The Story Behind The Glory

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 At the beginning of the world shutdown in 2020, Los Angeles based Swedish-born bass player Victor Brodén found himself locked out of his normal touring work, like many other professional “sidemen”. He decided to write some songs to get some practice with digital recording, not necessarily with the intention of letting anyone hear them. The stylistic choice was obvious, straight-down-the-middle AOR, the musical equivalent of sugary comfort food to brighten up the uncertain times. The idea was to incorporate every single trick from the glorious AOR classics he grew up on. Calls were quickly made to guitarist R.J Ronquillo and keyboardist Fred Kron, Brodén’s long-time buddies from the freshman class of 1996 at the music school at the University of Miami. Victor knew these were the musicians needed to make the music what it needed to be. Once Kron and Ronquillo were officially on board, it was obvious the project had to become a real band and Transatlantic Radio was born! The missing and most important piece, the front man came in the form of Mattias Osbäck in Brodén's birth country of Sweden and lastly the absolute world-class drummer Chris Reeve, was added. The other band members quickly starting contributing to the writing and the internet only band was off to an official start. Please see our "Meet The Band" section to learn more about the individual members.