Irmgard Österwall (18 August 1914 – 31 December 1980) was a Swedish singer. Österwall began singing in amateur societies and debuted as a singer in Gosta Jonsson's orchestra. She debuted as a soloist in 1941 and in the early 1940s sang with her brother

Seymour Österwall Seymour Österwall (born Karl Seimer Östervall; 20 February 1908 in Stockholm, Sweden – 3 August 1981 in Stockholm) was a Swedish jazz musician (proficient on the tenor saxophone), bandleader and composer. Österwall played with the orchestra ...

's orchestra. She is considered one of Sweden's first

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and was sometimes called "Red Hot Mama." In the early 1950s, she retired as a singer after marrying the painter Tore Catoni.

Discography

* Oh! Mother (Luna mezzo mare), with Leon Liljequist and Arena Orchestra * A good man all week, with Seymour Orchestra * I've loved you so long as I can remember, with Einar Groth orchestra * Lamberth Walk, with the Scala orchestra * Oh, mia bella Napoli Ami, with Helge Mauritz and Scala orchestra * Star Grandeur, with Thore Ehrlings orchestra * Above the rainbow, with Thore Ehrlings orchestra

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Osterwall, Irmgard 1914 births 1980 deaths Swedish jazz singers 20th-century Swedish women singers