Charlotte Jean "Lotta" Hedlund (born Charlotte Jean Butler; March 10, 1944, later Charlotte Walker) is an American-Swedish singer who has been living in

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since the late 1960s.

Life and career

She started her career in the girl-group Sherrys. The Sherrys toured Sweden with Swedish rock singer Jerry Williams, and after one of the gigs they met up with Hep Stars, Sweden's most successful group of the 1960s. One of the members was

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(later of ABBA fame), another was Sven "Svenne" Hedlund – and they later wed. She joined her husband by becoming a member of Hep Stars and later as a singer duo Svenne & Lotta in the 1970s, called " Sven & Charlotte" in certain countries. Svenne & Lotta competed in the Swedish heats for

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, in 1975, with a song penned by the men of ABBA, called " Bang en boomerang", and also recorded the song in English and had a hit in several European countries with " Bang a boomerang". ABBA later covered the song as an album track. Svenne & Lotta went on to become one of the best selling groups of all times in

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, and even recorded a single in Danish. Hedlund and her husband toured Sweden as a duo as well as solo artists until their divorce in 2014,"Lotta Hedlund: 'Måste ta hand om mitt liv'"
May 22, 2014. and were considered a cult act.

Discography – commercially available solo records

* "Bad Girl" (CD-single, 2007. Recorded in Philadelphia and Stockholm). See also discographies of Sherrys, Hep Stars, Svenne & Lotta, Sven & Charlotte.

Personal life

Hedlund was married to Swedish singer Svenne Hedlund (Sven Hedlund) from 1969 until they divorced in 2014 after 45 years of marriage. She and her family live in

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in southern Sweden.

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* * 1944 births Living people Swedish women singers American expatriates in Sweden 20th-century African-American women singers 20th-century American women singers 20th-century American singers Swedish people of African-American descent American women singers American emigrants to Sweden 21st-century African-American musicians 21st-century African-American women {{Sweden-singer-stub