Krång Anna Carolina Norén (born 29 January 1965) is a Swedish radio presenter for

Sveriges Radio Sveriges Radio Aktiebolag, AB (; "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio programming, radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a television ...

and

television presenter A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces or hosts television show, television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. It is common for people ...

. She has been the host of the music chart show ''

Svensktoppen ''Svensktoppen'' () is a weekly record chart airing on Sveriges Radio. Until January 2003, the songs had to be in the Swedish language. Svensktoppen has aired since 1962, except for the years 1982–1985. In the years leading up to the January 20 ...

'' since 2007 and also commentates on Sveriges Radio's broadcasts of

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; ) 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 almo ...

and the annual

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...

Life and career

She took the first steps to a radio career when she participated as an interviewer at the legendary Radio SBC in the Stockholm community radio in 1980–82. She also made some appearances at

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

's student radio station, which eventually led her to being employed by Radio Stockholm through Sveriges Radio between 1989 and 1997. In 1992, she hosted the first season of the series ''Här är ditt kylskåp'' ("Here is your refrigerator"), which was broadcast on SVT. In 1998, she moved to P4 Riks in an attempt to make the radio channel more youth-oriented. She presented, among other, the entertainment show ''Curry-Curry'' which was broadcast on Friday nights. Since 1999, Norén has been Sveriges Radio's commentator and host for Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contests broadcasts. 2004 through 2006, Norén hosted the nostalgia program ''64-93'' at Sveriges Radio P4. She has also done portrait shows with guests such as Erland Josephson, Lena Nyman and Jan Guillou. In 2006 she was also host and producer for the series ''Let the Music Play'', that played mostly disco and soul songs. In August 2007, she succeeded Annika Jankell as the host of ''Svensktoppen''. On 2 November 2014 Norén revealed that she had been the driving force to change the rules for the songs appearing on Svensktoppen, namely having the voting public deciding via a vote if a song should be able to stay on the chart longer than a year. Norén currently hosts ''Knattetimmen'' on Sveriges Radio P4. Norén lives in Herräng near Norrtälje.

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