Tomas Per Andersson, known professionally as Tomas Andersson Wij, was born in
1972 in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in the southern suburbs of Fruängen and
Sköndal. His early career combined journalism and music; from 1990 to 1997 he
wrote for Svenska Dagbladet, Pop, and Nöjesguiden, in the mid-1990s he served as
editor of the TV programme Knesset on ZTV, and he also worked for Sveriges Radio
in 2000. His first musical breakthrough came with a 1995 demo that attracted
producer Lars Halapi, leading to the release of Ebeneser in 1998 and his
breakthrough album Ett slag för digin 2...