Monica Dominique (née ''Danielsson'', born 20 July 1940 in Västerås) is a

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pianist,

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, and actress.The Swedish Film Database: Monica Dominique
accessed on April 13, 2010 As a student Monica Dominique attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in

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. She was educated at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and has been active as a versatile but mainly jazz musician since the 1960s. In the early 1970s, she played in the group Solar Plexus. She started her career as an actress in 1969, playing the character ''Lotten'' in the TV movie '' Spader, Madame''. She continued her acting career well into the late 1990s. She and her husband, pianist and composer Carl-Axel Dominique, composed the song " You're Summer" for the Swedish group

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to perform at the

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in Luxembourg in

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, which she also conducted herself. The Dominique couple often perform together, playing

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. Her brother is the jazz musician Palle Danielsson.

Discography

Albums

*1988: ''Inside the Rainbow'' *1996: ''En flygel – fyra händer'' with Carl-Axel Dominique *1997: ''So Nice'' with Carol Rogers *2000: ''Mitt i mej'' *2003: ''Bird Woman'' (as Monica Dominique Quintet) *2004: ''Säg vad ni vill... men först kommer käket'' with Monica Nielsen *2006: ''Jösses flickor – Återkomsten'' *2009: ''Monica & Monica tolkar Beppe, Olle, Allan'' with Monica Nielsen *2011: ''Fingers Unlimited'' with Carl-Axel Dominique *2012: ''Togetherness'' with Palle Danielsson

Filmography

*1979: '' Repmånad'' *1979: ''Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet'' *1980: '' Räkan från Maxim'' (TV) *1981: ''Höjdhoppar'n'' *1982: '' Gräsänklingar'' *1990: ''Macken – Roy's & Roger's Bilservice'' *1996: ''Monopol'' ;Soundtracks *1970: ''Förpassad'' *1970: ''Jänken'' *1983: ''Med Lill-Klas i kappsäcken'' (TV) *1983: ''Kärleken'' *1991: ''Sanna kvinnor'' (TV) *1996: ''Alla dagar, alla nätter'' (TV)

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Dominique Musik
Swedish film actresses Swedish jazz pianists Swedish women pianists Swedish pianists Swedish jazz composers Eurovision Song Contest conductors 1940 births Living people Swedish women composers Women jazz composers 20th-century Swedish musicians 20th-century Swedish actresses Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni 20th-century conductors (music) 21st-century pianists Women classical pianists 20th-century women pianists 21st-century women pianists {{Sweden-musician-stub