Sofia Ullman

I think I am a real Music nerd

Sofia — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:05:16 +0000

I had a meeting with my artist coach Micke Nystedt yesterday. It was about 8 month since we had our last meeting. I told him after the last meeting that I had some ideas that I wanted to try out before seeing him again. One of those ideas was to go to the audition to ”Talent 2012″. The thing was that there is no ”Talent 2012″, they put it down to create other entertainment programs. So my plan was crached. During the Autumn my music career was quite on hold. But now in the spring something happened that broke the ice, I had some performances, a music video is coming up and some secret projects, hihi.
On Tuesday I will play classical music at a funeral. It was quite long since I sang classical songs so I have practiced a lot on my classical voice. Mostly I sing in the popgenre. This weekend I try to have a weekend without practicing at all, just because I want to see what else I can do. It is really difficult. When I visit people I never see the difference in their houses (if they even changed colours on the walls). The only thing I see is if they have any instruments at home. I call myself a real music nerd! But I am proud to be one!

Performance at the Opera House

Sofia — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:03:20 +0000

I should have written the day after my performance but the thing is that I got a bad cold and it was worse the day after….
On Tuesday I had the performance at the Opera House in Stockholm. Some hours before going there I was at home feeling quite sick. I got a bad cold and wondered if I would be able to perform at all. I had, fever, cough and runny nose…. But – stubborn as I am – I decided to go through with it. I got there at six for a soundcheck. As soon as I saw the nice wiew of the Sea outside the window and the lovely piano, my cold felt like gone with the wind for awhile. The Sound Engineer did a good job putting up a mic, mixertable and set the sound. The piano I was playing at was really lovely, especially with that wiew! After the sound was set I sat and waited awhile and soon I heard the sound of a voice from the room next to mine. It was the voice of the swedish singer Lisa Nilsson (Himlen runt hörnet). She did her soundcheck before her performance that would take place there in a couple uf hours.
At seven the politicians came and I started to play. I played covers and my own material, mostly calm songs. The politicians were mingeling arond and talking. At eight I had a brake and then I started again after Lisa Nilsson was done with her performance at eleven. I continued playing covers and my own material. At the end I felt the cold and played some instumental piano solos to save my voice. I was supposed to play til twelwe but since the politicians came back from the Lisa Nilsson gig a little bit later I continued my performance later, til halv past twelwe. It was quite long performance and I´m amazed what the body can do. Even though I was really ill before I started to play, it was like my body ”put itself togheter” and thought ”I can do this”. I don´t think anyone could here I got a cold.
The day after I was a little bit worse but today it´s Saturday and I´m almost well now.
Yesterday they called me from Fonus Funeral Company and told me one of their employees was really impressed with my insert this Friday when I played at a funeral. She told me they had about 400 funerals a week so it was really remarcable that he had recommended me. I was of course really happy to hear that. Tonight I´ll relax and make sure to be completely well so that I can sing again…

Performance at the Opera house in Stockholm tonight

Sofia — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:44:39 +0000

Tonight I´m playing the piano and singing for politicians at the Opera House in Stockholm.
I will play the whole nigtht from seven til eight and then from ten til twelwe. The thing is that I´ve got a cold so I have to take it easy and rest a while before the great Enterteinment. I think it will go neverless great anyway, cause that´s what I decided. I will bring a lot of songs: covers, my own material, and instrumental pianosongs.
My new businesscards just arrived so I can hand them out tonight.
Well, now I will go sleep for two hours and then have some tea before going to the soundcheck.

Going on right now

Sofia — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:34:19 +0000

Right now is a week off from work and activities. That gives me even more time for the music. I have some musical assignments that I have to preper. Tomorrow I will play on a funeral. I will play Sicillienne by Maria Theresia on flute and sing a ”Make me smile” by Steve Harley, and some other flutemusic. On Tuesday I will perform for politicians, I will have about three hours to sing and play so I preper a lot for it this week. I also want my voice to be in a good shape for performances so I practise a lot to a ”warm up your voice” cd.
Besides that I´m very into filmmusic right now. I wrote an instrumental works this morning and I sang the part of the strings out loud together with my piano Accompaniment. I have always loved filmmusic so I will continue with the work tomorrow, with a clear head. Sometimes I have so many tones that I have to wait until I´m more ”empty as a blank paper” again.

About the weekend

Sofia — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:54:35 +0000

I am very frustrated right now. My Cubase doesn´t work. Cubase is the music program where I record all my songs. I have a job that I really need to do so I hope it will be fixed soon. I am not tecnical at all so I´m glad to have a tecnical brother.
I´ve got some new performances coming up. Some of theese jobs comes from a booking agency and some I got from contacts. They are not public, but for specially invited guests.
This Friday I had a nice meeting with Christoofer Lindberg, he works at Kotte Management. (They have artists like Eldkvarn, Micke Rickfors and tommy Nilsson) He takes care of artists, their jobs and performances and helps them to get things right and he also work with their image.
So since he was in Stockholm we met in town. We talked about the music business and what is happening right now in the music world. It´s so interesting to here him speak about his work. He seem to do a fantastic job with theese artists! That was a good meeting and we will see what happens next in the music world….
Soon I will go to sleep cause tomorrow is another day of practice. Good night you night owls!

