Mats Nileskär

Swedish music journalist at Sveriges Radio, formerly Nilsson, born 29 May 1959. He has been the host of the P3 Soul radio program since 1978; the program's name until the 1990s was Soul Corner. Nileskär has done many interviews with representatives of the soul, funk and hip-hop genres and has meant a lot to the interest in African-American popular music in Sweden. In December 2009, Mats Nileskär did his 6,000th interview. Mats Nileskär was awarded the Kerstin M Lundberg prize in 2014 with the justification "because for decades he has been Sweden's foremost and most loving introducer of soul, hip-hop and r'n'b, and not least because he has managed to attract the most discerning superstars to his microphone ". In 2018, he was awarded Lukas Bonnier's great journalism prize.