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List Of Songs About Stockholm
This article lists songs about Stockholm, set there, or named after a location or feature of the city. It is not intended to include songs where Stockholm is simply "name-checked" along with various other cities. List *"19Hundra80Sju" by Imperiet *"Ah Stockholm" by Marty Willson-Piper *"Attention, Stockholm!" by Virna Lindt *"Bajen" by Kenta Gustafsson *" Balladen om det stora slagsmålet på Tegelbacken" by Olle Adolphson *"Balladen om eken" by Fred Åkerström *"Balladen om en gammal knarkare" by Thåström *"Columbus" by Kent *"Där har du grabben som har greppet direkt" by Sigge Fürst *"De e knas" by The Latin Kings *"Du & Jag & Stockholm" by Plura Jonsson *"Ekenskisen" by Lasse Dahlquist *"En vacker död stad" by Thåström *"Estocolmo" by Dj Méndez *"Ett enkelt rum på Sabbatsberg" by John Holm *"Fotbollsjazzen" by Elof Ahrle *"Från Djursholm till Danvikstull" by Orup *"Från Söder har Stockholm fått färgen" by Carl Anton *"Fredrik Snortare & Ceci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petter Askergren
Petter Alexis Askergren, (born 25 May 1974), who simply uses his given name Petter as a stage name, is a rap artist from Stockholm, Sweden, rapping in Swedish. He debuted in 1998 with the album ''Mitt sjätte sinne'' (My Sixth Sense), which became a success and started the Swedish hip hop boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He owns a record company called Bananrepubliken ( en, The Banana Republic). He also studied art history at Uppsala University for some time. He has also worked with the famous Norwegian rap producer Tommy Tee several times in his career. Petter also frequently works with Swedish disk jockey Patrik Elofsson who goes by the stage name DJ Sleepy. In 2014 he hosted Musikhjälpen in Uppsala. Personal life Petter was diagnosed with ADHD in 2011. Discography Studio albums Compilation albums Remix albums * 2007: ''Skruvat och choppat av Afasi'' EPs * 2019: ''Så mycket bättre – Tolkningarna'' Singles Featured singles Other charted song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorentz & Sakarias
Lorentz & Sakarias is a hip-hop duo from Stockholm, Sweden consisting of Lorentz Berger and Sakarias Berger. In their career, they have released two full-length albums. They have collaborated with Jan Johnston, Duvchi, and Newkid Jhun Alexander Ferrer, also known by his stage name Newkid (born 2 December 1990), is a Swedish–Filipino rapper signed to Sony Music Entertainment. Career Jhun Alexander Ferrer was born in Uddevalla, Sweden in 1990 to a Swedish mother and a ... Their single "Mayhem", released in 2009, peaked at number 31 on the Swedish single chart. Discography *2009: ''Vi mot världen'' *2012: ''Himlen är som mörkast när stjärnorna lyser starkast'' References Swedish hip hop groups Musical groups from Stockholm Singers from Stockholm Swedish-language singers {{Sweden-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Babs
Hildur Alice Nilsson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer and actress. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such. Career After making her breakthrough in the film '' Swing it, magistern!'' ('Swing It, Teacher!', 1940), she appeared in more than a dozen Swedish-language films. Despite being cast as the well-behaved, good-hearted, cheerful girl, the youth culture forming with Babs as its icon caused outrage among members of the older generation. A vicar called the Babs cult the "foot and mouth disease of cultural life". A long and productive period of collaboration with Duke Ellington began in 1963. Among other works, Babs partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weeping Willows
Weeping Willows is a Swedish indie rock group that started in 1995. History The band's first two albums are primarily influenced by the popular music of the late 1950s to early 1960s. With their third album ''Into the Light'', Weeping Willows took a stylistic turn towards a more modern sound with alternative rock leanings. Singer Magnus Carlson has also made albums as a solo artist and sang with fellow Swedish band West End Girls on a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' single " What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in 2008. The lyrics typically deal with unhappy love, loneliness and heart-ache. In the end of August 2006 Weeping Willows were the 99th most successful band in Sweden since 1985 (just after Elton John) at the list ''Tracks'' (statistics maintained by the Swedish Radio). In 2005 they were the at place 80 on the most played bands in the Swedish radio (with a top position of 5 in 2002). Most played songs are "Touch Me" (7th most played song in 2002 in Swedish Radio) and "S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Winnerbäck
Lars Mattias Winnerbäck (born 19 October 1975 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He was born in Stockholm but spent his childhood in Vidingsjö, Linköping, where he attended Katedralskolan. He moved back to Stockholm in 1996, the same year he released his first album, '' Dans med svåra steg''. He is now one of Sweden's most popular artists. The influence of songwriters like Carl Michael Bellman, Evert Taube, Bob Dylan, Ulf Lundell and Cornelis Vreeswijk shines through in Winnerbäck's exclusively Swedish lyrics, which deal with shallowness, prejudice in society, as well as romance, relationships and anxiety. Several songs depict the difference between living in small town Linköping and the capital Stockholm. His vinyl records were re-released in October 2011, many of them charting again on the Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Albums Chart. Winnerbäck has been the subject of two full-length documentary films, ''Solen i ögonen – En film om La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Borgedahl
Ragnar ( non, Ragnarr ) is a masculine Germanic given name, composed of the Old Norse elements ''ragin-'' "counsel" and ''hari-'' "army". Origin and variations The Proto-Germanic forms of the compounds are "ragina" (counsel) and "harjaz" or "hariz" (army). The Old High German form is ''Raginheri, Reginheri'', which gave rise to the modern German form Rainer, the French variant Rainier, the Italian variant Ranieri and the Latvian variant Renārs. The Old English form is "Rægenhere" (attested for example in the name of the son of king Rædwald of East-Anglia). The name also existed among the Franks as "Ragnahar" (recorded as Ragnachar in the book "History of the Franks" by Gregory of Tours). History of usage The name is on record since the 9th century, both in Scandinavia and in the Frankish empire; the form ''Raginari'' is recorded in a Vandalic (5th or 6th century) graffito in Carthage. The name was variously latinized as ''Raganarius'', ''Reginarius'', ''Ragenarius'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
