4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Born into one of Sweden’s most well-known entertainment dynasties, Benjamin Ingrosso has been famous in his home country since childhood. In fact, he first took the stage at just three years old, playing Mowgli in front of 25,000 people. Now 27, Ingrosso wrote his first hit at age eight, represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest, won the Swedish equivalent of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and hosted an award-winning cooking show — all while making occasional appearances on his family’s decade-long reality series, ‘Wahlgrens Värld.’
But music has always been his first love, and with his fifth album, ‘Pink Velvet Theatre,’ he’s finally achieving the acclaim and recognition he has long pursued. A concept album filled with anthemic, kaleidoscopic pop, his songs fit seamlessly alongside Elton John, ABBA, and the Bee Gees while offering a fresh, modern spin.
Now, in the midst of his first-ever U.S. tour, Ingrosso joins us in the studio to discuss his songwriting process and his journey from child star to five-time Swedish Grammy-nominated artist. He reflects on growing up in a famous family — including his cousin Seb from Swedish House Mafia and his sister influencer/entrepreneur sister Bianca — why Swedish songwriters are so successful and the Law of Jante. Plus, he opens up about public judgment, having no friends in school, self-doubt and self-belief, why he likes older ladies, why he was responsible for a Pecorino cheese shortage in Sweden, and much more.
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0:00.0 | A Zach Sang Show podcast today keeps the doctor away. |
0:05.1 | Hey, beautiful Kuman. |
0:06.3 | I'm Zach. |
0:06.8 | That's Dan. |
0:07.3 | And today we're hanging out with a huge pop star in his home country. |
0:09.9 | He's been doing this a very long time. |
0:11.5 | He's got streams in the billions. |
0:13.5 | And he's currently in the middle of his first ever U.S. tour. |
0:16.8 | Welcome to the studio, Benjamin and Grosso. |
0:19.2 | Thank you so much. |
0:20.2 | Thanks for having me. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. |
0:21.0 | Thank you. |
0:21.6 | Yeah, you're really interesting. |
0:23.0 | Thank you. |
0:24.0 | You're like recording all the time. |
0:25.9 | Yeah. |
0:26.3 | You're miced up like for your own production. |
0:28.2 | Exactly, yeah. |
0:29.0 | What do you do? |
0:29.4 | Is it a documentary? |
0:30.1 | It's a documentary. |
0:30.9 | So it's on Max, like the old HBO Max. |
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