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Fredrik Kempe
Fredrik Kempe (born 29 April 1972) is a Swedish songwriter and opera and pop singer, who was born in Vårgårda. He has participated in Swedish versions of the musicals ''Les Misérables'' and ''Chess''. In 2002, Kempe had a hit with ''Vincerò'', where he mixed opera and Euro disco. He was a jury member in '' Idol 2016'' which was broadcast on TV4. From 2013 to 2020, he was married to Christoffer Järkeborn. Melodifestivalen Kempe has participated in Melodifestivalen twice as a performer. He entered Melodifestivalen 2004 with the song "Finally", a tribute to his favourite composer Benny Andersson and in 2005 together with Sanna Nielsen singing ''Du och jag mot världen''. In Melodifestivalen 2007, he co-wrote three songs. One was "Cara Mia", performed by Måns Zelmerlöw and another was " Vågar du, vågar jag", performed by Sanna Nielsen. In Melodifestivalen 2008 he co-wrote the music and wrote the lyrics to the winning entry, "Hero", performed by Charlotte Perrelli. Once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodifestivalen 2007
2007 was the 47th edition of the Swedish music competition , which was organised by (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 3 February and 10 March 2007. The winner of the competition was the band The Ark with the song " The Worrying Kind", who represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, where they came eighteenth with 51 points. Format The heats for Melodifestivalen 2007 began on 3 February 2007. Ten songs from these heats qualified for the final on 10 March 2007. Second chance round changes On 15 August 2006, SVT announced that the second chance round, which had by then taken place on the Sunday after the last heat, would be turned into a full Saturday night show. That meant that Melodifestivalen 2007 would become a six-week competition, rather than the five-week event it had been the previous years. As well as turning the second chance round into a main show in an arena, the voting for it was also changed. A knock-out system was introduced where each o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Lund
Regina Charlotta Theodora Lund (born 17 July 1967) is a Swedish celebrity, award-winning actress, Swedish Grammy nominated artist, singer-songwriter, poet, writer, model, comedian and awarded painter. Regina Lund is a well-known household name in Sweden for film, television, radio, and theatre, as well as musicals and dramas on stage. Soon after acting school, she played Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by the eldest son of Ingmar Bergman, Jan Bergman, which toured throughout Sweden. Regina Lund has been famous for constantly creating and working both in underground and mainstream productions. Early life Born to director Christian Lund (1943–2007) and actress Sonja Lund (b. 1942) in Vaasa, Finland, while her parents were working there in theatre. Regina grew up in Gävle, Gävle, Sweden with her grandparents. From the age of 10 to 18, Regina spent summers with family members in the United States and was an exchange student in Salt Lake City throughout her last year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Ljunggren
Bobby Ljunggren (born 6 June 1961) is a Swedish songwriter. He has entered the Eurovision Song Contest as a composer six times, five times for his native Sweden (1995, 1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010), and once for Lithuania, in 2005. He is a veteran of the Melodifestivalen competition, with 50 entries, reaching the milestone of half a century of entries at Melodifestivalen 2020. In Melodifestivalen 2008, he co-wrote both the winning song and the songs placing second and third. Eurovision Song Contest national finals entries ;Melodifestivalen entries (Sweden) ; Lithuanian national finals entries ;Eurosong entries (Belgium) ;Dansk Melodi Grand Prix entries (Denmark) ;''Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu'' entries (Finland) ;''Eesti Laul Eesti Laul () is an annual music competition organised by Estonian public broadcaster (ERR). It determines for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged every year since Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, 2009. Eesti Laul was . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undo (Sanna Nielsen Song)
"Undo" is a song by Swedish singer Sanna Nielsen. The track was written and composed by Fredrik Kempe, David Kreuger, Hamed "K-One" Pirouzpanah. It premiered on 8 February 2014, as part of the second semi-final in Melodifestivalen 2014. The song successfully progressed to the final. The single was officially released on 23 February 2014, part of the EP of the same title. Undo is an uptempo ballad. On 8 March, the song won the Melodifestivalen 2014 final beating Ace Wilder's " Busy Doin' Nothin'" by only two points and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in the first semifinal on 6 May. In the final, on 10 May 2014, after the results came through, "Undo" finished the contest in 3rd place with 218 points. With this score, "Undo" became the second highest scoring Swedish entry at Eurovision after Euphoria. "Undo" won the OGAE vote with 354 winning the voting after all countries had voted. "Undo" was sung by Lucia Wu, a Chinese singer from Brazil on Season 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Saade
