Nephew (band)

Nephew
Simon Kvamm at Roskilde Festival 2010.
Background information
Origin	Aarhus, Denmark
Genres	Rock Synthpop New wave
Years active	1996–2014, 2018-2019
Labels	Martian Copenhagen
Members	Simon Kvamm Kristian Riis Søren Arnholt Kasper Toustrup René Munk Thalund Marie Højlund
Past members	Jonas Juul Jeppesen
Website	nephew.dk

Nephew was a Danish rock band formed in 1996 in Aarhus, Denmark. The band consisted of Simon Kvamm (lead vocals, keyboards, songwriting), Kristian Riis (guitar, backing vocals), Søren Arnholt (drums, backing vocals), Kasper Toustrup (bass guitar), René Munk Thalund (keyboards), and Marie Højlund (vocals, keyboards, guitar).

The band used a mixture of Danish and English in their lyrics; most of the band's early songs were in English with minimal Danish lyrics, but the band has since moved to primarily Danish vocals. In 2009, when interviewed about the band's mixture of languages, frontman Simon Kvamm said: "It's important for me to use the Danish kind of English that I speak...my mother tongue Danish, and my second language English, are very present to me in thinking and talking and speaking with others, and writing. Also in songwriting. And things just take form in one of those languages, or a mixture in between them. I can't really find a system to what goes the English way and what goes the Danish."^[1]

As of 2013, Nephew has sold over 400,000 copies of their albums.^[2]