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Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, '' Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 10 singles: " Do You Know (What It Takes)" and " Show Me Love". Her second and third albums, ''
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'' (1999) and '' Don't Stop the Music'' (2002), were released in Sweden. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, ''
Robyn Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 t ...
'' (2005), which brought a
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nomination. The album spawned the singles " Be Mine!" and the UK number one " With Every Heartbeat". Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums in 2010, known as the '' Body Talk'' series. They received broad critical praise and three Grammy Award nominations, and produced three top-10 singles: "
Dancing On My Own "Dancing On My Own" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Robyn, released on 20 April 2010 as the lead single from her fifth studio album, '' Body Talk Pt. 1'' (2010), the first in her ''Body Talk'' series. "Dancing On My Own" was produced b ...
", " Hang with Me" and " Indestructible". Robyn followed this with two collaborative EPs: '' Do It Again'' (2014) with
Röyksopp Röyksopp (), a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø formed in 1998. The duo consists of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. Berge and Brundtland were introduced to each other through a mutual friend in Tromsø, Norway. They enjoy ...
, and ''
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'' (2015) with La Bagatelle Magique. She released her eighth solo album, ''
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'', in 2018 to widespread acclaim.


Career


1989–1993: Early career

Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film '' The Journey to Melonia''. Directed by
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, the film is loosely based on
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's '' The Tempest''. She recorded ''"Du kan alltid bli nummer ett"'' ("You Can Always be Number One"), the theme song for the Swedish television show ''Lilla Sportspegeln'', in 1991 at age 12. Robyn performed her first original song at that age on another television show, '' Söndagsöppet'' (''Sundays''). She was discovered by Swedish pop singer
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in the early 1990s when Meja and her band, Legacy of Sound, visited Robyn's school as part of a musical workshop. Impressed by Robyn's performance, Meja contacted her management and a meeting was arranged with Robyn and her parents. At age 14, after completing middle school education in 1993, Robyn signed with Ricochet Records Sweden (which was acquired by BMG in 1994). Robyn collaborated with producers
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and
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, who gave the singer a gritty (but popular) sound.


1994–1998: ''Robyn Is Here''

She began her pop-music career at age 15, signing with
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in 1994 and releasing her debut single (" You've Got That Somethin') in Sweden. Later that year, Robyn's Swedish breakthrough came with the single " Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect)". The singles became part of the album '' Robyn Is Here'', which was released in October 1995. Robyn also contributed vocals to Blacknuss' 1996 single, "Roll with Me." She entered Sweden's pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 as co-writer and producer of "
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" ("You Make Me Whole Again"), which was performed by
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. In
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, the song finished fourth. Robyn's US breakthrough came in late 1997, when the dance-pop/ R&B singles " Show Me Love" and " Do You Know (What It Takes)" reached the top 10 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. She performed "Show Me Love" on the American children's show ''
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'' that year, and the songs also performed well in the UK. Robyn re-released "Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect)" internationally, but it was less successful than the other releases. It was ineligible for the US charts because there was no retail single available, but it reached number 32 on the
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chart. "Show Me Love" was featured in the 1998
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film, '' Fucking Åmål'', and the song's title was used as the title of the film in
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countries. As Robyn's popularity grew internationally, she was diagnosed with exhaustion and returned to Sweden to recover.


1999–2004: ''My Truth'' and ''Don't Stop the Music''

Robyn's second album, ''
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'', was released in Sweden in May 1999 and subsequently in Europe. The single, "
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", was a commercial success and propelled ''My Truth'' to the number-two position in Sweden. The autobiographical album included the tracks "Universal Woman" and "Giving You Back". Despite her US success with '' Robyn Is Here'', ''My Truth'' was not released in that country, partly because it included two songs which referenced an abortion she had in her teens. Robyn contributed to
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's 1999 debut solo album, ''Quel Bordel'' (''What a Mess''), appearing on "Remember" and "Celebration". The following year, she appeared on "Intro/Fristil" on Petter's self-titled album. In 2001, Robyn performed "Say You'll Walk the Distance" for the soundtrack of '' On the Line''. She signed a worldwide deal with Jive Records in July 2001, moving from BMG after the singer was "disillusioned with the lack of artistic control hehad there"; a year later, Jive was acquired by BMG when it bought Zomba Records. Robyn later said, "I was back where I started!" In October 2002, she released the album '' Don't Stop the Music'' in Sweden. The album's singles, " Keep This Fire Burning" and " Don't Stop the Music", received airplay in Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. The title track was later covered by the Swedish girl group
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, and the lead single ("Keep This Fire Burning") was covered by the British soul singer
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. In May 2004, ''Robyn's Best'' was released in the US. It was a condensed version of her debut album, with no material from her later releases. In 2006, after her departure from BMG, ''Det Bästa Med Robyn'' (''The Best of Robyn'') was released in Sweden with material from her first three albums; notable omissions, however, were the singles "Don't Stop the Music" and "Keep This Fire Burning".


