First Aid Kit Artistfacts

2007-
Johanna Söderberg 2007-
Klara Söderberg 2007-
First Aid Kit are a folk duo comprising sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg from Enskede in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden. They create music that blends folk, indie rock, and country, featuring heartfelt lyrics and lilting harmonies.
Johanna and Klara Söderberg's father, Benkt Söderberg, was the guitarist and co-songwriter of the Swedish rock-pop band Lolita Pop from 1979 to 1989. Lolita Pop was a successful band in Sweden, releasing eight albums.

Benkt Söderberg left Lolita Pop to pursue a career as a teacher of history and religion before Johanna was born. He rejoined the band when they reunited in 2019.
The teenage siblings began composing songs in 2007, taking their name at random from an English dictionary. "I was 13, young and naïve and looking through a dictionary, looking for a name," Klara Söderberg told Under The Radar. "Like I wanted something, if I would ever make music, I wanted to have a name for it, and I found First Aid Kit and just liked the meaning of it."
First Aid Kit first gained international recognition in 2008 when they uploaded a cover of the Fleet Foxes song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" to YouTube.
After their first concert in Nashville on October 11, 2010, the Söderberg sisters got a call from Jack White inviting them to his studio the next day. At the studio, White recorded First Aid Kit performing covers of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier" and Mel London's and Tampa Red's "It Hurts Me Too." Released as a vinyl single on White's Third Man Records label in December 2010, it helped raise their profile in the United States.

"Before then, we only recorded songs in her parents' house," First Aid Kit told Uncut magazine. "We told Jack it was the first time in a proper studio. He smiled coyly and said, 'Well, it's all downhill from here.'"

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