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Karin Glenmark
Karin Margareta Glenmark (born 8 April 1952) is a Swedish pop and rock singer. Retrieved 29 May 2010 She is the niece to and sister to . Together with Anders, she is a part of the siblings duo , and together with uncle Bruno and his wife , they formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomelilla
Tomelilla () is a locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ... and the seat of Tomelilla Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 6,444 inhabitants in 2010. Climate Tomelilla has an oceanic climate with very mild winters by Nordic standards due to its southerly latitude near the sea. The Bollerup station closed in 2021. References {{Authority control Populated places in Tomelilla Municipality Populated places in Skåne County Municipal seats of Skåne County Swedish municipal seats 15th-century establishments in Skåne County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Pop Music
Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World War II, Swedish pop music was heavily influenced by American jazz, and then by rock-and-roll from the U.S. and the U.K. in the 1950s and 1960s, before developing into dansband music. Since the 1970s, Swedish pop music has come to international prominence with bands singing in English, ranking high on the British, New Zealand, American, and Australian charts and making Sweden one of the world's top exporter of popular music by gross domestic product. History Post-war With the influx of American G.I.s into Europe in the 1940s, styles of American music seeded themselves into Swedish culture. Many Swedish ''dansorkestrar'' ("dance orchestras") played jitterbug, foxtrot, and swing music and other jazz-derived tunes for people to dance to. In the 1950s early rock and roll, as well as country music and German schlager also infused th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemini (Swedish Band)
Gemini are a Swedish brother and sister duo, consisting of Karin Glenmark and Anders Glenmark. The duo released two original albums: ''Gemini'' (1985) and ''Geminism'' (1987). Both albums reached the Swedish Top 20, while their success was limited to Scandinavia. Their only truly international release was the single " Just Like That" (the chorus of which was recorded and is, as yet, officially unreleased by ABBA). Prior to their work as Gemini, Karin and Anders formed half of the group Glenmarks (with their uncle Bruno Glenmark and aunt Ann-Louise Hanson) and also released two singles together, with 1984's "Kall som is" ("Cold As Ice") being placed 4th at Melodifestivalen (the Swedish heats for the Eurovision Song Contest). The winner of Melodifestivalen, Herreys, went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest (with "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley") and recorded a version of "Kall som is" for their album. Gemini's eponymous first album received an international release but was not a sales succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Glenmark
Alf Göran Bruno Glenmark (born 17 March 1938 in Tomelilla, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, songwriter, band leader and singer. Music career During the 1960s, Glenmark toured Sweden with his own band and soloist Eleanor Bodel. With his wife Ann-Louise Hanson, niece Karin Glenmark and nephew Anders Glenmark, in the 1970s he formed the family group Glenmarks. Their first big success was ''Gammaldags musik'', for which Bruno Glenmark also wrote the lyrics. With Hanson, Glenmark had his own record label, GlenDisc, from 1972 to 1990. Melodifestivalen Bruno Glenmark has taken part in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selection competition ''Melodifestivalen'' on several occasions, as a songwriter, conductor and singer. *1969 – conductor for ''Svenska flicka'' by Ann-Louise Hanson (finished 4th). *1973 – ''En liten sång (som alla andra)'' by Glenmarks (finished 4th). *1974 – ''I annorlunda land'' by Glenmark (finished 8th). *1975 – conductor for ''Lady Antoinette'' by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Glenmark