2004–2008: Konichiwa Records and ''Robyn''

The decade-long relationship between Robyn and her label ended in 2004. When Jive Records reacted negatively to " Who's That Girl?s new electropop sound, the singer decided to release music on her own. In early 2005, she announced that she was leaving Jive to start her own label.
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was created to liberate Robyn artistically. She said on her website that her new album would be released earlier than anticipated, with notable collaborators including
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from
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, Swedish duo The Knife and former Cheiron Studios producer
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. Robyn released the single " Be Mine!" in March 2005. Her fourth album, ''
Robyn Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 t ...
'', was her first number-one album in Sweden when it was released a month later. Influenced by electronica, rap, R&B and new-age music, ''Robyn'' was critically praised and earned the singer three 2006 Swedish Grammy Awards: "Årets Album" (Best Album), "Årets Kompositör" (Best Writer, with Klas Åhlund) and "Årets Pop Kvinnlig" (Best Pop Female). The album evoked global interest in Robyn, who was recognized for co-writing the song "Money for Nothing" for
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(his debut single). She released three more singles—"Who's That Girl?", " Handle Me" and " Crash and Burn Girl"—from the eponymous LP, which was popular in Sweden. Robyn appeared on the Basement Jaxx track "Hey U" from their 2006 album, '' Crazy Itch Radio'', and contributed " Dream On" and "C.C.C" to
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's ''People Say'' (his second album) that year. In December 2006, Robyn released ''
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'' in the UK as a preview of her more-recent material; this was followed by the March 2007 release of "
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". A revised edition of ''Robyn'' was released in the UK the following month, with two new tracks—" With Every Heartbeat" (a collaboration with
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) and " Cobrastyle" (a cover of a 2006 single by Swedish rockers Teddybears)—with slightly-altered versions of the original music. The second single from the UK release was "With Every Heartbeat", which was released in late July 2007 and reached number one on the UK singles chart. Robyn appeared on
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's
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showcase show, ''
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''. In Australia, where ''Robyn'' reached the top ten of the
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's album chart, "With Every Heartbeat" received attention on radio and video networks. Robyn contributed vocals to Fleshquartet's single, "This One's for You", from their ''Voices of Eden'' album that year. Konichiwa Records signed an international licensing deal with
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to distribute Robyn's music globally, and her UK recordings are released by Island Records. ''The Rakamonie EP'' was released in January 2008 by
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(a subsidiary of Interscope Records), and the US version of ''Robyn'' was released in April of that year. "With Every Heartbeat", "Handle Me" and "Cobrastyle" were top-10 club singles, and "With Every Heartbeat" received airplay on US pop and dance radio stations. Robyn provided backing vocals on Britney Spears' 2007 single, " Piece of Me", and appeared on the Fyre Department remix of "
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" by rapper Snoop Dogg. She made a brief US tour to promote ''Robyn'', and was the supporting act for Madonna (entertainer), Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour on European dates in 2008. In January 2009, Robyn received a 2008 Swedish Grammis Award for Best Live Act.


2010–2013: ''Body Talk''

