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Olle Ljungström Lars Olof "Olle" Gustaf Ljungström (12 August 1961 – 4 May 2016) was a Swedish singer, songwriter, and musician. Ljungström grew up in Vaxholm. He was vocalist and guitarist in the group Reeperbahn from 1979 to 1984; since the early 1990s he ...

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, Björn Olsson and

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Biography

Anna Järvinen moved as a six-year-old with her mother to Stockholm. She sang in the Swedish popgroup Granada from the mid-1990s up until their split in 2003. After having been refused by several record companies she at last released her debut album ''Jag fick feeling'' in November 2007 with the record company Häpna. The album was nominated for four

grammis The Grammis are music awards presented annually to musicians and songwriters in Sweden. The oldest Swedish music awards, they were instituted as a local equivalent of the Grammy Awards given in the United States. The awards ceremony is generall ...

and was hailed by the press. The album also gained attention in Järvinen's country of birth and she toured both Finland and Sweden in the autumn of 2007 and spring/summer of 2008. In 2009 Anna Järvinen's second album ''Man var bland molnen'' was released and nominated for three

. Just as her debut this album was also hailed by critics. The music critic Jan Gradvall wrote in his review that "Anna Järvinen here climbs forth as one of Sweden's most original and talented artists." The same year she sang a duet with

on his album ''Sju'' and in December 2009 released a hit with

called "I Don't Believe in Angels". 5 February 2010 she was a guest artist in SVT's ''

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''. In November 2010 she collaborated on a tribute album to the poet Sonja Åkesson with the two composed poems "O, ur Hästens öga" and "Ajajaj". During the Grammis Gala 2011 Järvinen performed together with Nina Kinert, Karla-Thérèse Kjellvander and The Rockridge Brothers

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s "Vid protesfabrikens stängsel". In 2011 she released her third album ''Anna Själv Tredje.'' In 2011 she also collaborated with Finnish artist

and released the Finnish-language song "

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" which became a big hit in Finland. On 9 November 2011 it was revealed that Järvinen was due to compete with the song "Porslin" in

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. For unknown reasons the song didn't end up competing that year and was replaced by

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's song "Shout It Out". But SVT later revealed that the song will be competing in the

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edition of Melodifestivalen instead. Anna Järvinen also works as an art teacher and English teacher at the Käppala school in

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References

External links

Official Website
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