Dominika Peczynski (born 20 September 1970) is a
Polish-Swedish singer, model and television host.
Army of Lovers
She joined the Swedish pop music group
Army of Lovers 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
Camilla Maria Henemark (born 23 October 1964), also known as La Camilla, is a Swedish singer, actress, political spokesperson, and former fashion model.
Biography
Henemark was born in Stockholm, to a Nigerian father and a Swedish mother. She s ...
worked for the same
Modeling agency
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The top agen ...
as she; she had been at school with
Jean-Pierre Barda and had previously had a relationship with
Alexander Bard
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.
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 program, ''Dominika's Planet'', which aired in the UK. In 1998, she posed for the adult magazine ''
Playboy
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''.
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'', 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. 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) 22 June 2022
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
Swedish people of Russian-Jewish descent
Polish people of Russian-Jewish descent