Barbara Hendricks is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citizen.
Louise Viktoria Tolstoy is a Swedish jazz singer of Russian ancestry. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy was a regular studio guest in season one of the television series Big Brother in 2000.
Nils Landgren is a Swedish R&B, funk, and jazz trombone player and singer. He is known as The Man with the Red Horn because he plays a red trombone.
Josefine Cronholm is a Swedish jazz vocalist and a singer-songwriter, who has won two Danish Jazz Grammy Awards. Her debut album, Wild Garden was released in 2002. She also provided a cover of The Carpenters' Close to You and an original song called "If I Apologised" for the film MirrorMask. She sang on the Django Bates Album Quiet Nights in 1998.
Pitsj is a female Norwegian a cappella quintet. The band consists of Anine and Benedikte Kruse, the twin sisters Ane Carmen and Ida Roggen, and Anja Eline Skybakmoen.
Ulf Karl Erik Wakenius is a Swedish jazz guitarist, known as a member of Oscar Peterson's last quartet from 1997. He was also a member of the Ray Brown trio.
Are U 4 Real? is a Swedish young adult book written by Sara Kadefors. It was originally written as a script for a television drama, but after a Swedish television network turned it down, Kadefors got Bonnier Carlsen to publish it as a book in 2001. On 7 April 2009 it was revealed that the book would be released in the United States on 14 May 2009 with a new title, Are U 4 Real? The book is about a girl named Ida who lives in Stockholm and a boy named Sandor who lives in Gothenburg. The two sixteen-year-olds meet for the first time on an Internet chat room, where they eventually fall in love with each other. However, everything goes wrong when Sandor decides to visit Ida in Stockholm.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1977.
Lina Nyberg is a Swedish jazz singer and composer. She has composed works for string quartet, big band, and symphony orchestra. She is married to the Swedish jazz clarinettist and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist.
Renáta Göncz is a Hungarian lyric soprano, opera singer, founding member of the Moltopera Company, and regular partner of Kayamar.
Ellen Linnea Petrea Henriksson is a Swedish singer and songwriter who participated in Idol 2010 in which she placed fourth. As of April 2018, she is also the lead singer of the jazz band Prylf. In 2012, Henriksson released her first music album, which she co-wrote and co-produced with singer Orup. During mid-2013, Henriksson toured Sweden with the band Gyllene Tider.
Ane Carmen Stuve Roggen is a Norwegian singer, conductor, arranger, and journalist. She is the younger sister of jazz singer Live Maria Roggen and the twin sister of jazz singer Ida Roggen.
ACT is a German record label founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch. It is a division of ACT Music + Vision founded by Loch and Annette Humpe in 1988. ACT started as a pop music label but folded soon after it started. Loch turned it into a jazz label, at first reissuing music he had recorded for Liberty, Philips, and WEA before turning to new recordings.
Rigmor Elisabeth Gustafsson is a Swedish jazz singer.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2015 in Swedish music.
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2015.
The following events in Swedish music occurred in the year 2017.
Ida May Mack or Ida Mae Mack was an American classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter. She recorded eight songs in 1928, four of which she recorded twice. Six of these tracks were released at the time.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Swedish music.
Ida Johanna Lundén is a contemporary Swedish composer and jazz pianist. She has specialized mainly in electronic and chamber music but has also written works for theatre and film. She has become known for her unusual combination of instruments such as viola and potatoes or double bass and bass singers.