She released the first album of the ''Body Talk'' trilogy, ''Body Talk Pt. 1'', on 14 June 2010 in the Nordic countries on EMI and on 15 June in the US on Interscope Records. It was preceded by the single "
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" on 1 June 2010. The song was Robyn's first number-one single in Sweden and her fourth top-10 single in the UK and the US, peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart and number three on Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'''s Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In July 2010, she sang a minimalist, electro cover version of Alicia Keys' "Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart" live on IHeartRadio. Robyn made the All Hearts, All Hearts Tour in July and August 2010 with American singer Kelis to promote the ''Body Talk'' albums, and a four-date UK tour at the end of October. On 6 September 2010, ''Body Talk Pt. 2'' was released in the UK. It was preceded by the lead single, a dance version of " Hang with Me" from ''Body Talk Pt. 1'', the day before. The album includes a duet with American rapper Snoop Dogg, "U Should Know Better". Robyn performed "Dancing On My Own" with deadmau5 at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on 12 September. In a BBC ''Newsbeat'' interview, she explained her decision to release three albums in one year: "It was just something I felt like I needed to do. I just never thought about selling records or not, making this decision. I just did it for myself. It's a way of, for me, to stay inspired and to be able to do the things I like to do". However, Robyn said that she would not do it again: "When you do 16 or 13 songs in one go, you kind of empty yourself, and it takes a while to fill back up and have new things to talk about, so I think it's good for everyone". Robyn announced the release of the single, " Indestructible", on 13 October 2010; an acoustic version appeared on ''Body Talk Pt. 2''. The song was released on 17 November in Scandinavia and 22 November in the UK. Co-written by Klas Åhlund, it was described as a "pulsating full power version [that] takes every ounce of that emotion and wraps it up in another exceptional disco-pop record worthy of any dance-floor or passion-laden sing-a-long." Robyn planned to collaborate with Swedish producer
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on the song, "Time Machine"; Martin produced Robyn's US singles, " Do You Know (What It Takes)" and " Show Me Love", both of which peaked in the top 10 on the Billboard 100, ''Billboard'' 100 in 1997. The ''Body Talk'' albums have sold 91,000 copies in the US. Robyn guest-starred on "War at the Roses", a 2010 episode of ''Gossip Girl'', where she performed an acoustic version of "Hang with Me"; "
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" was featured at the end of the episode. In November, she said she would return to the studio in January 2011 with enough material to release a new album later that year. Robyn opened for Coldplay on their 2012 tour in Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. In mid-2013, she appeared with Paul Rudd and Sean Combs on "Go Kindergarten" from the Lonely Island's ''The Wack Album''. Robyn posted two videos of the Snoop Dogg collaboration ("U Should Know Better" and "Behind The Scenes") and a game, Mixory, on 21 and 22 June 2013. That year she received the Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Great Prize for "artistic contributions and embrace of technology", worth 1.2 million Swedish Swedish krona, kronor (around £117,000 at the time), which she planned to donate to a cause of her choice.


2014–2016: ''Do It Again'' and EPs

Robyn sang on Neneh Cherry's "Out of the Black", from Cherry's album ''Blank Project'', in 2014. She also announced the Do It Again (Röyksopp and Robyn album)#Tour, Do It Again Tour with
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and a collaborative mini-album, '' Do It Again'', that year. The tour ended prematurely after the death of Robyn's longtime friend and collaborator,
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. An EP of their final collaboration, ''
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'', was released soon afterwards. Robyn appeared at the Popaganda Festival in Sweden the following year and performed songs written with Falk before she postponed subsequent performances because she was still grieving. She premiered a dance set of remixed versions of her songs at the May 2016 Boston Calling Music Festival, with plans for more dates during the year. Robyn released ''Trust Me'', a collaboration EP with Mr. Tophat, in November 2016. She appeared on "That Could Have Been Me", a track from Todd Rundgren's album ''White Knight (album), White Knight'', the following year.


2017–present: ''Honey''

In March 2017, a new Robyn song called "Honey" was used in the soundtrack of the final season of HBO TV series, ''Girls (TV series), Girls''. The creator of the show, Lena Dunham selected it from a collection of her in-progress tracks. Robyn finalized it specially for the series. In February 2018, Robyn answered a fan on Twitter, that she will release her new album "some time this year". During an interview with Kindness (musician), Kindness, she revealed she was almost done with her new album. Afterwards, at a party, she debuted the full version of her new song "Honey". On 23 July, a new song entitled "Missing U (Robyn song), Missing U" was enlisted as a single, and later taken down. Fans quickly began noticing the hints she was dropping, including a post on Twitter with the hashtag #MissingU. It was released on 1 August 2018. On 1 August 2018, Robyn presented "Missing U" on Annie Mac's
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show. There she talked about the long silence and the process of making the upcoming album to be released before 2018's end. Robyn also released a mini-documentary featuring the song and a tribute to her fans who were missing her and her new music for years. On 19 September 2018, Robyn announced her upcoming album is titled ''
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'' to be released on 26 October 2018. In November 2018, Robyn announced she would be touring across North America and Europe come 2019. The trek kicked off on 5 February 2019 and ended that April. On 27 September 2019, she performed in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm during the September 2019 climate strikes, international climate strikes. Before singing ''Ever Again'', she also told the audience she had met climate researcher Johan Rockström. In February 2020, she accepted the award for Songwriter of the Decade at the 2020 NME Awards. In March 2020, global critic aggregator Acclaimed Music ranked "
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" as the greatest song of the 2010s. After cancelled promotion, gigs, and festivals starting that year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Robyn launched a series of live-stream DJ sets from Stockholm, ''Robyn Presents Club DOMO'', and also participated in Record Store Day with a series of previously unreleased remixes of tracks from her record ''
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'' for limited-release vinyl then streaming by her favorite DJs, artists and collaborators, including Joe Goddard (musician), Joe Goddard, Avalon Emerson, Robert Hood, Louie Vega, Soulwax, Kim Ann Foxman, Young Marco, The Blessed Madonna, Patrick Topping and Planningtorock. The next two years Robyn collaborated on SG Lewis and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, TEED's electropop track "Impact" with Channel Tres for the former's album ''Times (SG Lewis album), Times'', Jónsi's avant-pop track "Salt Licorice" produced by A.G. Cook for the former's album ''Shiver (Jónsi album), Shiver'', and Joakim Åhlund and Björn Yttling's revived side project ''Smile'' psychedelic pop track "Call My Name" for their album ''Phantom Island''. In September 2021, ''Rolling Stone'', from a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, producers, critics, journalists and industry figures, ranked "
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" at number 20, between Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and John Lennon's "Imagine (John Lennon song), Imagine", on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, their reissued list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", the decade's highest entry on their list. Also that month Robyn signed a management contract with ''Young Artists'', the global division of ''Young'' (a music and arts organization founded in London) that still maintained Konichiwa Records, her record label and distribution agreements apart from Young (record label), their own.


