Born in the quiet mountain town of Stockholm, Sweden, Å lived an affluent life, his father Ö being a popular talk-show host and his mother Ä one of Scandinavia's most successful musicians, though Å rarely got a chance to see his mother while she toured Europe with German pop singer Ü. But everything took a turn for the worse when Ö was assassinated in the summer of 1986 by jealous Norwegian reporter Ø, when Å was but 10 years old. The event left Å's mother in a state of hysteria, and in 1990, she suffered a nervous breakdown, leaving Å on his own. Eventually, he was sent to St.Sven's Orphanage in Malmö, where he met orphans J and ð, and formed Sweden's first emo band, Fäll Öüt Bðy. They in turn spawned their own genre of music their fans dubbed "Scandinavian death emo", kinda like what In