Idol 2021
Idol 2021 was the seventeenth season of the Swedish Idol series. The show was broadcast on TV4 and starts on 23 August 2021. Judge member Nikki Amini left the show after the sixteenth season. On 27 May 2021, it was announced that Katia Mosally would replace Nikki Amini as new judge for this season. Winner of this season was singer Birkir Blær. Competition Elimination chart References External linksIdol at TV4 {{Idol (Swedish TV series) 2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ... 2021 Swedish television seasons ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kishti Tomita
Kishti Tomita (born 19 November 1963) is a Swedish voice coach, TV personality and singer. Together with A&R manager Daniel Breitholtz and manager and talent scout Peter Swartling, she was a part of the Swedish ''Idol 2004'', '' Idol 2005'', '' Idol 2006'' and ''Idol 2007'' jury. On 26 February 2008, it was revealed that Tomita had quit the Idol jury and would not appear in Idol 2008; none of the other two jury members attended the next season. On 10 May, Tomita was a background singer for the Russian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the 56th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Düsseldorf, Germany, following the country's victory at the with the song "Satellite" by Lena. Organised by the European Broadcasting Uni ... after one of the other Swedish background singers became ill. In 2014, she discovered that she had Asperger syndrome. Tomita returned as a judge in Idol 2017. Kishti Tomita placed third ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Annika Wickihalder
Annika Viktoria Wickihalder Pettersson (born 25 January 2001) is a Swiss-Swedish singer. She participarted in '' Idol 2021'', placing third. She participated in Melodifestivalen 2024 with the song "Light"; having qualified from her heat for the run-off vote of 2 March 2024, she ultimately secured a spot in the final of 9 March 2024 where she placed eighth. Wickihalder participated in Melodifestivalen 2025 Melodifestivalen 2025 was the 65th edition of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen, organised by (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 1 February and 8 March 2025, hosted by Edvin Törnblom and Kristina "Keyyo" Petrus ... with the song " Life Again" and qualified directly to the final from heat three on 15 February 2025. She placed eighth again in the final on 8 March 2025. Discography Singles References External links * * 2001 births Living people Swedish women singers {{Sweden-singer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jacqline
Jacqline Lie Hope Clarine People Mossberg Mounkassa (born 2 July 1998), known mononymously as Jacqline (), is a Swedish singer. Career Mossberg Mounkassa was born into a musical family, her Congolese father Lajo being a music producer and songwriter. When she was 16 years old, she dropped out of high school to devote herself entirely to music. In the spring of 2021, she released her first single, "Do It Better". On the day of the launch, she had been poisoned, was hospitalized and risked permanent damage to her vocal cords. During the summer, she considered giving up her music career altogether. ''Idol 2021'' In the autumn 2021, Mossberg Mounkassa was one of the participants in the seventeenth season of the TV program ''Idol'' on TV4. She joined the program by applying to its new concept ''Idolraketen'' which aired apart from the regular ''Idol'' program on TV4 Play. There, along with four other applicants, she was assigned to the Stockholm region, and later she was also sele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nikki Amini
Negar Nikki Amini, (born 23 October 1984) is an Iranian-born Swedish marketer at Universal Music Groups office in London. Since 2016, she has served as a judge on the Swedish version of Idol broadcast on TV4 - 2016 alongside Fredrik Kempe and Quincy Jones III, and since 2017 alongside Kishti Tomita, Alexander Kronlund and Anders Bagge. She confirmed after 2020's final show that she will not appear in the next season of the show. Having begun her career as a marketer for the record label Warner Music, Amini has worked with musicians including Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Avicii and Justin Bieber. She participated in Let's Dance 2018 broadcast on TV4. Personal life Amini was born in Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ..., Iran in 1984, and moved to Sweden with he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Idol (Swedish TV Series)