Eric Khaled Saade (; , ; born 29 October 1990) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He spent two years with the boy band What's Up!, leaving the band in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. Saade represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Popular (Eric Saade song), Popular", finishing in third place. Early life Saade was born in Kattarp, a small village in Helsingborg Municipality, Scania, Sweden, to Marlene Jacobsson, a Swedes, Swede, and Walid Saade, a Palestinians in Lebanon, Palestinian from Lebanon. After his parents divorced when he was four, he lived with his mother. Saade is the second of eight siblings and half-siblings. Saade began singing after seeing Michael Jackson on TV, and his other musical influences are Robbie Williams, Bryan Adams, the Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake. Career 2007: What's Up! In 2007, Saade was a founding member of What's Up!, a Swedish boy band which included Robin Stjernber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malena Ernman
Sara Magdalena Ernman (born 4 November 1970), professionally known as Malena Ernman, is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "La Voix (song), La Voix", finishing in 21st place. Life and career Early life Ernman was born in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala, Sweden, and spent her childhood and school years in Sandviken. She was educated at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Music Conservatory in Orléans, France, and the school of the Royal Swedish Opera. She is married to actor Svante Thunberg, with whom she had appeared in a 2000 Swedish television musical documentary about the composer Joseph Martin Kraus, played by Thunberg. Together they have two daughters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Voix (song)
"La voix" (; "The voice") is a song by Swedish singer Malena Ernman, which served as the entry at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Moscow, Russia. It was composed by Fredrik Kempe, with lyrics by both Kempe and Ernman. It is the first Swedish entry to contain lyrics in French, as well as being the last Swedish entry to have contained lyrics in a language other than English before KAJ's 2025 entry Bara bada bastu. Despite the fact that 's Patricia Kaas would get a relatively good placing in the final, Ernman drew further attention to Francophone culture in the semi-final, as well in the grand final (by classing 3rd in the OGAE Second Chance round), despite her ultimate placing (21st). The song was the winner of Melodifestivalen 2009 on 14 March 2009, earning the right to compete for Sweden in the first semi-final of Eurovision 2009 on 12 May 2009. The song qualified for the final round where it finished 21st place with 33 points, making it Sweden's second lowest plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Perrelli
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli (; ; born 7 October 1974), 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". Since 1999 Perrelli has released seven albums and multiple singles. She once again won Melodifestivalen in 2008 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with her song "Hero". She is one of Sweden's most popular female singers, often performing at Sweden's top shows. Throughout her career, she has worked with different types of music, ranging from dansband and schlager, via modern pop, to soulful ballads and jazz melodies. Biography 1987–1998 Born in Hovmantorp, in the southern Swedish province of Småland, at the age of thirteen Nilsson joined a local dansband, Bengt Ingvars, which became "Bengt Ingvars med Charlotte". After finishing her compulsory school education, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero (Charlotte Perrelli Song)
"Hero" is a 2008 Pop music, pop song performed by the Swedes, Swedish singer Charlotte Perrelli, written by Fredrik Kempe and Bobby Ljunggren. It was entered into the Melodifestivalen 2008, winning at the Ericsson Globe, Globen arena on 15 March 2008. Due to this, it represented at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia. The single (music), single "Hero" was released on 12 March 2008. It topped the Swedish Singles chart, and was certified Gold, in recognition of 10,000 copies sold. After the contest, it was Platinum certification, certified Platinum, as 40,000 copies sold. The song entered the 3rd place at Svensktoppen on 13 April 2008, and it stayed on the chart for eight weeks until 1 June 2008 peaking at #3. The Swedish single top 100, she peaked at #1 for 5 weeks, and left the charts after 19 weeks. Her position in the 'best of all time' is #503 with 769 points. Melodifestivalen and Eurovision "Hero" participated in the fourth heat of the 2008 Melodifestivalen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodifestivalen 2008
2008 was the 48th edition of the Swedish music competition , which was organised by (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 9 February and 15 March 2008. The winner of the competition was Charlotte Perrelli with the song "Hero", who represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, where she came eighteenth with 47 points. Format Melodifestivalen 2008 included 32 songs split up into four heats with eight participants in each. The heats were held between 9 February and 1 March 2008 and at each, the two top placing songs went to the final, while the third and fourth place songs went to the Andra Chansen (Second Chance Round). At the second chance round, held on 8 March 2008, the eight songs paired off in two rounds with the two winners at the end of the night qualifying for the final. The final was held on 15 March 2008 and included the eight songs from the heats along with the two from the Andra Chansen to make ten songs in all. It was hosted by Kristian Luuk, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
