Dan Sundquist

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Dan Sundquist
Big Shadow Studio
Background information
Birth name	Thord Dan Rickard Sundquist
Born	(1958-09-10) 10 September 1958 (age 66) Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015
Genres	Pop, dance, rock, film score
Occupations	producer songwriter composer
Years active	1979–present
Labels	Mercury Records Stranded Rekords EMI The Record Station Sony Warner Universal Fuji Pacific 2101 Records

Thord Dan Rickard Sundqvist (born September 10, 1958) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and composer.^[1]

He has produced over 70 albums,^[2] and his production work has earned him seven Swedish Grammy Awards, among them Producer of The Year, which he was nominated three times for.^[3] He has 15 #1 hits in Sweden and countless top 10's, certifying at least 18 Gold and 11 Platinum awards. A handful of these albums have become classics and a part of Scandinavian pop culture.

Among these classics are Reeperbahn's Venuspassagen^[4] (1981), Jakob Hellman's, "och stora havet"

(1989), Wilmer X's #1 smash "Vem får nu se alla tårar"^[5] (1991), Anne-Lie Rydé's Stulna Kyssar (1992), Uno Svenningsson's "Under ytan", a Super Smash of (1994), Melody Club's debut and #1 hit "Electric" (2003).

Some of his latest work includes the film score for the American film Whitney^[6] - a biopic on the love story of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown on Lifetime TV, production work on Livet Är En Schlager - a musical by Jonas Gardell and Fredrik Kempe, and Peter Jöback's I Love Musicals.^[7] Composed a 31-minute running track, "The Chase", on Spotify's smartphone pioneer Running application, alongside celeb DJ Tiësto. He also produced and wrote hits with other Swedish stars like Måns Zelmerlöw, Sanna Nielsen, Helen Sjöholm, Molly Sandén, Linus Svenning, Anna Bergendahl, Andreas Weise, Fredrik Kempe, Jay Smith, and more.

He is also responsible for the score music of several Swedish classic feature films, including Vinterviken (1996), Adam & Eva (1997), and Bästa Sommaren (2000).

He runs his own business called Big Shadow Music Production Company.^[8]