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Glam Sam and his Combo is the brain child of Mats Samuelsson, a Stockholm-based journalist, writer and music lover.

Back in the days he got involved in a promising indie jazz-pop duo in Sweden, but after a couple of fine demos the dudes quit the game and returned to university.

Suddenly, too many years later, Mr Samuelsson stepped out as Glam Sam, formed his Combo and started a musical adventure based on pure joy. Only one thing was settled: the music should be, must be and will be: Groovy!

During a year of inspirational fun, the debut album evolved and got filled with all the things Glam Sam loves about music: the jazz, the disco, the funk and the soul, the grooves and the coolness as well as fun samples and top vocals. The bubbling jazzy and funky rhythm section is accompanied with swaying pianos, rhodes, groovy guitars and organs, playful horns and, yeah, some vibraphones as well.

The 18-track strong debut album is called “Groovy!” – the sounds to make you smile, dig, lounge and dance.Yeah, it’s good! It’s groovy! So, groovers of the world, unite and get ready for Glam Sam and his Combo.

“Love your tunes!! Puts me back in the Friday mood. Mmmmm”, says the wonderful Hilde Louise Asbjornsen, Norway’s number 1 jazz singer.

Mark Gentry, a groovy man with the weekly radio show Soul Heaven, is on the move too:
“If you like jazz influenced dance grooves then this will be just up your street! Full of good tunes that will get you up out of your seat and onto your feet. You will get your groove on!! I predict that this album will receive the worldwide recognition as it so rightly deserves.”

Soon, the second album “The Paradise Groove” followed, with deepened dance floor vibes. And the radio dj’s got the groove on in Brazil and London, in Germany and Spain…

Then there were the ep’s, a series of brilliant ep’s, and in 2014 it was time to celebrate Glam Sam’s strong output of the past years with the Best-Of album “Feeling Groovy – Glam Sam’s Greatest Hits”.

End of story? Not really. Beware groovers! In the autumn of 2015 Glam Sam is announcing his great comeback. Time to get some pure coolness again…

This time he brought a bunch of good funky friends to the studio to create the happiest block party vibes that Stockholm has to offer. Yes, Glam Sam proudly presents: Stockholm City Soul, featuring Glam Sam with Anthony Mills, Prop Dylan, Rapper KC, Biker Boy, John Morales and Karen Gibson Roc. Release: 23 October 2015.

Stockholm City Soul

Beware groovers! Time to get some pure coolness again… Glam Sam is back. This time he brought a bunch of good funky friends to the studio to create the happiest block party vibes that Stockholm has to offer. Yes, Glam Sam proudly presents: Stockholm City Soul…

Feeling Groovy (Glam Sam´s Greatest Hits)

Mr. Glam Sam is bringing life to his combo once again to offer the world 22 of his greatest hits. There’s pretty much everything you need here: the sounds to make you smile, dig, lounge and dance.

Disco Will Never Die

Glam Sam delivers a brand-new piece of art filled to the brim with disco-flavoured tracks for the discotheque dance floors of the world. The disco music is spiced up with house, old school hip hop, soulful vibes and acid jazz, and towards the end Glam Sam touches cool jazz and electro funk.

The Coolsville Sessions

The groove lovers of the world will stand up and shout, united in the name of the funk, cause Glam Sam is back. And he’s back to stay. Last year’s EPs, the jazzy ”The Riviera Sessions” and the old school hip hop grooves of ”The Brooklyn Sessions”, are now followed by a selection of tracks produced by a man who found his way home. At last. This time Glam Sam is grooving back home in Coolsville, presenting the very fresh ep ”The Coolsville Sessions”.

The Brooklyn Sessions

Is he going nuts? The man left his Riviera studio, went away from the pure sweetness and all those funny nights and headed for Brooklyn. In his cellar studio he teamed up with rapper Edison and the rest of the old school bunch and started journey into the essence of hiphop…

The Riviera Sessions

Yes, it’s time so start the happy party again! The mysterious Swedish groove man Mr Glam Sam has been cooling things down in his shining Riviera studio, and now it’s time to return to the world. Get ready for the new cool’n’jazzy offering from the man, the 6-track EP named The Riviera Sessions. The music is heavily inspired by the sunny glamorous days of Côte d’Azur, when Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn were the top ladies and Miles Davies knocked everybody on stage in the Gould Pine Grove in Juan-les-Pins…

The Paradise Groove

Yes, it’s time so start the happy party again! The Swedish groove lover Glam Sam is back on track with the release of his second album, “The Paradise Groove”. Ahh, the music is so groovy that it makes you feel like you’re transferred to a better, sunnier, cooler and even hotter place, time or state of mind. So smile and wrap yourself in The Paradise Groove !

The Last Days Of Disco

Lemongrassmusic is proud to present an exclusive taster, the 3-track ep “The Last Days Of Disco”, starring not only Glam Sam and His Combo but also Swedish pop man Biker Boy, singing in his unique and very cool style. This wonderfully catchy disco tune is both intense and smooth, with strings from heaven, a driving disco guitar backed by a pumping bass, and with a drummer boy that must be dreaming about the good old days at Studio 54…

Groovy

The 18-track strong debut album from Sweden’s Glam Sam and his Combo is called “Groovy!” And that’s what it is. Here you will find your favourite soundtrack to the warm up party, the main party and the after party. Here are the grooves for the freaking out on the dance floor and the chilling time in the lounge, or just the sounds to make it more funky back home.

Glam Sam And His Combo