Mando Diao is a band from Borlänge (Sweden), founded in 1999. Their style is known to be very eclectic. As the frontman Björn Dixgård once said, “Mando Diao is a new chapter every time we make a new album”.

Throughout the current seven studio albums of the band you may find rock, pop, some 60’s vibes, 80’s too, punk-rock, jazz, disco… you name it. They say they have influences from all kinds of music genres and also from many underground music movements, from different countries. With this description you may think that maybe it’s too much to mix simultaneously, but that’s exactly where the mastery of the band resides: they keep it all fluidly together, always a completely new experience, but always Mando Diao, with the unmatched lyrics and voice of the two frontmen Björn Dixgård and Gustaf Norén.

In addition to the studio albums, compilations and side projects, in 2010 they recorded Above And Beyond – MTV Unplugged concert at Union Film-Studios in Berlin, featuring guest appearances by Ray Davies, Klaus Voormann, Juliette Lewis and Lana Del Rey.

They have toured all over the world, and are huge manly in Sweden, Japan, Germany, Austria and Spain.

Mando Diao Official website