Flow Magazine interviews Juvelen: http://www.flowmagazine.net/more.php?id=136
I've been listening to his debut EP on Hybris a lot recently.

New mailorder arrivals over the weekend: for noiseniks I've got Pistol Disco's highly regarded album "Two" and for pop-fans I have Juvelen's debut EP. Also, don't forget the newly-launched It's A Trap! Record Club - a fresh CD every month plus free downloads and more, all for one low price. Discovering new music doesn't get much easier.
UPDATE: a package of stuff from Flora & Fauna/Flogsta Danshall just showed up as well. New items to be added soon! New items now available! This also means I've updated my previously lonely, underpopulated hip-hop section to now include skweee and soul. Nice!

In related news, Hello Saferide will be playing the Absolut Swedish Music Festival at The Village in Dublin on March 3 along with Moneybrother and Taxi, Taxi!. Other artists set to appear at the festival include Zeigeist, Samuraj Cities, Consequences, Juvelen, I'm From Barcelona and Salem Al Fakir.

Top 10s for 2006: Staff picks

Hybris has announced the signing of Swedish white boy-soul phenomenon Juvelen: http://hybrism.blogspot.com/2006/12/hybris-signs-juvelen.html

MP3: Juvelen - Watch your step

Guest post today courtesy of Simon Tagestam:

It's perhaps not that hip anymore to sound like Prince, since we've already got major mainstream artists like Justin Timberlake and André from Outkast who often sound like they've moved to Minneapolis and joined the Jehovah's Witnesses. Still, Juvelen is a one man band (real name: Jonas Pettersson) whose songs are crazily influenced by Prince, but thanks to the quality, it's hard to voice any complaints. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't sound that great, but on his hit "Watch your step", it's stars and rainbows all the way. So far Juvelen hasn't released anything 'properly,' but it'll be very interesting to see if whatever he does release will be as good as these three and a half minutes of soulful greatness.

Juvelen - Watch your step