Per Håkan Gessle (born January 12, 1959) is the songwriter and male lead singer of the Swedish bands Gyllene Tider and Roxette. He was born in Halmstad, Sweden.

He was a founding member of Gyllene Tider in 1979, and together with a friend, singer Marie Fredriksson, began Roxette in 1984.

He has also participated with the Swedish singer Nisse Hellberg in the project The Lonely Boys .

As of 2004, he has released four solo albums:

• Self-titled Per Gessle in 1983,
• Scener in 1986,
• The World According To Gessle in 1997, and
• Mazarin in late 2003.

The album Mazarin is 5 times platinum as of February 2004 in Sweden. Only The World According To Gessle is in English, the others are in Swedish. Per Gessle and Scener were re-released together with a demo album in 1992 as På Väg . In 1997 Hjärtats Trakt was released, a best-of album.

External links

• The Daily Roxette (Latest Per Gessle news)
• per gessle . net (Gessle's website)