YOU’VE PROBABLY SUNG HIS SONGS. YOU JUST NEVER KNEW HIS NAME.
Meet Swedish Songwriter Jonas Myrin.
Most people have never heard of Jonas Myrin.
But Barbra Streisand has. So has Andrea Bocelli. Delta Goodrem. Diane Keaton. Lauren Daigle. Tasha Cobbs Leonard. John Legend.
The people who move culture — the ones with the voices, the stages, the audiences of millions — they know exactly who Jonas is. Because at some point, he was in the room with them. At the piano. Chasing the song.
Jonas Myrin, From Örebro to the World.
Jonas Myrin grew up in Örebro, Sweden, dreaming about writing songs that could find someone who needed them. At seventeen, he moved to London alone to study music and drama, no connections, no industry map, just an instinct that the songs were worth following.
They were.
His breakthrough came co-writing "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" with Matt Redman, a song that didn't just chart, it embedded itself into the fabric of contemporary worship music worldwide, sung in churches on every continent and counting billions of streams. It earned Jonas his first Grammy Award. It’s just one of many modern day anthems and hymne he has penned. His catalogue of songs holds close to 250 published works.
Just under ten years ago he picked up the phone when Barbra Streisand called. Following that conversation, Jonas wrote and co-produced four songs on Walls, her first studio album in a decade, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. For a kid from Örebro, it was — as Jonas puts it — surreal.
The Rooms He Kept Getting Invited Back Into
What followed was a career defined less by genre than by the quality of the rooms he kept getting invited back into.
Andrea Bocelli — twice. Once for "Gloria (The Gift of Life)," and again for A Family Christmas, the best-selling new Christmas album in the United States in 2022, co-written with Bocelli, Amy Wadge and Stephan Moccio. Idina Menzel. Nicole Scherzinger. Céline Dion. Vanessa Paradis. Artists across Brazil, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
Some of those rooms go back further than the credits suggest. Jonas and Natasha Bedingfield have been close friends since they were seventeen — two self-taught songwriters who met in London, read Songwriting for Dummies together, and made a pact with the craft long before anyone was listening.
When Jonas composed "Together in This" — the end title track for the animated film Jungle Beat: The Movie — he wrote it with Natasha's voice in mind, and she felt it the moment she heard it. What neither planned was the timing: Jonas's father passed away from COVID-19 just days before they recorded together. Natasha had been his father's favourite singer in the world. Jonas showed up anyway.
"This would be the most beautiful gift I could give my dad at this time — because he just loved when we sang together."
— Jonas Myrin
And in 2024, an Academy Award-winning actress with a lifelong dream she'd never acted on.
Diane Keaton had always wanted to record an original song. Jonas sat down with her and the legendary Carole Bayer Sager, and they wrote "First Christmas" — featuring the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, reaching No. 1 in 22 countries. When Diane called Jonas in tears to tell him it was one of the greatest gifts of her career, neither of them knew it would become her final recording. She passed on 11 October 2025. The song carries her voice into the future.
"I'm heartbroken by Diane's passing. To have been trusted to help bring her lifelong dream of recording an original song to life was a moment I'll carry with me forever. In the studio, she filled the room with laughter and little jokes that kept us smiling. I will never forget when she called me in tears, telling me that getting to sing this song was one of the greatest gifts of her career. Diane was fearless, curious, and full of heart in everything she did. Her voice, her heart, and her art will live on in those notes and in the legacy she leaves behind."
— Jonas Myrin
Crafting Songs For Film & Television
Away from the collaborations, Jonas has scored films and television — composing for Angel Studios' animated feature David, which grossed over $82 million worldwide and opened at No. 2 at the US box office, and writing original music for Amazon Prime Video's House of David, one of the platform's most-watched series of 2025. His screen credits also include the motion pictures Fatima, Jungle Beat: The Movie and The Three Wise Men.
Together, We're Never Alone
Jonas released his debut solo single "Not Alone" in 2020, co-written with Crispin Hunt and featuring Erik Arvinder conducting the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. The song grew from a deeply personal place.
"I originally wrote 'Not Alone' as a reminder to my own soul. I was living in London, walking down Oxford Street, surrounded by people everywhere — yet overcome with this feeling of loneliness. Sometimes, the biggest city full of sounds and large crowds can feel like the loneliest place.
I realised that maybe I'm not the only one feeling this way. I was not alone after all.
In the middle of my own grief, losing my dad, I chose to use my pain and turn it into purpose and a song. To me, music is a way for us to feel connected to something bigger than ourselves. My desire is that 'Not Alone' will give others hope in what they're going through. We can all find faith if we are willing to open up our hearts. Together, we're never alone."
— Jonas Myrin
The Simple Power of a Song
"I grew up in a town in Sweden dreaming that one day I might write songs that could reach out and find someone who needed them. As songwriters we spend thousands of hours chasing melodies and ideas in small rooms, often not really knowing where they will go or who they might reach.
So standing there on the Grammy stage, receiving awards for a song that had made an impact on so many people around the world, was one of those surreal moments where life suddenly feels bigger than you ever imagined.
Moments like that fill me with deep gratitude and remind me of the power of a song.
In the end, it always comes down to one simple question: can it touch one person? Because if it can touch one person, it can touch millions. That's why whenever I sit down at the piano, I try to remind myself of something simple:
Don't reach for the charts. Reach for hearts.
— Jonas Myrin