Hanna Emilia Rydberg-Mitiku, known simply as Emilia (born 5 January 1978), is a Swedish pop music and soul singer. Her 1998 hit single " Big Big World" reached number one in the

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in several countries.

Life and career

Rydberg's father is the Ethiopian popular singer Teshome Mitiku. Her mother is Swedish, Malena Rydberg. As a student she attended the

Adolf Fredrik's Music School Adolf Fredrik's Music School ( sv, Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser) is a general municipal junior high school ( sv, grundskola) in Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on choral music, and highly competitive admission based on audition in singing and mu ...

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. Rydberg was discovered in 1996 by Lars Anderson, son of ABBA's manager, Stig Anderson. She used the mononym of Emilia in the first years of her career, but more recently she has started to perform under the name of Emilia Mitiku, using her father's surname. In 2009, she competed in

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") 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 ...

, the Swedish national selection for

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, with the song "

You're My World "You're My World" is a ballad originally recorded in 1963 as "Il mio mondo" ("My World") by Umberto Bindi, who co-wrote the Italian version with Gino Paoli. Subsequently, an English version was commissioned, and the lyrics were written by Carl S ...

". She advanced directly from her heat; however, she placed ninth in the final. She released her album ''My World'' in 2009. Her single "Teardrops" was released to radio stations on 2 June 2009. Her duet with , "Side By Side" (Szerelemre hangolva), was recorded in both Hungarian and English languages and issued the same year. Emilia recorded a cover version of

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's " We Found Love" for a studio session in Stockholm which was published on YouTube. On 25 June 2012 she released the single "Lost Inside".

Discography

Albums

Singles

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Bryan Rice Brian Risberg Clausen, better known as Bryan Rice (born 29 May 1978 in Dåstrup, near Viby, Roskilde, Denmark), is a Danish pop singer and songwriter. He is best known for his debut single "No Promises" and for competing in the Dansk Melodi Gran ...

featuring Emilia) (BEL (Vl): #91)Ultratop: "Watch the Stars" song page
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References

External links

Emilia Mitiku
- Official YouTube channel
Profile at rateyourmusic.com
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Emilia Mitiku – Booking and events
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rydberg, Emilia 1978 births Living people Swedish pop singers Swedish people of Ethiopian descent Melodifestivalen contestants Singers from Stockholm Swedish soul singers 21st-century Swedish singers 21st-century Swedish women singers English-language singers from Sweden