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T & the Rex
The person behind
My name is Tilda Bergkvist, I am 19 years old and I live in the small town of Oskarshamn in southeastern Sweden. I am in my last year of high school at "Oscarsgymnasiet" and my education is focused around music. I have written music for as long as I can remember, but I started getting serious when I was about 14/15 years old. I started recording covers and original music, singing and playing the guitar, and then I posted it on YouTube. I participated in the music competition Imagine Kalmar in 2018 with the stage name "tlda", but unfortunately I did not make it to regionals. There and then I decided to get my music career started for real, and the first thoughts about T & the Rex came to life. I went to "Jenny Nyströmsskolan" in Kalmar Sweden my first year of high school, and through the computers at school I came in contact with the DAW Garageband for the first time. I played around with it, and eventually made my first song; the song that today is known as "hide & seek" on my first EP. I met my girlfriend in spring 2019, and she has meant a lot for my music. She supports me like nobody else, she lets me write music about her (hint: eat sleep rave repeat), and she is the camera-woman, brain, and editor behind all my music videos. T & the Rex would not be the same without her. Fall 2019 I moved to Michigan USA to study my second year of high school. Living in a new country brought up a lot of feelings which lead to a lot of songs, most of them never released. However a song that got released is "never think that war is not a crime" that is about feeling lonely and insecure. Today I am back in Oskarshamn, studying my third and final year of high school. I am writing and creating an album as my final exam and I am going to sell vinyl records through my JA-school company. Can the T & the Rex life get any better? I certainly do not think so.
Photos by Jake Weirick on Unsplash, Vera Emdén, and Mikael Bergkvist