Today we’d like to introduce you to Max Lautner.
Hi Max, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I am half-Thai and half-Hungarian and have lived in both countries, but spent most of the last 10 years in Sweden.
I had always known I wanted to work in the creative field, but it was my pre-teens and early teen years that I knew I wanted to be an entertainer. Like many, I started doing comedy skits on YouTube. Then, in middle school we began to have music classes where we played ukulele and did a lot of choir. While I had gone to piano and guitar classes as a little kid, it was not until these middle school classes that I really felt the joy of music. Ukulele and vocal harmonies became a big part of my music – and this is still true with “Savannah-Hannah ’25.”
After playing pop songs in class, I figured I wanted to make something on my own, so I started writing, and I never stopped. Soon after I even began releasing music on YouTube and then all streaming platforms. Since 2019, I have released over 90 songs and have hundreds more in my back pocket.
After my high school education, I began studying at universities and jumping around Sweden for a year. I took some courses in Swedish, Music Theory, and Social Media, among other things. Then in 2023 I started my Bachelor’s in Musicology at Uppsala University, and I am looking to graduate this Spring 2026.
At Uppsala University I have been studying Music Theory, Music History, Music Industry, and Music Sociology, all of which have made a strong base for me to start a full-on music career. During the Spring of 2025, I even had the privilege to do an exchange semester at CSU Cal Poly Pomona in California where I studied courses in Music Business, Music Production, and Performance. There I learned so much about songwriting and how to make it in the music business. I have already started using that knowledge to write, promote my music, and get gigs.
My relation to Savannah comes via my aunt’s family in Atlanta. Spending quite some time there, Savannah was bound to come into our visits, and it inspired my song, “Savannah-Hannah” and “Savannah-Hannah ’25.” In my EPK you can read extensively about how Savannah and this song has been a turning point in my career in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14P-7LFkM89w08TVfRd0m9x2vANRo0aMT/view?usp=drive_link
In the EPK you will even find a link to extra photos.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I am extremely lucky. I was born into a very loving and supportive family. My international background has made it easy for me to understand and bond with people, and I have been able to educate myself in university to maximize my potential. Like most artists, I have times of great insecurity and anxiety, but I have myself and people around me to help fight them, and I battle it by creating work that makes me proud.
Overall, I am so grateful and happy, and I think it spills a lot into my happy-go-lucky themed music. Thus, I think it is only fair that I try to share that with the world.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
My official bio says a bit about me, but below it I will describe some more:
“Max Lautner studies Musicology at Uppsala University. He started playing music at 13 in middle school and has since written a lot of music – over 90 published songs and hundreds in his back pocket. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays, among other instruments, guitar, piano, clarinet, accordion – and he makes his own flutes! Max would describe his music as pop with touches of folk and country. His influences include the Beach Boys, Jack Johnson, Ray Charles, and Jim Croce.”
I also have been performing more regularly and have been using showmanship and principles in customer satisfaction to set myself apart as a musician. In my performances I keep in touch with my roots in comedy, include plenty of audience interaction, and I am even trying to incorporate magic into my show! – It has been difficult to incorporate so far as I am training with fire – and venues don’t like fire.
I have also been collaborating more with singers and producers. The greatest lesson I learned out so far was that this is not a business you want to do alone, and luckily, I have met so many lovely music people that I want to be with – so I might as well work with them!
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
I moved around quite a bit in my childhood. I spent my first seven years in Thailand, moved to Hungary for three, moved back to Thailand, and then spent the last ten years in Sweden. I believe this international background made me quite the social kid as I was very often meeting new people and making new friends. It also matured me a bit, because I had to be very open-minded my whole life.
I was always creative growing up. I was always making crafts as a child. When I was very little, I would spend hours making sculptures from recycled stuff like boxes and bottles. I have also been practicing woodwork my whole life, which has been a tradition on the paternal side of my family; making furniture, sculptures, and any fixings needed around the house. Later, I turned this creativity into making YouTube videos and then learning to play instruments and writing my own music.
Pricing:
- I have been giving out free merch like tote bags, pens, and stickers at shows!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.maxlautner.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxlautnermusic/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/max.lautner.3956/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmeeMIO2AM5Nq7gCo41Popw/featured
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@maxlautnermusics
