Pia Fridhill

It's funny how strongly I connected to my grandma Anna-Lisa - it was like we were one and the same person, born to live out different decades. When she died I felt like the earth opened beneath me and…

Jens proposed to me on the mountain hike in the region of Jämtland in the north of Sweden. After days of walking, eating, putting up the tent and sleeping, waking up, eating, walking…our minds had entered into that state when…

(by Svan, social media promoter for Pia Fridhill) This is a very special time for me because we’re officially releasing “I still dance” via Pias website! The story behind the song?

Back in September 2020 I asked Jens if…

In 2005/2006 Jens had a sabbatical from his job as an English & Spanish teacher in Mönchengladbach, Germany. This is when we moved from Cologne to Kall in the German Eifel where we live now but first, we tried living…

How a blues samba with a message was born
 

Because I’m Swedish and we live in Germany, we spend our summer holidays in a small red summer cottage in Sweden. It’s pretty close to my family so that everyone…

(by Pia Fridhill) They claim there are lots of songs about running but most of them only use 'run' or 'running' as a metaphor for freedom, escape, a state of mind, being chased or chasing after something or someone: Born…

(by Pia Fridhill) More seldom than not I read a book that I'll never forget, a book that touches the innermost of my being, either with its poetic and beautiful language like Alice Walkers 'The Color Purple' or with its…

(by Pia Fridhill) The year 2002 was the beginning of our musical career, the beginning of our marriage and the beginning of our songwriting learning process. We'd met the British blues- & jazz veteran John C. Marshall, moved to Cologne…

(by Pia Fridhill) For 'Soul Cooking' I spent many months collecting lines, rhymes and phrases about our two favourite occupations: cooking and music. I thought it would be a fitting theme for a funky song and I had this…

(by Pia Fridhill) Jens loves to fiddle new song ideas on his guitar while watching football (soccer). One of his ideas, an instrumental piece in the style of melodious finger picking guitar, had accompanied him during hundreds of football matches…