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Biography

Lemma first became known to a wider audience in 2000 when he provided the soundtrack for Josef Fares' film #Jalla Jalla. The hit single "If I Used to Love You," sounded bewilderingly old-fashioned, Southern soul with a little dose Jimmy Cliff. When the single was played on the radio, people often thought it a soul classic that they might not know. But before this, Lemma had both recorded an album that was not released, and lead the bands Mo Blues and Mo Funk. Mo Blues played old Delta blues and songster music, while Mo Funk played soul and party funk at clubs around Göteborg, Sweden, but did not release any records. Then Lemma went to New York for a few years, where he wrote songs and recorded a soul album. But before the album could be released, the record company when bankrupt and the album got caught in the legal process that followed. For two years, Lemma waited in vain before he went back to Göteborg.

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