Carola Maria Häggkvist, commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish pop singer. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music. Her debut album, Främling (1983), sold around one million copies and remains the biggest-selling album in Swedish music history. She has also worked as a songwriter. During her career, she has recorded many top-selling albums and singles and is referred to as Sweden's most prominent female singer. Some of her biggest hits are "Främling", "Tommy tycker om mig", "Fångad av en stormvind", "All the Reasons to Live", "I Believe in Love", "Genom allt", and "Evighet". She has released records in various languages: Swedish, Dutch, German, English, Norwegian and Japanese.
"Ack Värmeland, du sköna" or "Värmlandsvisan" is a Swedish popular song, best known in the English-speaking world as "Dear Old Stockholm".
Ann-Kristin "Kikki" Danielsson is a Swedish country, dansband and pop singer. Sometimes, she also plays the accordion and she has also written some lyrics. She has gained notice for yodeling in some songs. Danielsson gained her largest popularity in the Nordic region from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. She also gained popularity at the US country stage during the 1980s. In 1986, she had the "Kikki i Nashville" TV show.
The Grammis are music awards presented annually to musicians and songwriters in Sweden. The oldest Swedish music awards, they were instituted as a local equivalent of the Grammy Awards given in the United States. The awards ceremony is generally held each year in February in Stockholm. The awards were established in 1969 and awarded until 1972 when they were cancelled, then revived in 1987.
Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm is a Swedish singer, songwriter and television host.
Erik Tommy Nilsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer, actor and musical artist.
Sven Thomas Magnusson, known by his stage names Thomas Di Leva or simply Di Leva, is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
Uno Svenningsson is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has been active in music since the late 1970s. He was the singer in the pop group "Freda'" in the early 1980s and early 1990s, and the group had hit songs like "Vindarna" and "Det gör mig så lycklig".
Monica Kristina Ingeborg Törnell is a Swedish singer and songwriter. After being discovered by Cornelis Vreeswijk 1971, she was a prominent singer in several genres, mainly folk and rock music, for over two decades. Together with Lasse Holm, she represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 in Bergen, Norway. She is the mother of Tobias and Mattias Törnell.
Svante Henryson is a composer, cellist, bass guitarist and double bassist, active within jazz, classical music, and hard rock.
Så mycket bättre is a Swedish reality television show broadcast on TV4. The basic premise is that each participating musician performs their own version of a well-known song by another artist, with each episode focusing on every participant performing a different song by the same artist. The musicians spend eight days together at a hotel in Gotland, where they re-interpret the songs in their own styles.
David Urwitz is a Swedish singer and musician.
Toni Holgersson is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
Anders Lundström is a Swedish songwriter and record producer. He is also a country recording artist who has released in January 2013 an album Stay True with the stage name MAV. At various times earlier in his career he was also known as A.L. Sweet, Lucka and during his Rednex days (2006–2008) as Maverick.
"God morgon" is a song written by Uno Svenningsson and Staffan Hellstrand, and performed by Uno Svenningsson and Irma Schultz Keller at Melodifestivalen 2007. The song participated in the semifinal in the town of Jönköping on 3 February 2007, from where it reached Andra chansen. Once there the song failed to reach the final inside the Stockholm Globe Arena. The song's lyrics describes morning arriving in a town. On 5 March 2007, the single for the song was released, peaking at number 18 on the Swedish Singles Chart.
Idde Schultz,Eva Ann-Ida Schultz, is a Swedish female singer and guitarist. She is a member of the band Docenterna and former member of Lars Winnerbäck's band Hovet. She is the sister of Irma Schultz Keller. She has scored record successes at the Swedish charts during the mid-late 1990s and the 2000s.
Leif Bloms was a dansband in Växjö in Sweden. scoring chart successes at the Swedish album chart during the mid-late 1970s. On 31 December 1995 the band was disbanded after singing and playing together for almost 40 years. Starting with the 1981 album Håll dig kvar, the band's singer was Mona Gustafsson, who wrote the band's 1992 song "Dej ska jag älska all min tid" which won the 1992 Hänt song contest in Älvsjö. After the band was disbanded, Mona Gustafsson, Patrik Ahlm and René Saulesco founded another dansband, Mona G:s orkester.
Sånger för december was released on 22 November 2006, and is a Christmas album by Uno Svenningsson and Irma Schultz Keller, with guests. The Christmas songs were newly-written and newly-translated original songs, but no traditional Christmas songs in Sweden.
December: En svensk jul is a Christmas album by Uno Svenningsson and Irma Schultz Keller, released in 2011.
