Petter (rapper)

Petter
Petter opening Orange Scene on Roskilde Festival 2009
Background information
Birth name	Petter Alexis Askergren
Also known as	Petter
Born	(1974-05-25) 25 May 1974 (age 42) Sweden
Genres	Rap
Occupation(s)	Rapper
Website	www.petter.nu

Petter Alexis Askergren, (born 25 May 1974), who simply uses his given name Petter as a stage name, is a rap artist from , Sweden, rapping in Swedish. He debuted in 1998 with the album Mitt sjätte sinne (My Sixth Sense), which became a success and started the Swedish hip hop boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He owns a record company called Bananrepubliken (English: The Banana Republic). He also studied art history at Uppsala University for some time. He has also worked with the famous Norwegian rap producer Tommy Tee several times in his career. Petter also frequently works with Swedish disk jockey Patrik Elofsson who goes by the stage name DJ Sleepy.

In 2014 he hosted Musikhjälpen in Uppsala.