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Velvet (singer)
Jenny Marielle Pettersson (born 5 November 1975, Helsingborg, Sweden), professionally known as Velvet, is a Swedish dance-pop singer. She has released two albums since her 2005 debut in the music industry and her first eight singles have all achieved a top-twenty peak on the Swedish Singles Chart. Early life Velvet moved from Helsingborg to Stockholm in 1993 to study ballet at Balettakademien. She soon took singing lessons at a dance school where she "got a voice". She worked at Wallmans cabaret where she discovered that singing was what she really wanted to do. She then toured for eight years as a choir singer and dancer to major artists such as Lena PH, Markoolio, Carola, Sanne Salomonsen, Orup, Meat Loaf, Martin Stenmarck and Jessica Folcker. Velvet was also a part of the house choir for the Swedish Eurovision organisation for five years and traveled to the various Eurovision Song Contests across Europe. Music Velvet was discovered in 2005 and signed with Bonnier Amigo Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsingborg
Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the central urban area of northwestern Scania and Sweden's closest point to Denmark: the Danish city Helsingør is clearly visible about to the west on the other side of the Øresund. The HH Ferry route across the sound has more than 70 car ferry departures from each harbour every day. Historic Helsingborg, with its many old buildings, is a scenic coastal city. The buildings are a blend of old-style stone-built churches and a 600-year-old medieval fortress (Kärnan) in the city centre, and more modern commercial buildings. The streets vary from wide avenues to small alley-ways. ''Kullagatan'', the main pedestrian shopping street in the city, was the first pedestrian shopping street in Sweden. History Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities of wh ... [...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] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Therese Grankvist
Therese Grankvist (born 2 May 1977) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She started recording in 1997 under the Drömhus alias, and goes by Therese since the release of her single "Monkey" in 2002. She may be best known for her internationally successful collaborations with Swedish DJ and producer StoneBridge, " Put 'Em High" and " Take Me Away", released on Hed Kandi in 2004. Therese started her own label Vixon Records in 2014. Early life Therese Grankvist spent her childhood in Nässjö, Sweden. She later moved to Tullinge (near Stockholm) at the age of 13. Career 1997–2000: Drömhus and Melodifestivalen Therese's career started when she called a record company and recorded her singing on their answering machine. When she later met Dr. Alban, he convinced her to join the new eurodance project Drömhus. At first, Drömhus was meant to consist of two men and Therese, but eventually shrank to just Therese and the producers. In 1997, Drömhus's first single "Du o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereo Love
"Stereo Love" is a song recorded by Romanian DJ Edward Maya with Moldovan-Romanian musician Vika Jigulina, released as their debut single in 2009 from Maya's album, ''The Stereo Love Show''. The refrain is from " Bayatılar", composed by Azerbaijani musician Eldar Mansurov. It became a worldwide hit in nightclubs and rose to the top of eleven national music charts and was certified eight-times Platinum in Norway, seven-times Platinum in Sweden, and Gold or higher in ten additional countries. The song and the music video were both included on the compilation ''NRJ Music Awards 2010''. The music video was filmed in Mykonos, Greece, as Maya stated in an interview that Greece "was a place that I fell in love with". The song won the Top Dance Song Award at the 2011 ''Billboard'' Music Awards. Composition "Stereo Love" is set in common time with a moderate tempo of 127 beats per minute. It is set in the key of C minor with a simple chord progression of Cm–A–E–Gm. The song is m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Maya
