Habits (Stay High)



Hanna Jäger (born 1998 in Vaxholm, Sweden), known simply as Yaeger is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. The woman also known as Hanna Jäger has always known she wanted to pursue a career in music. Where many artists question themselves and the business along the way, it was a talent show in her eighth-grade that presented the realisation it might also be her calling. I was standing on the stage for the first time and just realised the kick I got from that, Hanna tells me. I do a lot of sports and get the same kicks from it. So, when I got on stage I was like, 'There's nothing like this.' And I knew. After such a realisation became hard to escape, Hanna knew the next step she was going to have to naturally take - to leave the school she was at to audition for one more suited to her talent, desire, and hopes and dreams: music college. As she tells it, the school she originally went to was in Vaxholm; the small area of Stockholm in which she grew up. I just wanted out, Hanna says, matter-of-factly. I wanted to get into the city and leave stuff behind. Although there were music schools close by, she also knew that if she really wanted to pursue music as a career, they weren't the ones in which she could do it: It was Rytmus or Sodra Latin. For Hanna, the clear choice was Rytmus: “I was like, ‘I’m gonna go there. I’m gonna get in.’ If we're talking likenesses to the UK, Rytmus Music School is along the lines of the BRIT school. If you want to seriously pursue a career in music, Rytmus is the place to do it. Offering its students classes on media and music production, songwriting, and instruments. Students can borrow guitars, use the school's pianos, utilise mixing decks and the latest in new software. Its alumni also include Robyn and Tove Lo. Hanna auditioned with the song Bubbly by Colbie Caillat and treats me to an impromptu singalong of the all-too-catchy this-won’t-leave-your-brain-for-days-sorry 2007 hit right there on the beach. As nervous as she was at the time, the audition scored her a place at Rytmus and, by extension, a way to truly begin honing her craft. Because that’s what it is, she says: “People have to respect that. It’s a job; it’s a career.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.