Nils Landgren Funk Unit

Nils Landgren Unit first performed in 1992. The breakthrough beyond Scandinavia came first in 1994: it was at the Jazz Baltica Festival in Salzau (Germany) that the band became the Funk Unit. The album Live in Stockholm was released that year.

The next release (Paint It Blue) was one of 1997's most successful albums and received Germany Jazz Award. The following tour of over 100 dates gave Nils Landgren Funk Unit their breakthrough in Germany.

In between 1999 and 2001, the band released three more albums — Live in Montreux, 5000 Miles and Fonk Da World, the latter was presented live at the special festival in Hamburg dedicated to Nils Landgren's music. "The grooving band, which encouraged the younger members of the audience into a dance frenzy, but which was also taken seriously by the greying jazz snobs" (Spiegel), proved that it could be counted as "the best funk band in Europe today" (Stereo).

In 2004, the Nils Landgren Funk Unit produced the acclaimed platinum Funky ABBA album, a personal homage to one of the greatest pop bands in history.

2007 brings the band back again. The eighth album Licence to Funk demonstrates the same groove as its award-winning predecessors. A vital contribution on this album was delivered by the legendary Ray Parker Jr.

For every record of Nils Landgren Funk Unit next album Funk For Life (released in spring 2010) sold, 1€ goes to the Doctors Without Borders project Funk For Life in Kibera, Nairobi.

After having toured all over the world in 2010, Funk Unit slowed the pace down temporarily to regenerate and to write material for Teamwork, released in 2013. Unbreakable followed in 2017.