Dominika Peczynski (born 20 September 1970) is a
Polish
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Swedish singer, model and television host.
Army of Lovers
She joined the Swedish pop music group
Army of Lovers
Army of Lovers is a Swedish dance-pop group which formed in 1987 and had a number of hits in Europe throughout the 1990s. Some of their biggest successes include the song "Crucified", which was a big hit in Europe, charting 31 weeks in the Eu ...
in 1992, making her debut with the group with "
Hasta Mañana", a cover of the
ABBA
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song. Peczynski already knew the other members of Army of Lovers;
Michaela Dornonville de la Cour and
Camilla Henemark
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Biography
Henemark was born in Stockholm, to a Nigerian father and a Swedish mother. She started ...
worked for the same
modelling agency
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as her, she had been at school with
Jean-Pierre Barda
Michel Jean-Pierre Barda (born 7 March 1965) is a Swedish and Israeli singer, actor, make up artist and hair dresser of French/Algerian Jewish descent. He is one of the founding members of the pop group Army of Lovers.
Biography
Jean-Pierre ...
and had previously had a relationship with
Alexander Bard
Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish musician, author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, religious and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist religious movement alongside ...
.
Post Army of Lovers
Since the Army of Lovers split, she has worked as a TV presenter for a number of different Swedish and overseas shows, including the Swedish version of ''
Temptation Island'' and her own programme, ''Dominika's Planet'', which aired in the UK. In 1998 she posed for the adult magazine ''
Playboy
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K ...
''.
Since 2002 she has been running a
public relations
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company.
In 2005 a new music project called
Nouveau Riche
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was launched, featuring Peczynski and Ulrich Bermsjö. Their debut single "Oh Lord" was released in November 2005. Following the release of their second single "Hardcore Life", Peczynski left the band. After several weeks, however, she was replaced by another female singer and her contributions to the band have been removed from all subsequent releases and official marketing tools.
She competed in the celebrity dance show
Let's Dance 2017
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which is broadcast on
TV4.
In 2018 Peczynski founded Treatya.com, a booking platform for beauty treatments at home.
Personal life
Peczynski grew up in a Jewish family. She has two children: daughter Hannah Sabina Edna Bahri (born 1 August 2000) with Claes Bahri, and son Harry Bartal (born 8 August 2011) with Yoav Bartal. Since 2015, Peczynski has been in a relationship with Sweden's former Minister of Finance
Anders Borg
Anders Erik Borg (born 11 January 1968) is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.
Youth and education
Borg was born in Skarpnäck, Sto ...
. They married on 3 November 2018. On 22 June 2022, Peczynski announced that she and Borg had filed for divorce without "time for reflection", meaning immediately.
Anders Borg and Dominika Peczynski has filed for divorce
(in Swedish) 2022-06-22
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Musicians from Warsaw
Polish emigrants to Sweden
20th-century Polish Jews
Swedish dance musicians
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish women singers
English-language singers from Sweden