert (competing on Swedish national TV on the subject in 1988), it was only natural that as his degree project he – together with professor KG Johansson and Mikael Långs – organized the concert production Sgt Pepper Live (1994). It was staged in Piteå, Luleå, Stockholm and Liverpool and was broadcast on Swedish TV. Myhr played the role of Paul McCartney. The project also led to meeting the Beatles record producer George Martin. After university Myhr moved to Stockholm and took on a career as a freelancing musician and music business entrepeneur, starting his own music production company. He was also engaged as a Creative Manager at Sony/ATV Music Publishing. His main artistic output during the 90's was the internationally acclaimed power pop band The Merrymakers, which released the albums No Sleep 'til Famous (1995) and Bubblegun (1997). On the latter Myhr co-wrote and worked with one of his biggest sources of inspiration, Andy Sturmer from the American band Jellyfish. With The Merrymakers he achieved international success, mainly in Japan where the albums sold over 100,000 copies, and put in several appearances in the U.S. where the records were also released. Today David Myhr is a solo artist in his own name and his solo debut album, named Soundshine, was pre-released in Japan in December 2011. Following the release Myhr travelled over for a promotional tour of Japan including live performances in Osaka and Tokyo. The album was then released in Europe in March 2012 followed by performances in among other places Piteå, Stockholm, Madrid, London and New York.

Research Interest

Musical Performance