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Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s ...

band, fronted by Patrik Henzel and Martin Thors and named after the

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. They debuted in 1983 with a song for a Swedish film. In 1985, they had a Swedish top ten hit with "Paula". In the 1980s, the band had little success outside of Sweden. A planned U.S. album was recorded, but then shelved by

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. They continued to have numerous hit singles in their home country of Sweden. They were basically defunct for most of the 1990s, but had a resurgence with the album ''Remembering the Future'' in 1999. NASA Allmusic bio/ref> Henzel died in 2020 at the age of 54.

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Discography on ''discogs.com''NASA artist page at Ninthwave Records
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