Göran BrorBennyAndersson is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he worked also as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester.
Melodifestivalen is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959. In the early 2000s, the competition was the most popular television program in Sweden; it is also broadcast on radio and the Internet. In 2012, the heats averaged 3.3 million viewers, and over an estimated four million people in Sweden watched the final, almost half of the Swedish population.
Carola Maria Häggkvist, commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish pop singer and songwriter. 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. 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". Besides Swedish, she has also released records in Dutch, German, English, Norwegian and Japanese.
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli, known until 2003 by her maiden name, is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven".
Jon Erik Andreas Johnson is a Swedish pop/rock singer-songwriter and musician.
BWO was a Swedish electropop group, formed in 2003. Prior to early 2006 they used the name Bodies Without Organs. In Sweden they have enjoyed considerable commercial success throughout their career, so far notching up 15 Top 40 singles, including a Number 1 with "Temple of Love", and five Top 10 albums including a Number 1 with Halcyon Days, and have won several major Swedish music awards. The group scored major successes in countries like Russia.
Måns Petter Albert Sahlén Zelmerlöw is a Swedish singer and television presenter. He took part in Idol 2005, eventually finishing fifth, won the first season of Let's Dance, and scored a hit with his 2007 song "Cara Mia", which was his entry in that year's Melodifestivalen. Zelmerlöw was the host of Allsång på Skansen from 2011 to 2013. He participated in Melodifestivalen in 2007, 2009 and won in 2015. Zelmerlöw represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Heroes", winning the contest with 365 points. Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 held in Stockholm.
Lee Mulhern, now known as Lee Matthews, is a singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland.
Sarah Dawn Finer is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress. She is also known for playing Lynda Woodruff, a character created by Edward af Sillén to be a parody spokesperson of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest.
Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with "La voix", written by Fredrik Kempe and Malena Ernman, and performed by Ernman herself. The Swedish participating broadcaster, Sveriges Television (SVT), selected its entry through Melodifestivalen 2009.
Alice Cecilia Linh Svensson is a Vietnamese-born Swedish singer. At the age of ten months, Svensson was adopted from her home country Vietnam, and moved to Sweden with her family, and she has since lived in Hedesunda. She finished as runner-up in Idol 2008 and later took part in Melodifestivalen 2017 with the song "Running with Lions".
Melodifestivalen 2010 was a Swedish song contest held in February and March 2010. It was the selection for the 50th song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and was the 49th edition of Melodifestivalen. Five heats were held in the Swedish cities of Örnsköldsvik, Sandviken, Gothenburg and Malmö, with Örebro hosting the final Andra Chansen round.
Industry were a pop group formed in Ireland in 2009. The band comprised Donal Skehan, Morgan Deane, Michele McGrath and Briton Lee Hutton. Industry made their recording debut in 2009 under the independent record label MIG Live, and broke up in 2010.
"You're Out of My Life" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Darin and was Darin's entry in Melodifestivalen 2010. The song was first performed in Deltävling 3 of Melodifestivalen in Göteborg on 20 February 2010 where Darin reached second place and progressed to the final on March 13 in Stockholm. The single was released on 28 February 2010. This is Darin's first physical single release since his departure from Sony Music.
Donal Skehan is an Irish television personality, presenter, food writer, cook, photographer and former singer. He is known for his television appearances, cookbooks and YouTube channel.
Lee Andrew Hutton is an English singer-songwriter.
"Welcome to My Life" is a pop/rock song by Swedish singer Jonathan Fagerlund. He sang it during Melodifestivalen 2009, in a bid to represent Sweden in 2009 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Moscow, Russia.
Welcome to My World is the second album by Swedish singer Jonathan Fagerlund following his debut album Flying. It includes the single "Welcome to My Life" that he performed in 2009 during Melodifestivalen 2009 in a bid to represent Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 2009 to be held in Moscow, Russia.
Flying is the debut album by Swedish singer Jonathan Fagerlund. Jonathan Fagerlund Jonathan Fagerlund, a virtuoso in the Swedish music scene, made an impressive debut in 2008 with his album "Flying". A rising star from Sweden, Fagerlund showcased a prodigious talent in his compositions, masterfully combining catchy melodies with deeply emotional lyrics.
Fuera de Clase also known by its initials as FDC was a Venezuelan pan-Latin musical formation of youth with its own repertoire of songs and dance routines. The formation formed in the early 2000s by artist development producers Ruben Ferrer Rubio and Johnny Nuñez, had a lineup made up of six young performers, Silverio Lozada, Emilio Vizcaino, Luis Fernando Sosa, Hector Astudillo, Marco Verde and Richard Anthony Jones.
