Kajsa Grytt

{{Short description|Swedish musician (born 1961)}}

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| name = Kajsa Grytt

| image = Kajsa Grytt 2014.JPG

| caption = Grytt in 2014

| birth_name = Karin Johanna Grytt

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|6|20|df=y}}

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| origin = Stockholm, Sweden

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| occupation = Singer

| years_active = 1979–present

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| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20141206054338/http://www.kajsagrytt.com/ Official website]

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Karin Johanna "Kajsa" Grytt (born 20 June 1961) is a Swedish punk-rocker, guitarist, singer and songwriter. She was between 1979 and 1985 guitarist in the band Tant Strul and 1985 to 1988 and around 1996 a member of the duo Kajsa och Malena.{{cite web|url=http://www.eventim.se/kajsa-grytt-biografi.html?affiliate=ESE&doc=artistPages/biography&fun=artist&action=biography&kuid=455797|title=Kajsa Grytt Biografi|work=Kajsa Grytt – Biljetter|accessdate=29 November 2014|archive-date=5 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205020520/http://www.eventim.se/kajsa-grytt-biografi.html?affiliate=ESE&doc=artistPages%2Fbiography&fun=artist&action=biography&kuid=455797|url-status=live}} Grytt wrote most of the lyrics to the band's songs.

Grytt is nowadays a solo singer and made her musical comeback in 2003. She played along with David Giese during a few years, and then along with Jari Haapalainen, who also produced her two latest solo albums. She has so far made five solo albums and on her album Brott & straff several of the songs were written by female prisoners. On the same album Grytt did a duet with Joakim Thåström.

In 2011, Kajsa Grytt released the album En kvinna under påverkan and the biography book Boken om mig själv (The book about myself).{{cite web|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bokrecensioner/kajsa-grytt-boken-om-mig-sjalv/|title=Kajsa Grytt: "Boken om mig själv"|work=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=29 November 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404033858/http://www.dn.se/dnbok/bokrecensioner/kajsa-grytt-boken-om-mig-sjalv/|archive-date=4 April 2015}} In April 2011 Sveriges Television broadcast an interview with Grytt where she talked about the book and the new album and how she looks on her life these days.{{cite web|url=http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.603297-kajsa-grytt-later-livet-ta-plats|title=Kajsa Grytt: Låter livet ta plats|accessdate=29 November 2014|archive-date=18 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018210847/http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.603297-kajsa-grytt-later-livet-ta-plats|url-status=live}}

In 2014, Grytt released her first novel book called Nio dagar, nio nätter.{{cite book|url=http://www.norstedts.se/bocker/utgiven/2014/Var/grytt_kajsa-nio_dagar__nio_natter-inbunden/|title=Grytt, K – Nio dagar, nio nätter – 13050485 – Norstedts|publisher=nortstedts.se|accessdate=29 November 2014|archive-date=6 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206164350/http://www.norstedts.se/bocker/utgiven/2014/Var/grytt_kajsa-nio_dagar__nio_natter-inbunden/|url-status=live}} And in late 2014, she participated in season five of the TV4 show Så mycket bättre.{{cite web|url=http://www.tv4.se/s%C3%A5-mycket-b%C3%A4ttre/artist/kajsa-grytt|title=Så mycket bättre 2014|work=tv4.se|accessdate=29 November 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204130942/http://www.tv4.se/s%C3%A5-mycket-b%C3%A4ttre/artist/kajsa-grytt|archivedate=4 December 2014}}