Anna ''Marina'' Schiptjenko (born July 27, 1965, in

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) is the only female member of the Swedish electronic pop group

Bodies Without Organs BWO was a Swedish electropop group, formed in 2003. Prior to early 2006 they used the name Bodies Without Organs. In Sweden they have enjoyed considerable commercial success throughout their career, so far notching up 15 Top 40 singles, inclu ...

(now known as BWO). Her mother is Swedish and her father was a Ukrainian defector from the

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, thus her Ukrainian surname. She started her music career in the eighties, joining the

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band

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. The group stopped producing material in the nineties. She was asked by

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to join

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. But since this band had little success, she quit the band, shortly after Alexander left. In 2004, she joined Alexander's new project, BWO. The band is a success in

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and through

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. In 2010, Marina, and fellow Page bandmate Eddie Bengtsson produced and released a new album entitled "Nu" after an entire decade of the band being in hiatus. It reached number 34 in the Swedish album charts. Besides her musical career Marina has an art gallery in

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with Ciléne Andréhn since 1991. She also lives in Stockholm with her husband. She starred in the 2017 film ''The Square''.

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Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schiptjenko, Marina Swedish pop singers 1965 births Living people Swedish women pop singers Swedish keyboardists Swedish women keyboardists Swedish people of Ukrainian descent Singers from Malmö Swedish women in electronic music