Draft:Victor Thell

Victor Thell (born March 16 1991 in Allerum, Helsingborg) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and singer. He is part of the duo Smith & Thell alongside Maria Jane Smith. Since 2022, Victor Thell also runs the music publishing company Amare Publishing together with Sony Music Publishing.

Biography
Thell grew up in Helsingborg and in 2012 he started Smith & Thell together with Maria Jane Smith. In 2014, Thell initiated a collaboration with Molly Sandén and they wrote Freak together.

In 2015, Smith & Thell was awarded rookie artist/band of the year at the Denniz Pop Awards with Max Martin among others in the jury. Smith & Thell was also voted New Emerging International Artist at Musexpo in Los Angeles 2016.

In 2016, Victor Thell started working internationally with artists like Sunrise Avenue. In 2017, Thell produced six songs on Darin's album Tvillingen which became Sweden's most played radio song in 2018.

In 2018, Smith & Thell had its first placement as number one in Sweden with Forgive Me Friend, a song that also entered the Billboard Alternative Radio list in the USA in 2019. Since then, the band has toured the US with shows in San Francisco, Sacramento, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and New York. In New York, the band played at the Forest Hills Stadium together with The Head and the Heart, Fitz and the Tantrums, Young the Giant and Dashboard Confessional.

In 2020, together with Maria Jane Smith, Thell won a Grammis as composers of the year. In 2021, Thell was nominated for another Grammis, and that year Smith & Thell won the Grand Prize at the International Songwriting Competition.