Musical Career
At an early age Myrin was the lead vocalist in a band that performed around Sweden. He started playing piano at the age of 11 and very soon thereafter began writing his first songs. At the age of 17 he moved to London to study music and drama. At the age of 19 he played one of the main characters in the West Side Story in London. He was active in Hillsong London where he soon began leading the music team. He wrote and co-wrote songs featured on the various albums including Shout God's Fame, God He Reigns, Hope and The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One. He toured with the Hillsong worship team around Rwanda, Cambodia and the USA. He often sang in duet and has done a lot of songwriting with another Hillsong London worship leader Natasha Bedingfield who has achieved worldwide success as a pop singer since then.
In 2002, Myrin appeared in the music video to the song "Get Over You" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor playing a groom mannequin in a bridal shop.
In 2007, he played keyboards and Wurlitzer electric piano on the album N.B. by Natasha Bedingfield. In the same year, he co-wrote a song "Christmas Angels" with Michael W. Smith featured on the album It's a Wonderful Christmas.
He also co-wrote the airplay hit song "Yours" on Steven Curtis Chapman's album This Moment released in 2007.
For Matt Redman's 2009 album We Shall Not Be Shaken, Myrin co-wrote songs with Redman.
He recently wrote the theme song for the hit Japanese TV series, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The song was performed by duo Chemistry.
In 2011, he co-wrote the song "Our God", performed by Chris Tomlin which has been nominated for an American Grammy Award.
Myrin co-wrote 3 songs on Natasha Bedingfield's album Strip Me. "Break Thru" which was co-written with the Swedish electronic artist and producer Andreas Kleerup, "Run Run Run" and "A Little Too Much" co-written with John Hill. The latest was also the theme song for the movie Something Borrowed.
Myrin has recently been writing and collaborating with artist like Supergrass, Justin Hawkins from The Darkness, Guy Sigsworth, Scratch from The Roots, Björn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John), Gary Go, Iain Archer (Snowpatrol and Tired Pony) and Joel Pott from Athlete.
His first solo album Dreams Plans Everything will be released in 2013. The first single, "The Day of the Battle" was released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on June 18, 2012 and is already becoming an airplay hit on German Radio. A video for "The Day of the Battle" was recorded in Stockholm on June 27. Myrin is one of the first artist in history to be put on real fire in a music video.
In February 2013, Jonas Myrin was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song of the year for his and Matt Redman's song "10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)".
Myrin also penned Lucia Piñera's entry for the Swedish qualifying competition for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest together with Peter Kvint.
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