Björn Skifs

The long documenting career of Swedish singer/songwriter Björn Skifs spanned several decades, from the 1960s and carrying on in to the up coming century. His very best success arrived in the middle- to past due ’70s when he obtained a few Swedish Best Five (“Firefly,” 1976; “Woman,” 1977) and TOP (“Härligt, Härligt Males Farligt, Farligt,” 1978; “Det Blir Alltid Värre Framåt Natten,” 1978) strikes, not forgetting his 1974 American chart-topper “Addicted to a sense,” credited towards the music group Blue Swede (also called Blåblus in Sweden). Given birth to on Apr 20, 1947, in Vansbro, Sweden, Skifs started his recording profession in the music group Slam Creepers, which released a few albums (Bubbles, 1967; Nice Ruth, 1968) before he break up for a single career. The single albums From Both Edges Now (1969), JUST of MY ENTIRE LIFE (1970), and Opopoppa (1971) weren’t especially successful, though, therefore Skifs created the music group Blåblus, called after his 1972 single recording from the same name. The music group was showcased within the 1973 recording Pinewood Rally, comprised mainly of English-language requirements such as for example Leon Russell’s “A Track for you personally” and Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Usually Something There to Remind Me.” A cover from the 1969 B.J. Thomas track “Addicted to a sense” became a shock number one strike in america in 1974, prompting the re-release of Pinewood Rally as Addicted to a Feeling beneath the English-language name Blue Swede instead of Blåblus. After an English-language follow-up recording featuring Blåblus, Out of nowhere (1974), Skifs resumed his single profession and released some extremely popular Swedish albums, specifically Schiffz (1975), LOOK OUT! (1977), Split Eyesight (1979), and If…After that… (1984), not forgetting some relatively much less popular produces. During his time frame of peak achievement, Skifs competed double in the Eurovision Tune Competition, in 1978 and 1981, with respect to Sweden. In the past due ’80s Skifs resigned in the music picture for ten years . 5, during which period several greatest-hits compilations had been issued. Back on the right track (2001), a high Ten hit record, signaled his go back to the music industry. Among his follow-ups, Decennier (2005) was especially effective, debuting at number 1 in the Swedish albums graph. The successive produces Andra Decennier (2006) and I2I (2007) also demonstrated exceptionally well-known, peaking respectively at number 1 and two in the albums graph.