Miriam Bryant

Biography

Miriam Melanie Bryant (born 8 March 1991) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. On 14 February 2016, she became the first act to simultaneously hold the top three entries on the Svensktoppen weekly record chart since its original release on 13 October 1962.

Biography

Bryant was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to a British father and a Finnish mother. She attended Finnish school there and also spent time in Finland, in her mother's hometown of Iisalmi. According to Bryant, during her childhood, people of Finnish background were looked down upon in Sweden, which is why she highlighted her English side as a child.
She began to write songs in 2011 together with her childhood friend, Victor Rådström who is a producer and songwriter. Four months later, she produced three songs released in her single debut "Finders, Keepers×Finders, Keepers20 March 2012 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Finders, Keepers3:31" in March 2012 through the record label 100 songs. The song received worldwide attention among bloggers and music sites. She is signed to Warner Music in Sweden and to Interscope Records in the United States.

She has collaborated with music producer and DJ Zedd, who first heard her on the German radio. Zedd made a remix of her song "Push Play×Push Play14 January 2013 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracks1Push Play3:242A Cappella Song3:06" on his re-released album.
Bryant released her Push Play EP on 8 October 2013 through Interscope Records, her debut release in the United States. In 2015, Bryant was one of eight artists being involved in the programme Så mycket bättre on the Swedish commercial channel TV4. After that, her popularity grew quickly.
The single "Black Car×Black Car19 August 2016 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Black Car3:382Black Car (Tour Bus Session)3:483Game3:10" became a hit in homeland Sweden, winning Song of the Year in 2016. In 2017, Bryant was nominated for Best Live Act on the Swedish Grammis. In 2018, British press wrote the following about her single—Clash magazine wrote "Highly Intelligent and completely infectious", and The Line of Best Fit wrote "Miriam Bryant is your next pop superhero". In 2018, she played at Roskilde Festival and The Great Escape Festival, to name a few.
In December 2019, she hosted the TV and radio fundraising project Musikhjälpen in Västerås together with Daniel Hallberg and Farah Abadi.
PS jag hatar dig (2021) was Bryant's first Swedish-language studio album; on the previous two she had sung in English. In 2024 she released her first Finnish-language single "Mustelmilla (Mi Amor)". Later that year, she was a guest at the reception for Finland's Independence Day.