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Robyn - 76% match to Lykke Li

Robin Miriam Carlsson, 12 June 1979, Stockholm, Sweden. This Swedish pop singer achieved great commercial success in her homeland and also a brief period of fame in the USA. Carlsson first performed as a member of a travelling theatre group founded by her parents. She began writing songs when she was 11 as a form of self-expression to heal the pain of her parents’ recen Read more

Cults - 75% match to Lykke Li

Feist - 60% match to Lykke Li

Leslie Feist, 13 February 1976, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Indie singer-songwriter Leslie Feist started her music career in her native Toronto, working with popular local punk band Placebo (not the internationally successful rock unit of the same name led by Brian Molko). She relocated to Toronto in the mid-90s and established a number of new musical acquaintances, notabl Read more

Sleigh Bells - 57% match to Lykke Li

M.i.a. - 42% match to Lykke Li

The Kills - 41% match to Lykke Li

The comparisons between transatlantic duo the Kills and Detroit, Michigan’s White Stripes are inevitable, especially since both units are comprised of only two members (one female and one male), utilize the same instruments (just guitar and drums), and specialize in the same stripped-down, garage rock sound. Vocalist and guitarist Alison ‘VV’ Mosshart originally Read more

Beach House - 39% match to Lykke Li

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 37% match to Lykke Li

The White Stripes and the Strokes opened up the floodgates for other early punk/garage rock outfits shortly after the start of the new millennium, with bands such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs followed in their wake. Comprising the striking figure of Karen O aka Karen Ohm (Karen Orzalek, 22 November 1978, South Korea; vocals), and her male band mates Brian Chase (b. 2 December 1978 Read more

Bon Iver - 36% match to Lykke Li

Kate Nash - 35% match to Lykke Li

6 July 1987, Harrow, London, England. Nash became interested in music at an early age, learning the piano while attending school. Her musical talents played came second to her first love of acting, which gained her entry to the BRIT School of Performing Arts and Technology in south London. After an unsuccessful audition at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Nash had an accident wh Read more

Cocorosie - 31% match to Lykke Li

CocoRosie is the unusual recording name used by American sisters Sierra (Iowa, USA) and Bianca Casady (b. Hawaii, USA), who have been described by their record label as ‘tiny field mice singing gospel’. The sisters spent an itinerant childhood following their mother, a Native American teacher and painter. Sierra went on to study classical opera singing and learned Read more

Warpaint - 29% match to Lykke Li

Best Coast - 28% match to Lykke Li

St. Vincent - 27% match to Lykke Li

Friendly Fires - 26% match to Lykke Li