Emma Clara Idun Klingenström (; born 21 February 1995) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She started her music career in 2010 and 2015 after winning the
Gotland
Gotland (; ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a Provinces of Sweden, province/Counties of Sweden, county (Swedish län), Municipalities of Sweden, municipality, a ...
region final of the music competition Musik Direkt.
Career
In 2010, Klingenström participated in the web wildcard contest of
Melodifestivalen 2011 with the song "Mr Lonely Man" and made it among the top 100 entries. Klingenström won the Gotland region of the music competition Svensktoppen nästa, held by
Sveriges Radio P4
P4 (''pe fyra'') is a national radio channel produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. P4 was started in 1987 as a network of regional stations, but national programming was added in 1993 when P3 was relaunched as a specialist you ...
with the song "It Makes Me Crazy" in 2012.
Klingenström participated in
Melodifestivalen 2021 with the song "
Behöver inte dig idag" which she co-wrote with
Bobby Ljunggren
Bobby Ljunggren (born 6 June 1961) is a Swedish songwriter. He has entered the Eurovision Song Contest as a composer six times, five times for his native Sweden (1995, 1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010), and once for Lithuania, in 2005. He is a veteran ...
and David Lindgren Zacharias, advancing to the ''Andra chansen'' round. She then made it to the final held on 13 March. In the Swedish final she finished in fifth place.
On 13 August 2021, Clara released her new personal single 'Liv' one year after her father's death. The song reached 18th place on ITunes Charts.
In 2021, Clara won the Swedish music award Rockbjörnen.
In 2024, she participated again in
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 ...
with the song "", also co-written with Ljunggren and Lindgren Zacharias; she was eliminated in her heat on 17 February 2024.
Discography
Studio albums
* ''Claras dagbok'' (2021)
Singles
Notes
References
Living people
1995 births
21st-century Swedish women singers
Swedish women songwriters
Swedish-language singers
People from Visby
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