When did you start singing and when did you decide to become a singer for a metal band?
Tommy: Actually I was in the school choir in fifth or sixth grade in elementary school. I never sang that much, but of course I listened to a lot of music. When I was sixteen I picked up a guitar and started to write some songs (laughs), because I met this guy Johan Larsson, our substitute bass player. I met him in school and he inspired me to start with music. He showed me some stuff and I came across bands like Sonata Arctica and Dream Theater, a couple of Jorn Lande projects. Have you heard of Beyond Twilight? It has Jorn Lande on vocals too. I was really inspired to thing like that. So I set up a microphone at home and tried to imagine my voice sounded like this and eventually it kind of did. (laughs) So I sang at home and in the car and just tried to sound like what I heard. We had a band, Johan and me, which was called "Johan and Tommy Band" and I wrote children pop music in Swedish (laughs). Later this guy from Vindictive asked me if I wanted to sing on a couple of demo songs, so I wrote the melodies and the lyrics on his stuff, which Seventh Wonder heard eventually and asked me to come to an audition when their singer quit. Or got fired. That's the whole story I think. I just love to sing and I try to sound like the persons I love, but not too much of course.