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The guitarist, composer and producer Alexander Kronbrink was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1982. His band Sonic Station released it self-titled debut in February 2012.

Kronbrink tried his father’s acoustic guitar, always lying around in the house, at an early age and when he was nine he got his first guitar lesson. Early on he started taking his guitar some hundred meters down the road to visit his friend and neighbor Jonathan Fritzén who played keyboard and piano. Together they had jam sessions fooling around with jazz harmonies and even trying out some of their own compositions. Today Fritzén is a big star in the smooth jazz genre and has had several number 1-hits on the Billboard charts in the US. He also appears on the Sonic Station record. As does Kronbrink on Fritzén’s records "VIP" and "Diamonds" - under the name "Alex Crown".

Even though he never stopped practicing his guitar it wasn’t until his early 20’s he decided to dedicate himself completely to music. After going into a variety of music genres in his teens it was when a friend of his father’s, a jazz critic, introduced him to the American guitarist Lee Ritenours music, Alexander started to see a direction in his playing. Through Ritenour he discovered the music of such giants as Steely Dan, Kenny Loggins, composer och producer David Foster and guitarist Jay Graydon, to mention a few.

Some years later, while studying music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, he teamed up with Marika Willstedt, a singer and piano player, and they started writing music and playing together. A collaboration that turned out to be the beginning of the Sonic Station record. Willstedt is today a well known artist and session musician. She sings and plays keyboards on the Sonic Station record and has also written most of the lyrics. During the second half of the 00’s, while working on his Sonic Station project, Alexander also played the guitar with different artists and groups. Among them the thrilling side project Moonlight Sailors with, once again, his friend Jonathan Fritzén on keyboards, accompanied by drummer Aron Mellergård and bass player Henrik Linder of the group Dirty Loops.