Daniel Karlsson (born 31 August 1981 in Norrahammar,

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, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He later on took the name The Moniker as his stage name.

As Daniel Karlsson

Karlsson participated in

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. He finished in fourth place behind winner

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, runner-up Amanda Jenssen and third-placed Andreas Sjöberg. His interpretation of

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's "

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" was included in the album ''Det bästa från Idol 2007'' (The Best from Idol 2007). In October 2008, Karlsson released his first single, called "Would You Believe". A music video was also released to accompany the song.

As The Moniker

In March 2011, under the name The Moniker, he took part in the

Melodifestivalen 2011 Melodifestivalen 2011 was a Sweden, Swedish song contest held in February and March 2011. It selected Sweden's 51st song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and was the 50th edition of Melodifestivalen. Eric Saade, with the song ...

with his a song he had composed entitled "Oh My God!" and coming third behind winner Eric Saade with " Popular" and runner-up

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with " In the Club". He again took part in

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with the song "I Wanna Be Chris Isaak (This Is Just the Beginning)." After the first round of voting it was revealed that he came last, failing to advance further in the competition.

In popular culture

Daniel Karlsson took part, alongside Karl Martindahl and

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in the charity single " Wake Up World", the official release for "Hjälp Haiti".

Discography

Albums

;as The Moniker

Singles

;As Daniel Karlsson ;As The Moniker

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moniker, The Idol (Swedish TV series) participants Swedish songwriters Living people 1981 births People from Jönköping Musicians from Jönköping County 21st-century Swedish singer-songwriters 21st-century Swedish male singers