Alice Cecilia Linh Svensson (born 11 July 1991) is a Vietnamese-born Swedish singer. At the age of ten months, Svensson was adopted from her home country Vietnam, and moved to Sweden with her family, and she has since lived in

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. She finished as runner-up in '' Idol 2008'' and later took part in Melodifestivalen 2017 with the song "

Running with Lions "Running with Lions" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Alice Svensson. The song was released as a digital download in Sweden on 25 February 2017 and peaked at number 87 on the Swedish Singles Chart. It took part in Melodifestivalen 2017, and pl ...

Beginnings

Alice was a member of the pop group Popcorn, releasing a record with them at the age of 13. She has participated in a number of talent shows like ''Super Troupers'' in 2004, talent show ''Joker 2006'' where Svensson became first-runner up, in '' Talang'' show in 2007, and the TV4 children's show ''Lattjo lajban''. She won the talent show ''Popkorn 2007''.

''Idol 2008''

Svensson took part in '' Idol 2008'', the Swedish version of '' Pop Idol''.Artist Biography by Jason Birchmeier
Retrieved on 19 Feb 2018 She sang the following songs: *Audition - "Ain't No Other Man" *First qualifying week - "Beautiful Disaster" *Second qualifying week - "Fighter" *Third qualifying week - "Beautiful Disaster" *5-års theme - "These Words" *1990s theme - "Ironic" *ABBA theme - " Lay All Your Love on Me" *Various theme - "Min kärlek" *Rock theme - "Heaven's on Fire" *Soul theme - "I Say a Little Prayer *Duets - " You're the One That I Want" *Love theme - "Because of You" and "Crazy in Love" *Gospel theme - "Shackles" and "Independent Woman" *Jury selection - "Keep This Fire Burning" and "Girlfriend" *Final - "So What" (own choice), " Heaven's on Fire" (viewers' choice) and "

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" (final song). On 14 November 2008, Swedish media reported that her rendition of "Heaven's on Fire" had been posted on the hard rock band Kiss' official homepage by members of the group. She finished first runner-up to eventual winner Kevin Borg.

After ''Idol''

In May 2009, she signed a recording contract and released her debut solo single "Lady Luck". In 2009, she also collaborated with the Swedish singer Jonathan Fagerlund in the latter's second album ''Welcome to My World'' where she was featured in Fagerlund's song "Save Our Yesterdays". In 2017, she participated 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 ...

with the song "

". She placed fifth in the fourth heat and failed to advance further in the competition.

Discography

Singles

;With Popcorn *"Popcorn" ;Solo singles

Filmography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Svensson, Alice People from Hanoi Vietnamese emigrants to Sweden 1991 births Living people Idol (Swedish TV series) participants Swedish adoptees Swedish people of Vietnamese descent 21st-century Swedish singers 21st-century Swedish women singers Melodifestivalen contestants of 2017