''Idol'' is a Swedish reality-competition talent show broadcast on TV4. It was first aired in August 2004, and became one of the most popular shows on Swedish television. Part of the ''Idols'' franchise, it originated from the reality program ''Pop Idol'' created by British entertainment executive Simon Fuller, which was first aired in 2001 in the United Kingdom. The program seeks to discover the best singer in Sweden through a series of nationwide auditions. The outcomes of the later stages of the competition are determined by public phone voting. The format features three judges who give critiques of the contestants' performances. Since ''Idol'' started in 2004, the show has featured five different line-ups of judges, a total of nine different judges, as well as twelve different presenters (including sidekicks in 2011 and 2013). From 2004 to 2007, each season had two hosts who stayed for just one season. However, from 2008, each season only has one host. For the 2011 seaso ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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TV4 (Sweden)
TV4 (''TV fyra'') is a Sweden, Swedish free-to-air Television in Sweden, television network owned by TV4 AB, a subsidiary of the TV4 Media, TV4 Media AB. It started broadcasting by satellite in 1990 and, since 1992, on terrestrial television. In 1994, TV4 became the largest channel and remained so for a number of years. The two channels of Sveriges Television (SVT) lost more and more viewers for a couple of years. After making schedule changes in 2001, SVT1 had practically the same numbers of viewers as TV4. From 2004 to 2019, the TV4 Group was a fully active member of the European Broadcasting Union. History In the spring of 1984, Ingemar Leijonborg and Gunnar Bergvall worked out a business plan for a Swedish commercial TV channel. The plan included a financing calculation for such a channel. It turned out that the project was financially justifiable and they resigned from their jobs, Leijonborg from SVT and Bergvall from Bonnier. In autumn 1985 the investment company Provent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Avicii Arena
Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden. Despite the name changes, the local metro station is still named Globen metro station. The arena represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System. Construction Avicii Arena is the largest spherical building on Earth and took two and a half years to build. It has a diameter of and an inner height of . The volume of the building is and it has a seating capacity of 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts, and 13,850 for ice hockey. In the upper area there are 40 VIP boxes and a restaurant. The steel, concrete and glass construction designed by the architects Berg Arkitektkontor AB is supported by a MERO space structure. History Globen was inaugurated on 19 February 19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexander Kronlund
Alexander Erik Kronlund (born 10 December 1971 in Bredäng) is a Swedish producer and songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. .... Kronlund co-wrote Meja's million-selling debut album on Sony and co-wrote two songs for Britney Spears' second album, ''Oops!... I Did It Again (album), Oops!... I Did It Again''. Kronlund co-wrote her hit single, "Lucky (Britney Spears song), Lucky", with Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, Rami and also co-wrote "Don't Go Knockin' on My Door". He has also worked with Backstreet Boys, Lesley Roy and *NSYNC and, more recently, Robyn and Lambretta (band), Lambretta. Kronlund also co-wrote two songs with Cyndi Lauper for her 2008 album ''Bring Ya to the Brink''. Kronlund also co-wrote the third single from Britney Spears' sixth album, ''Circ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jacqline Mossberg Mounkassa
Jacqline Lie Hope Clarine People Mossberg Mounkassa (born 2 July 1998), known mononymously as Jacqline (), is a Swedish singer. Career Mossberg Mounkassa was born into a musical family, her Congolese father Lajo being a music producer and songwriter. When she was 16 years old, she dropped out of high school to devote herself entirely to music. In the spring of 2021, she released her first single, "Do It Better". On the day of the launch, she had been poisoned, was hospitalized and risked permanent damage to her vocal cords. During the summer, she considered giving up her music career altogether. ''Idol 2021'' In the autumn 2021, Mossberg Mounkassa was one of the participants in the seventeenth season of the TV program ''Idol'' on TV4. She joined the program by applying to its new concept ''Idolraketen'' which aired apart from the regular ''Idol'' program on TV4 Play. There, along with four other applicants, she was assigned to the Stockholm region, and later she was also sele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Birkir Blær
Birkir Blær Óðinsson (born 29 March 2000) is an Icelandic singer. On 10 December 2021, he won '' Swedish Idol 2021'' at the Avicii Arena Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockho ... having resided in Sweden since November 2020. Discography Singles References Living people 2000 births Idol (Swedish TV series) participants Idol (Swedish TV series) winners {{Sweden-bio-stub Icelandic expatriates in Sweden 21st-century Icelandic singers 21st-century Swedish singers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |