The original setup was done in 1999 under the name Tender and had three members. In 2000 they changed to Takida and released their first record, a 5 track demo album named Old.
Currently Takida consists of Robert Pettersson (vocals), Tomas Wallin (guitar), Mattias Larsson (guitar,) Fredrik Pålsson (bass) and Kristoffer Söderström (drums).
In 2005 they were signed to their first record label and released their debut album, Make You Breathe (released in April 2006 in Sweden). They had before that released some material on their own, one full album and four singles.
Their latest album, Bury the lies was released in 2007 and they had a number one hit in Sweden with the second single, Curly Sue, from that album. Curly Sue was number one for 10 weeks.
You can view a couple videos at their MySpace page: www.myspace.com/takidamusic