Eduard Marian Ilie (; born 29 June 1986), better known by his stage name Edward Maya, is a Romanian DJ, musician, composer, record producer, performer, singer and songwriter, most famous for his 2009 smash hit single "Stereo Love". Career In and around 2006, Maya worked with many other Romanian artists such as Akcent and Vika Jigulina. He also worked on the song Tornerò, which was performed by Mihai Trăistariu in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. He added in an interview on Beat-Town.com that this song "was the beginning of my career" In the summer of 2009, Maya launched his first song as an artist, "Stereo Love", reaching No. 2 in the Romanian singles charts. Later that year, "Stereo Love" became an international hit in clubs. While this success was followed by concerts worldwide, the song entered the top-5 singles charts in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. "Stereo Love" has received o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen (Velvet Album)
''The Queen'' is the second studio album by Swedish singer Velvet. Her official website and her label Bonnier confirmed that ''The Queen'' would be released on March 18, 2009. The album features fourteen tracks including the singles "Fix Me", "Chemistry", "Déjà Vu", "Take My Body Close" and "The Queen". Also included is a cover of Ultravox's 1984 single "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes". Track listing #"The Queen" (Tony Nilsson, Henrik Janson) – 2:56 #"Chemistry" (Niklas Pettersson, Tony Marty) – 2:59 #"Take My Body Close" (Mathias Kallenberger, Andreas Berlin) – 3:33 #"Sound of Music" (Anton Malmberg Hard, F. Persson, S. Engblom) – 3:17 #"Radio Star" (Tony Nilsson) – 3:03 #"My Rhythm" (Pettersson, M. Albertsson) – 3:35 #"Play" (Pettersson, Albertsson) – 4:10 #"Come into the Night" (Kallenberger, Berlin) – 3:27 #"Déjà Vu" (J. Persson, N. Molinder, P. Ankarberg, N. Valsamidis, David Jassy, F. Larsson) – 3:05 #"Dancing with Tear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Nilsson
Tony Nilsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter (born in Boden, Norrbotten County, Sweden in 1977). He is signed to Peermusic. A prolific composer of songs, he has contributed to a string of hits by well-known Swedish artists. Many of his songs have featured in Melodifestivalen and in the Swedish Singles Chart. Nilsson lives with artist and fellow songwriter Mirja Breitholtz. (in Swedish) Nilsson had a hit with "Natalie", a song he had written. It was featured in 2006 in the compilation album ''Absolute Summerhits 2006''. In 2007, a cover version by |
The Queen (Velvet Song)
"The Queen" is a 2009 pop song performed by the Swedish singer Velvet written by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson. It competed in the third Semi-Final of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen 2009 on February 21, 2009 at the Ejendals Arena, but failed to advance to the Final. Track listing #"The Queen" adio Edit Adio may refer to: Business *Adio (company), the former skateboard footwear and apparel company Music Songs * "Adio" (song), a song by Montenegrin recording artist Knez that represented Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 *"Adio", a 19 ...– 2:59 #"The Queen" emix– 3:38 Charts The song debuted on the Swedish Singles Chart on the week of March 6, 2009 at number 13, and fell to number 20 the following week before moving up to number 15 in its third week. For weeks four, five and six, the song charted at numbers 32, 42, and 28 respectively. "The Queen" is Velvet's eighth consecutive Top 20 hit in Sweden, and charted for six weeks. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finally (Velvet Album)
''Finally'' is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Velvet first released on March 20, 2006 on Bonnier Amigo. ''Finally'' peaked at #46 in the Swedish charts and dropped off the chart after just one week. Singles * Velvet's debut single ''"Rock Down To (Electric Avenue)"'' peaked at #6 in the Swedish charts and achieved the #1 spot on Sweden's dance chart. The song stayed in the charts for 11 weeks. * ''"Don't Stop Movin'"'' peaked at #8 in Sweden and due to the popularity of the two singles Velvet conducted her first tour. * ''"Mi Amore"'' was Velvet's third single and was also her first entry in Melodifestivalen (2006). The song failed to win but it charted in Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland & Russia. The song was also later announced as 'Song of the Year 2006' in Bulgaria. The song peaked at #5 in Sweden. * ''"Fix Me"'' peaked at #7 in Sweden but became known internationally - the song found itself in rotation in UK clubs. Due to its popularity her album ''Finally'' was re-re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