Gert Anders Glenmark (born 20 November 1953) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is the brother of singer Karin Glenmark and nephew of band leader Bruno Glenmark. Career Among the artists for whom Glenmark has written and produced are Eva Dahlgren, Orup, Ted Gärdestad, and Patrik Isaksson. He has also, early on in his career, been a backing singer on solo albums by members of ABBA, such as Anni-Frid Lyngstad's ''Frida Ensam'' and Agnetha Fältskog's ''Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus'', both released in 1975. In 1976, Glenmark played lead guitar in Abba's hit single "Money, Money, Money". In 1984, Glenmark sang in the chorus of Murray Head's hit single " One Night in Bangkok" (US No. 3, UK #12), from the Benny Andersson/Tim Rice/Björn Ulvaeus musical ''Chess''. In 1996, Glenmark produced and co-wrote Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad's Swedish solo album ''Djupa Andetag''. He has also collaborated with a number of Danish artists such as Lis Sørensen and Sø ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Louise Hanson
Ann-Louise Hanson (born in Kristianstad in 1944) is a Swedish singer who has been involved in the music industry since 1956. In 1960, she had her first hit, "Är du ensam i kväll?", a Swedish version of Elvis Presley's ''Are you lonesome tonight?'' Many of her solo recordings from the 1960s feature Bruno Glenmarks Orkester and, following their marriage, Ann-Louise and Bruno Glenmark formed the group Glenmarks with Bruno's niece Karin and nephew Anders. Soon after, their own GlenDisc record label began producing vinyl, cassettes and eventually CDs under the banner of 'Hanson-Glenmark Production AB'. Ann-Louise holds the dubious honour of having entered the Swedish Melodifestivalen competition thirteen times without winning once, which is a record in itself. Of those entries, the songs "Bara en enda gång" (a duet with John Ballard) and "Kärleken lever" are amongst her best remembered. Ann-Louise performed one of the entries in the German preselection for the Eurovision Song C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959. In the early 2000s, the competition was the most popular television program in Sweden;Television in Sweden Sweden.se (30 September 2005). Retrieved on 20 October 2006. it is also broadcast on radio and the Internet. In 2012, the heats averaged 3.3 million viewers, and over an estimated four million people in Sweden watched the final, almost half of the Swedish population. The festival has produced six [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABBA
ABBA ( , , formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome. One of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, they became one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982, and in 2022. In Eurovision Song Contest 1974, 1974, ABBA were Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo (ABBA song), Waterloo," which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, 50th anniversary celebration of the contest. During the band's main active years, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Saxell
Michael Saxell (born 1 October 1956) is a singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden but has spent many years on the Canadian west coast. He composed music for the Colin Nutley movie '' Änglagård – andra sommaren'' and for the soundtrack of ''Blådårar''. Career Saxell co-wrote the Swedish No. 1 hit song If I Were Sorry, the Swedish Song of the Year Grammy Winner 2017 and winner of Melodifestivalen 2016 In March 2021 it had received more than 94 million Spotify plays and is certified 7 x platinum status in Sweden, 2 x platinum in Poland, gold status in Germany and Austria. The song placed fifth in the Eurovision Song Contest finals in 2016. He is co-writer of the Swedish No. 1 hit song Johnny G (The Guidetti Song), performed by artist Badpojken, aka the artists' collective Michael Saxell, Fredrik Andersson and Ingvar Irhagen. The song was released mid July 2015 and achieved Swedish quadruple-platinum status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Werup
Jacques Werup (14 January 1945 – 12 November 2016) was a Swedish musician, author, poet, stage artist and screenwriter, born in Malmö. Werup's poetry is often associated to jazz. He was a childhood friend of Mikael Wiehe and Göran Skytte and had his first novel published in 1971. He has co-written many songs with long-time collaborator and composer Michael Saxell for various projects including Gör mig lite levande which is a CD and nationwide stage show with Swedish singer Lill Lindfors and En känsla av ljus, which is a concert Werup and Saxell wrote and performed with Mats Ronander and Benneth Fagerlund. Werup lived in Ystad. In 1997 Werup got the Ferlinpriset together with Ola Magnell, and was 2003 awarded a scholarship by the Swedish Royal Academy. Was also awarded Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris in 1980. Bibliography *Returbiljett Polen (1971) *Ett å... Två å... Tre å... Fyr! (1971) *Streber (1972) *Tiden i Malmö, på jorden (1974) *Swiss Made (1975) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
