Oscar Stembridge

Oscar Stembridge is a self-taught Swedish singer and multi-instrumentalist. He plays guitar, piano, drums, and ukulele.{{cite news |last1=Fernstedt |first1=Nora |title=Drömmen om skivkontrakt blev sann för Oscar, 11 |url=https://www.svd.se/a/508X7z/drommen-om-skivkontrakt-blev-sann-for-oscar-11 |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Svenska Dagbladet |date=3 May 2019 |language=sv}} He began by recording himself playing cover songs by artists such as Queen, Guns N' Roses, Ed Sheeran, Avicii, and Shawn Mendes, which his parents posted on social media. At the age of ten, he was the youngest person to ever get a recording contract with Universal Music Sweden.{{cite news |last1=Stivale |first1=Shelby |title=Oscar Stembridge Becomes Youngest Artist Ever to Sign Record Deal with Universal Sweden |url=https://tigerbeat.com/2019/02/oscar-stembridge-universal-sweden/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301045935/http://tigerbeat.com/2019/02/oscar-stembridge-universal-sweden/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 March 2019 |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=TigerBeat |publisher=TigerBeat Media |date=26 February 2019}}{{cite news |title=Stora drömmar ledde 11-åringen hela vägen till skivkontrakt |url=https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2019-04-14/stora-drommar-ledde-11-aringen-hela-vagen-till-skivkontrakt |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Sydsvenskan |date=14 April 2019 |language=sv |trans-title=Big dreams led the 11-year-old all the way to a record deal |url-access=subscription}}{{Better source needed|reason=This article requires a subscription, so it is difficult to confirm the accuracy of the referenced claims.|date=October 2024}} In 2019, when he was eleven years old, he was invited to perform on the reality music program Allsång på Skansen—being the youngest musician to ever do so.{{cite news |last1=Nylund |first1=Daniel |title=Sommarens yngsta artist som gästar Allsång på Skansen är 11 år gamla Oscar Stembridge: "Jag är superglad" |url=https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-1400037 |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=Svenska |language=sv}} The same year, he released his first original single, titled "Losing You".

In 2020, he played the Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'" for Crown Princess Victoria on her birthday, at an event that included performances by the Mamas, Linnea Henriksson, Petra Marklund, and Anne Sofie von Otter.{{Cite news |last=Hartelius |first=Alex |date=14 July 2020 |title=Oscar Stembridge gjorde succé |url=https://www.expressen.se/noje/darfor-uteblev-prins-oscar-fran-konsertdebuten/}}

Stembridge has also appeared on television. In 2020, he landed the lead male role on the SVT musical series Kär, which consists of 122 episodes. His co-star is the 12-year-old Eva Jumatate.{{Cite news |last=Kjellden |first=Jakab |date=18 August 2020 |title=Oscar är stjärnorna i SVT's nya maratonprojekt |url=https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/eva-och-oscar-ar-stjarnorna-svts-nya-maratonprojekt/ |work=Expressen}}{{Cite news |last=Höggren |first=Saga |date=28 August 2020 |title=Kärlek är bra grejer |url=https://www.svd.se/a/Wb9WQL/karlek-ar-bra-grejer |work=SVD}}

In 2022, Stembridge independently released his debut EP, THIR13EN.{{Cite web |last=Shapiro |first=Rebecca |date=25 March 2022 |title=Oscar Stembridge, Teen Rock Sensation from Sweden Releases Latest Single |url=https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/oscar-stembridge-latest-single-am-i-the-only-one-via-fan-powered-platform-corite}}

In 2024, he appeared on the 19th season of America's Got Talent, only the second Swede to do so in the show's history.{{Cite news |last=TT |date=26 June 2024 |title=Svenske Oscar tävlar i "America's got talent" |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur/svenske-oscar-tavlar-i-america-s-got-talent/ |work=Dagens Nyheter |url-access=subscription}}

EPs

• THIR13EN (2022)

Singles

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• "Hold My Hand" (2018)
• "Train" (2018)
• "Losing You" (2019)
• "Hold on Me" (2019)
• "We March" (2019)
• "Sleepless" (2019)
• "Too Much" (2020)
• "Where Are You Now?" (2020)
• "WOW" (2020)
• "These Days" (2021)
• "Don't Lie to Me" (2022)
• "Am I the Only One" (2022)
• "Young Ones" (2022)
• "Fake Front" (2022)
• "What If" (2024)
• "Little Bird" (2025)
• "Dead Man Walking" (2025)

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• {{official website|oscarstembridge.com}}
• {{IMDb name|10303201}}

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Category:Date of birth uncertain

Category:Living people

Category:Swedish male singer-songwriters

Category:Swedish child singers

Category:Swedish multi-instrumentalists

Category:21st-century Swedish male singers

Category:America's Got Talent contestants

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)