Former Cardigan Nina Persson on knitting clever
She’s the singer with The Cardigans but there’s a lot more to Nina Persson. As she releases her first solo album proper, she mues on creativity, motherhood and being her own boss
‘I had a child three years ago, and when that big change came into my life I started to think how the hell does a woman continue working as a musician and a singer?”
Nina Persson soon figured out that, as a mother, being a solo performer made her career more flexible in more ways that she had ever imagined – and that narrowing down her options for a while didn’t necessarily squeeze her out of the game. “It was quite a logistical decision, but when I really started think about the solo thing I began to realise how unafraid of it I was.”