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Carola Maria Häggkvist, also known as simply Carola, is a Swedish 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. 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.
Odd Nordstoga is a folk singer, musician, actor and editor from Vinje in Telemark, Norway. In 2004, he went from relative obscurity to becoming the country's biggest selling recording artist, with the phenomenal success of his first solo album proper, "Luring". The album, a fusion of pop and Norwegian folk music, has sold more than 160,000 copies in Norway to date and earned him several Spellemannsprisen awards. For the album Strålande Jul, released together with Sissel Kyrkjebø, he won an unprecedented 11 Norwegian platinum trophies.
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli is a Swedish singer and occasional television host. She was the winner of the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven."
Gemini are a Swedish brother and sister duo, consisting of Karin Glenmark and Anders Glenmark. The duo released two original albums: Gemini (1985) and Geminism (1987). Both albums reached the Swedish Top 20, while their success was limited to Scandinavia. Their only truly international release was the single "Just Like That".
Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer, actor and musical artist.
Kayode Maria Söderberg Shekoni, better known as Kayo Shekoni, or just Kayo, is a Swedish singer and actress of Nigerian descent. Her name "Kayode" means "he or she brought joy" in the Yoruba language.
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".
Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz musician. He started his career as a drummer before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963. Svante won the national selection and represented Sweden in the Eurovision song contest in 1966 with "Nygammal vals" and came in second place; he performed with Lill Lindfors.
Peaches was a Swedish child duo that was active from 2000 to 2005.
Galenskaparna och After Shave is the collaborative name of two Swedish comedy groups, Galenskaparna and After Shave, from Gothenburg. In 1982 the two groups joined in order to collaborate on the revue show Skruven är lös, and the collaboration has continued. Since the early 1980s, Galenskaparna och After Shave have produced nearly 28 revues, restaurant shows, and tours, as well as 8 movies, 5 television series and 30 studio albums.
Ainbusk are a pop/folk vocal group from Gotland, Sweden. Formed in 1983, Ainbusk are best known for their single "Jag mötte Lassie" – frequently referred to simply as "Lassie" – which was the Christmas chart-topper in Sweden in 1990. They have released four studio albums, one live album and one compilation. Their music mixes pop with traditional Swedish influences; they have also recorded Swedish versions of English-language songs. In 2008, they participated unsuccessfully in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selection, Melodifestivalen.
Frans Jeppsson Wall, better known as Frans, is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He won Melodifestivalen 2016 and represented the host nation, Sweden, in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, with the song "If I Were Sorry" finishing in fifth place.
"Who's da Man" is a Swedish song performed by Elias, featuring Swedish singer Frans. The song was released as a digital download in Sweden on 17 May 2006. The song is dedicated to the Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimović. It is sung in the Scanian dialect of Swedish. The song was the biggest summer Swedish hit of 2006, staying at the top of the charts for 10 consecutive weeks. Elias and Frans also performed the song at Allsång på Skansen.
Martin Svensson also known as Martin is a Swedish singer, author and musician.
"'Gubben i lådan" is a Swedish language song by Swedish artist Daniel Adams-Ray taken from his 2010 debut album Svart, vitt och allt däremellan released on Sweden Music and reaching the top of the Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Singles Chart staying four 4 weeks at #1. It was the 2nd single from the album following his debut single "Dum av dig". "Gubben i lådan" was written and produced by Adams-Ray himself and songwriter Carl Wikström Ask.
Sockerbagaren, is a Danish song rewritten by Alice Tegnér. Tegnér's version was published in volume 3 of Sjung med oss, mamma! in 1895.
Prästens lilla kråka is a Swedish singing game, now also a children's song, which is used when dancing around the Christmas tree and the Midsummer pole. There are several versions of whose little crow it is, for example Mormors ("grandmother's"), Mosters ("Aunt's"), Prostens and so on. However, prästens is the most common.
"If I Were Sorry" is a song by Swedish singer Frans. The song was released in Sweden as a digital download on 28 February 2016, and was written by Frans along with Fredrik Andersson, Michael Saxell and Oscar Fogelström. It took part in Melodifestivalen 2016, and qualified to the final from the fourth semi-final. It later won the finale with 156 points and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 where it placed fifth. In the weeks after the semifinal appearance the song charted in the Spotify Viral charts in Switzerland, Taiwan, Iceland, Uruguay, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States, Norway, France, Denmark, Turkey and Germany.
Da Man is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Frans. It was released in December 2006 in Sweden through Universal Music AB. It has peaked at number 20 on the Swedish Albums Chart. The album includes the singles "Who's da Man" and "Kul med Jul".
Anna Linnea Södahl, better known as Nea is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Nea was born in South Africa, where her parents were working against the apartheid system, she later grew up in Alingsås, Sweden.