Gina Jacobi is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and producer. Since the mid-1980s, she has released productions on her own and others record companies, and her pop music has often been characterized by keyboard instruments, experimental songs and a huge measure of drastic humor. In recent years, Jacobi has also acted as a producer for other artists. The last album in her name was released in 2009.
Biography
Pop career
Jacobi's musical career began in 1984 with the group Rummet, which released the album Bagateller on the small record company Massproduktion in the home town of Sundsvall. Then she continued in her own name, and the first solo albumTid & Rum was released in 1986. The popularity was probably greatest in the 1990s when Jacobi in the press came to compare with music colleagues like Eva Dahlgren and Kate Bush. During these years Jacobi had a contract with Silence, Swedish Wea Metronome, Polygram and later EMI, who also released a number of her songs as singles. In connection with the album På jakt efter solen, she was nominated for a Grammis as the best female artist of the year.
Multicultural projects
Beside the music, Jacobi has run a number of different cultural projects in Västernorrland County, with or without immigrant reliance, and she also engages in painting. In the mid 1990s she was involved in several music projects with immigrant reliance and multilingual character. In November 1995 she was presented to an international audience, via a live recording on Kurdishsatellite television, made in Brussels. Although Gina's knowledge of Central Kurdish was very limited, she managed to handle the chats between the songs using written pieces. In connection with this, the Sorani-language cassette edition Carê seretaye, primarily releases Gina Jacobi's own songs, was translated to sorani by Hassan Ghazi and S. Herish. In 1998, a new cassette edition - Jacobi's World - was released in Swahili, Persian, Kurdish, Kikuyu, Swedish and Azerbaijani.
In the coming years, Jacobi tried to develop her writing in English, and she started several new music collaborations. This experiment eventually resulted in the two CDs Like Me and Unlike Me. On both discs, Johan Wallner contributes with guitar and songwriting on a number of tracks. October 2009 came "Ömtåligt gods", the first album with Swedish lyrics since 1995's "Alla är". This new record was recorded in Gina's home studio in Medjugorje Stöde and was part-financed by a number of her fans. In 2011, the single "Allt det ljus" was released, with the subtitle "Kim och Tomas bröllopslåt". 2012 was reported that Jacobi worked on a new music album. Then she also worked as a teacher.
Jacobi as a producer
In her home studio, Jacobi has worked with external work for other artists, like John Daniel. In 2007-2010 she had a collaboration with Skåne guitarist Peter Abrahamsson, dubbed the Double Nature. In 2008, she produced her youngest daughter Thyra Jacobi's first album. Thyra Jacobi was three years old at the release of the record and the sessions were mostly performed in 2004 - 2006. Jacobi is on the album both for songwriting, trimming Thyra's joles and arrangements.
Family
Since October 2015, Jacobi and her youngest daughter reside in Väddö, where she works as a middle school teacher in the subjects image, Swedish and English. The three older daughters live in Stockholm and Gothenburg. In March 2017, Jacobi became a grandmother for the third time.
