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Per Hakan Gessle

Full name: Per Håkan Gessle, is the songwriter and male lead singer of the Swedish bands Gyllene Tider and Roxette. He was a founding member of Gyllene Tider in 1979.

Nicknames: Pelle, Parre, Gellner
Birthday: January, 12th  of 1959

Place of Birth: Halmstad, Sweden
Sign: Capricorn
Favorite instrument: None
Bands previously played: Grape Rock, Peter Pop & The Helicopters, Gyllene Tider, Per's Garage,. He has also participated with the Swedish singer Nisse Hellberg in the project The Lonely Boys

He has released five solo albums:

The album Mazarin is 5 times platinum as of February 2004 in Sweden. Only The World According To Gessle is in English, the others are in Swedish. Per Gessle and Scener were re-released together with a demo album in 1992 as På Väg . In 1997 Hjärtats Trakt was released, a best-of album.

Per Gessle released his second English album called Son of a Plumber in November 2005. The album contains all of Gessle musical heritage. His father was a plumber and the 2-disc album contains a song dedicated to him, Kurt - The Fastest Plumber In The West. The album sold platinum on the first day of release. The album was also released in several other European countries in April 2006.

Favorites songs of Roxette: "The Look" and "Crash! Boom! Bang!"
Bands than you like: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Status: Married to wife Asa "Woody" Nordin-Gessle since 21 August 1993, they had been together for 15 years since they met each other at the night club. Son Gabriel Titus Gessle (Born: 5 August 1997)
Favorite country to go on vacations: France
Favorite city: Buenos Aires
Five words than descibe himself: Greedy, dishonest, calculating (prudent), cold and indifferent

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