About Frans
Frans (17) became popular at age 7 with a song dedicated to the football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic and made an explosive comeback in this year's Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song If I Were Sorry.
Frans Jeppson Wall was born on December 19, 1998 in Ystad, region of Skåne in Southern Sweden. He first gained recognition during the World Cup of 2006 when he released his now famed tribute track paying homage to Zlatan Ibrahimovic, all at the tender age of seven years old. The song, named Who's Da Man swiftly became a phenomenon and Frans was soon crowned "Zlatan- Frans" with and by the Swedish people. This year, 10 years post his original epic homage to Zlatan, Frans is now making an explosive comeback in the Swedish Song ContestMelodifestivalen with his new track If I Were Sorry.
The track is co-written by Fredrik Andersson, Michael Saxell, Oscar Fogelström and Frans himself. Frans performed the song for the very first time in Gävle during the fourth and last semi-final making it directly to the big final at the Friends Arena, Stockholm on March 12th.The single was released immediately after the performance and ascended quickly on the charts. The song is currently #1 on the Swedish Spotify charts, number 1 on the Swedish National single sales chart and the track has since release been streamed more than 4 million times – this despite stiff competition from other strong Melodifestivalen contributions as well as world famous tracks signed by Zayn or Rihanna.
The composers
Fredrik Andersson is a songwriter, producer and executive director of Cardiac Records. In 2015 Fredrik wrote and produced one of the most popular tracks in Sweden, Johnny G with the artist Badpojken. It was also Fredrik who in 2006 wrote the hit Who’s da man with Frans which stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks! Fredrik was awarded the Ystad Kommun Culture Prize last year. The prize was recognition for the initiative he had taken in founding the new music course at IMP - Institute of Music and Production.
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