Lena Philipsson

Swedish pop singer and songwriter Lena Philipsson has enjoyed a multi-colored and frequently effective career in her residential country. She was a normal presence in the Swedish graphs in the past due ’80s and early ’90s. As her reputation faded in the past due ’90s she had taken a seven-year documenting hiatus prior to making a spectacular return with 2004’s Det Gör Ont En Stund På Natten Guys Inget På Dan, the best-selling record of her profession, which have scored three consecutive TOP hits in the Swedish graphs, including the substantial number one name track. Delivered on January 19, 1966, in Vetlanda, Sweden, Philipsson initial came to open public attention on Television talent present New Encounters in 1982. She released her initial one, “Boy” b/w “You Open up My Eye,” in 1984, but her profession actually kicked off 2 yrs afterwards when she inserted Melodifestivalen, the Swedish qualifier for the Eurovision Track Contest as well as the most viewed display on Swedish tv. Her access, “Kärleken Är Evig,” compiled by Per Gessle and Torgny Söderberg, completed in second place with 42 factors, and reached number 3 around the Swedish singles graph. Her debut recording, also entitled Kärleken Är Evig, was a high 20 strike. She competed once again in Melodifestivalen the next 12 months with “Dansa I Neon.” This time around she arrived in 5th place, as well as the track was another big strike, and is known as among her signature tunes. It’s been sampled by many Swedish performers, including Philipsson herself on her behalf 2004 strike, “Lena Anthem.” In 1988 she competed in Melodifestivalen just as before using the ballad “Om Igen,” which completed in second place and once again became a high Ten strike. The album Speaking in Your Rest, which mixed British and Swedish-language music, became her initial Top Ten record. Released in 1989, My Name was her initial album to become recorded completely in British, and became her most effective release compared to that stage, going dual platinum with over 120,000 copies marketed. This was accompanied by A Woman’s Gotta Perform Just what a Woman’s Gotta Perform, a Adam Bond-inspired concept record about a imaginary secret agent. It had been the first record that Philipsson added songwriting to every monitor, and was another big strike. Nevertheless, her popularity had taken a significant drop in the ’90s, and following commercial failing of 1997’s Basta Vanna, she retired from energetic documenting for seven years. In 2004 she produced her first access in to the Melodifestivalen like a vocalist since 1988. With her profession widely regarded as over, she experienced too much to show. The contest experienced also changed considerably since her earlier entries; it right now presented a semifinal stage and was a lot more competitive. Nevertheless, Philipsson’s access, “Det Gör Ont,” was immediately hailed like a traditional, and by using a now famous performance where she straddled her mike stand in the design of Steve Tyler of Aerosmith, she sailed in to the finals and received the competition with 232 factors. An English documenting of the track, “It Hurts,” was after that taken up to the 2004 Eurovision Track Competition in Turkey, where she completed in 5th place. “Det Gör Ont” became an enormous strike in Sweden, topping the graphs for seven weeks and spending 37 weeks at the top 50. “It Hurts” also reached the very best Five individually, despite being basically the same track. The recording Det Gör Ont En Stund På Natten Males Inget På Dan proceeded to go precious metal (30,000 copies offered) in only nine times, and spent 51 weeks within the Swedish graphs, ultimately going dual platinum and providing her the very best operate of strikes of her profession. Further singles “Lena Anthem” and “Delirium” both produced the very best Ten, with “På Gatan Där Jag Bor” also achieving the Best 30. In 2005 Philipsson released her tenth studio room record, Jag Ångrar Ingenting, which topped the Swedish graphs and quickly proceeded to go platinum, yielding two even more TOP singles with “Unga Pojkar & Äldre Män” and “Han Jobbar I Affär.” In 2006 Lena 20 År , a compilation spanning twenty years of energetic recording, premiered.