AES Dublin 2019 Presenter or Author
Helienne Lindvall
Primary Affiliation: VEVA Sound - London, UK
Helienne Lindvall is an award-winning professional songwriter, musician and columnist. She's Chair of the Songwriter Committee & Board Director, British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors (BASCA). She also Chairs the esteemed Ivor Novello Awards, and is the writer behind the Guardian music industry columns Behind the Music and Plugged In. For the past three years, she was also Head of Business & Songwriter relations for song data management platform Auddly, backed by hitmakers Max Martin and Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus – and now she's Director of Industry Relations, Europe, for Veva Sound.
Hailing from Sweden, she worked as a session singer, recording artist and performer in Stockholm and NYC before settling in London, where she signed a publishing deal with BMG Scandinavia and, later, Universal Music Publishing Scandinavia. Since then she’s been working with recording artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including Roger Sanchez, Sunloverz, Big Daddy Wilson and the Dark Tenor, collaborating with award-winning writers including Jörgen Elofsson (Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears), Patrik Berger (Icona Pop, Robyn) and Steve McEwan (Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood). In 2016, her song A Better Man, co-written by Andrew Fromm (Backstreet Boys, Mark Anthony) and Peter Kvint (A-ha, Andreas Johnson) made the UK Eurovision finals.
Helienne contributed a chapter for the Swedish book Myten om Internet (The Myth of the Internet), published August 2012. She’s written for Digital Music News, Netopia, The Musician, The Australian and STIM-Magasinet, and regularly appears on Sky News, the BBC, Irish National Radio and Swedish National Radio, discussing songwriters’ rights, copyright and other music industry issues.
Helienne Lindvall on BBC World: Songwriters take on tech giants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLU2zHWsE84&t=78s
Helienne on Sky News on how the economical climate is affecting music creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIHqaE_8TIQ&t=2s
Helienne on BBC Newsnight, debating Spotify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFS0fihgt5c&t=22s&index=4&list=PL937BB19516936E3E
More Info: http://www.vevasound.com
Session List
Mar 20:
W02: Metadata and Why Every Audio Engineer Needs to Understand It (Panelist)