Life goes through so many shades

Sofia — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:45:19 +0000

One day you are happy – the other day your sad
one day a place you called your home – tomorrow is another home
one day you have a friend – the other day the friendship is no more
one day you are here – the other day you are gone.
Life goes through so many shades. It´s like our intire life consists of small different lifes.
That is what my new song is about.. I wrote it yesterday. Tomorrow there will be another song in another little shade of my life….

Sofia Ullman Band at Southside

Sofia — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:07:24 +0000

My performance this Wednesday was fine. Sofia Ullman Band played my own songs. It´s nice to perform with my brothers cause we know eachother so well that we have really fun on the stage. We make jokes out of everything. The audience liked it too. I must say that the sound was surpricingly good, the Sound Master did a good job. I might put something out here and on You Tube, because we had a camera there. Right now I´m having a little brake a few days after all work with the music and then I have more great plans.
Watch out for pictures from my upcoming music video. I will put some pics here as soon as possible…

Sofia Ullman Band at Southside

Performance 7 Marsch

Sofia — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:54:00 +0000

Sofia Ullman Band is playing at Southside Pub at Wednesday 7 Marsch. (tomorrow). The adress is Hornsgatan 104 in Stockholm. We start at 21 o clock..
We will play my latest songs, pop with an r´n´b touch.
My brothers are in the band. Tim Ullman – guitar/song, Nic Ullman-Bass/song and Philip Ölund plays the drums and sings. I will play the piano and sing.
I hope to see you there.

New musicvideo

Sofia — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:19:01 +0000

The making of my new musicvideo took place in Linköping. We started to film at a cemetery. We had a CD-player and we put the song on repeat and played it loud so I could get the groove while I was dancing. I dance around and jumped up and down beetween some big stones. Beside the cemetery was a monastery where people go to relax and get away from the stress and loud Environment. We didn´t know that and in a second we heard an angry nun standing at the entrence scolding at us. We could not stay there but before leaving we had to get a good take. Then we walked 100 meter away and filmed by the Sea for awhile.
The sun was on it´s way down so we left the Sea to go to a Hospital.
At the Hospital we went down to the floor to film at a culvert. We had quite fun there filming me writing notes and throw them down from the highest ground and down to the floor.
The place was quite dusty and dirty. We found a garbage can with wheels on and I got into it, went down sitting in it and when it stopped I jumped up of it and started to dance.
I hope this scene will be part of the video, cause it was really fun.
Then I danced on the floor and finally I run and danced in a tunnel with strong lights before going home.

The next day we went to Norrköping. I started to dance an a small bridge, while people stared and was curious what we where doing. It was really cold so between the takes I had to get some clothes on to survive… We walked by the water and continued the filming. I had so much adrenalin that I started to jump up on things. We ended the shots on a really sunny bridge and I played and danced by a cool window.
We walked to some cliffs and took some pics and then I sang the song to the CD-player to get some closeups.
The last place we went to was a street in the centre of Norrköping. People were walking up and down on the streets and it started to get really cold. We filmed at one of the a streets and as I started to dance there was an Alcoholic that got really amused by the music and started to dance with me. He was really good at it, I wish all the other terrified people that stared could have joined. We had so fun! Then I continued and I got some people to get involved in the video as I walked by.
The adrenalin and excitement of recording this made me not feel the coldness outside so much but afterwards my lips were blue and we were done.
I love to be in front of the camera, it just feels great.
Now I´m back home again.
The video will be edited and then you can see it here at the ”music” page.

For everyone who wants to here my latest songs: On Wednesday Sofia Ullman Band performes at Sothside Pub in Zinkennsdamm, Hornsgatan 104.
This time my brothers are joining me on the stage and also a friend. I will play the piano and sing.
We´re getting on at 21. You are so welcome!

Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö

Sofia — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:26:24 +0000

This Saturday was the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö. The Event Agency ”Initiativ” called me to ask if I could play at an after party for this event. so I did. They got my number through the Artist booker Claes at ”Call you net”. He is booking artists worldwide.
The airplane was cancelled for some reason so I had to take the train. I arrived around three in Malmö and after checking in at a hotel I went to the place where the event would take place, Hillton Hotel.
I did some soundcheck and preparations before the gig. There was a mic and a digital piano and beside the digital piano was a real piano that really tempted me. But I took the digital one to make sure the sound would be loud and clear with the amplifier. The guests arrived around ten and I started to play. For about 2 hours I played Eurovision Songs, pop, my own songs, ballades and others. It´s really important to save my voice when I do this kind of performances. I had sang all the week for several hours so today I didn´t sing at all before this gig.
Afterwords I felt satisfied with it and went back to my hotel.
After another cancelled plane I took the plane home Yesterday morning and now I´m at home and I got some good words from the Event Agency that hired me so it feels great.
Soon I will go to rehearsal with my band for a gig next week. Then we will play my own songs, it will be so fun!
This weekend I´m going away to record another video. Will tell you more about it later….