Billie the Vision & the Dancers are a

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band with roots in

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and

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. The band recorded the first album '' I Was So Unpopular in School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle'' in the spring of 2004. They produce their albums through the company ''Love will pay the Bills''. Free

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files of all five albums are available through their website, with an appeal for donations in return. Their song, Summercat, was used in an advert for Spanish lager makers,

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. The band were also included in the advert, performing in Formentera. The first airing of the Barcelona-based beer companies advert was in Spain, 2009. It first aired in the UK in the Spring of 2012.

Biography

Billie the Vision and the Dancers were formed in Malmö, Sweden. They recorded their first album in the spring of 2004. Singer Lars Lindquist started as a soloist but later formed the band.

Members

* Silvio Arismendi -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(2005–present) * Pontus Janninge -

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

(2018–present) * Sofia Janninge -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(2004–present) * Gustav Kronkvist -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

(2004–2012, 2016-present) * Lars Lindquist -

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

(2004–present) * Maria Thenor -

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

(2004–present)

Former members

* John Dunsö -

backing Vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

(2004–2010) * Lisa Haglind -

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

synths A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and f ...

(2004–2008) * Frida Brattgård –

(2008–2012) * Jon Lindquist -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

(2008–2014)

Discography

* '' I Was So Unpopular in School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle'' (2004) * '' The World According to Pablo'' (2005) * '' Where the Ocean Meets My Hand'' (2007) * '' I Used to Wander These Streets'' (2008) * '' From Burning Hell to Smile and Laughter'' (2010) * '' While You Were Asleep'' (2012) * '' The Key To My Magic World'' (EP) (2015) * '' What's The Matter With You Boy?'' (2017) * '' Billie No Mates'' (2019)

Singles

* "A man from Argentina" * "Ask for More" * "Scared" * "So you want me to Bleed" * "Absolutely, Salutely" * "Summercat" (2009) * "Queen of the Dancefloor" (2012)

References

External links

Billie the Vision & the Dancers Official Site
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