Charlotte Jean "Lotta" Hedlund (born Charlotte Jean Butler; March 10, 1944, later Charlotte Walker) is an American-Swedish singer who has been living in Sweden since the late 1960s.
Life and career
She started her career in the girl-group
Sherrys. The Sherrys toured Sweden with Swedish rock singer
Jerry Williams, and after one of the gigs they met up with
Hep Stars
The Hep Stars are a Swedish rock band formed in Stockholm in 1963. During 1965–1966 the band was the most successful of contemporary 1960s Swedish pop groups performing in the English language. Outside the Nordic countries the band is best ...
, Sweden's most successful group of the 1960s. One of the members was
Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson (; born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, singer, composer and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals ''Chess'', ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', and '' Mamma M ...
(later of ABBA fame), another was
Sven "Svenne" Hedlund – and they later wed. She joined her husband by becoming a member of
Hep Stars
The Hep Stars are a Swedish rock band formed in Stockholm in 1963. During 1965–1966 the band was the most successful of contemporary 1960s Swedish pop groups performing in the English language. Outside the Nordic countries the band is best ...
and later as a singer duo
Svenne & Lotta in the 1970s, called "
Sven & Charlotte" in certain countries.
Svenne & Lotta competed in the Swedish heats for
Eurovision Song Contest,
Melodifestivalen, in 1975, with a song penned by the men of ABBA, called "
Bang en boomerang", and also recorded the song in English and had a hit in several European countries with "
Bang a boomerang". ABBA later covered the song as an album track. Svenne & Lotta went on to become one of the best selling groups of all times in
Denmark
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, and even recorded a single in
Danish
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.
Hedlund and her husband toured Sweden as a duo as well as solo artists until their divorce in 2014,
["Lotta Hedlund: 'Måste ta hand om mitt liv'"]
May 22, 2014. and were considered a cult act.
Discography – commercially available solo records
* "Bad Girl" (CD-single, 2007. Recorded in Philadelphia and Stockholm).
See also discographies of
Sherrys,
Hep Stars
The Hep Stars are a Swedish rock band formed in Stockholm in 1963. During 1965–1966 the band was the most successful of contemporary 1960s Swedish pop groups performing in the English language. Outside the Nordic countries the band is best ...
,
Svenne & Lotta,
Sven & Charlotte.
Personal life
Hedlund was married to Swedish singer
Svenne Hedlund (Sven Hedlund) from 1969 until they divorced in 2014 after 45 years of marriage.
She and her family live in
Sävsjö
Sävsjö is a locality and the seat of Sävsjö Municipality, Jönköping County
Jönköping County ( sv, Jönköpings län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötlan ...
in
Småland in southern Sweden.
References
External links
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1944 births
Living people
Swedish women singers
Swedish people of American descent
American expatriates in Sweden
20th-century African-American women singers
Swedish people of African-American descent
American women singers
American emigrants to Sweden
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
Melodifestivalen contestants of 2000
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