Robyn is the Swedish pop singer, songwriter, and producer from Stockholm who walked away from major-label life to launch her own Konichiwa Records in 2005. The Body Talk trilogy (2010) — home to Dancing on My Own and Call Your Girlfriend — is essential modern pop, with Honey (2018) close behind. Browse Robyn vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Robin Miriam Carlsson, performing as Robyn, was born in Stockholm, Sweden on June 12, 1979. She launched her recording career as a teenager in 1995 with the international hit Do You Know (What It Takes) (international Top 10 single). After creative tensions with RCA Records over her direction, she launched her own Konichiwa Records label in 2005 with the self-titled Robyn (2005), establishing her foundational independent artist trajectory. Her 2010 Body Talk trilogy (Body Talk Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 / Pt. 3, released across the year, plus the 2010 Body Talk compilation combining the trilogy with new material) is widely cited as one of the most important contemporary electronic pop landmarks - featuring the international singles Dancing on My Own, Call Your Girlfriend, and Hang with Me. Her 2018 follow-up Honey continued her trajectory. She is widely cited as one of the most important contemporary electronic pop and indie pop figures, with foundational influence on subsequent pop artists.
Robyn's sound combines electronic pop, indie pop, dance-pop, synth-pop, electroclash, and Eurodance with her distinctive vocal delivery (use of intimate phrasing and emotional directness), atmospheric production approaches (collaboration with Klas Åhlund, Kindness, the Knife / Röyksopp), and lyrical content addressing relationships, identity, and emotional experience drawing on confessional songwriting traditions alongside contemporary electronic pop influences.
Konichiwa Records, RCA Records, and Cherrytree pressings of the Robyn catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Robyn typically start with Body Talk (2010) or Honey (2018).