Personal life

Robyn's parents led an independent theatre group, and growing up in that environment influenced her sense of style: "I was around people who dressed up for work every day, and so the concept of how you can use clothes to change your personality or communicate who you are is very interesting to me." Robyn has two younger siblings. Robyn began dating Olof Inger in 2002, and they were engaged until 2011. She later became engaged to videographer Max Vitali, referring to him in a 2013 interview with ''Collection of Style'' magazine as her fiancé: "We became friends when we made the video for 'Be Mine', and now we work together a lot. He made all the videos for the last album." She and Vitali separated for a period of time following the release of ''Body Talk'', but had reconciled by 2018.


Legacy

British pop star Charli XCX has expressed her admiration for Robyn's work, saying "Robyn has definitely been part of paving the way for pop stars who fall a little to the left of the Top 40 norm." Robyn's "triumph in rejection" has led to her status as an gay icon, LGBTQ icon. Her debut, ''Robyn Is Here'', was instrumental in helping launch
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's career in pop music, and creating demand for "white girl R&B singers, from Mandy Moore to Billie Piper." When Robyn turned down Jive Records' attempt to sign her in the United States, the label shifted their focus to a young artist named Britney Spears, with the head of Jive calling Spears "an American Robyn – a Europop teen queen, with an added dash of 'girl next door. Martin ended up producing much of Spears's debut album ''...Baby One More Time (album), ...Baby One More Time'', and she was seen as "easier to control than the 'forceful' Swedish teenager." ''Robyn'' (2005) has been cited as a foundational pop album of the 2000s, cementing the validity of "poptimism" in music critics circles that "[made] indie nerds lighten up." It gained significant acclaim from indie magazine ''Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork'', which had only covered a few pop albums prior. Their acclaim "placed synthpop on the same level as earnest, artsy acts such as Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens." She was seen as "a bellwether for rock getting less rigid in introducing non-guitar sounds and for pop music becoming more dance-driven and experimental." Robyn helped shape contemporary pop music by taking creative control, introducing indie music, indie elements to mainstream pop, and including feminist and other political themes in her music long before it became acceptable for popstars to do so, with ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' attributing her work as a savant and pioneer in the accelerated rise of the alternative-pop genre starting in the late 2000s. She has been recognized as an important influence by Carly Rae Jepsen, Lorde (singer), Lorde, Taylor Swift, and Christine and the Queens. ''NPR'' Jessica Hopper deemed Robyn "The 21st Century's Pop Oracle", while ''The New York Times'' Caryn Ganz called her "Pop's Glittery Rebel".


Discography

* '' Robyn Is Here'' (1995) * ''
My Truth ''My Truth'' is the second studio album by the Swedish singer Robyn. It was released on 17 May 1999 by Bertelsmann Music Group, BMG Sweden. Robyn collaborated with the producers Ghost (production team), Lindström & Ekhé, Christian Falk, Billy M ...
'' (1999) * '' Don't Stop the Music'' (2002) * ''
Robyn Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 t ...
'' (2005) * ''Body Talk Pt. 1'' (2010) * ''Body Talk Pt. 2'' (2010) * '' Body Talk'' (2010) * ''
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'' (2018)


Awards and nominations


See also

* Popular music in Sweden


References


External links

* * {{Authority control Robyn, 1979 births Living people Ariola Records artists English-language singers from Sweden Interscope Records artists Jive Records artists Musicians from Stockholm RCA Records artists Singers from Stockholm Sommar (radio program) hosts Swedish women record producers Swedish dance musicians Swedish electronic musicians Swedish expatriates in the United States Swedish women singer-songwriters Swedish pop singers Swedish women in electronic music Synth-pop singers 20th-century Swedish women singers 21st-century Swedish women singers Ministry of Sound artists Electropop musicians