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Alice Babs

Jan 26, 1924 - Feb 11, 2014 (90 years old) in Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden

Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.

Known For

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Musik ombord
Ulla Wickström
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Minns ni?
(archive footage)
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'Swing It' Teacher
Inga Danell
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Swing it, fröken
Alice Lind
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Our Gang
Alice Bergendahl
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Det glada kalaset
Guest house guest, jazz singer
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Resan till dej
Gunborg Karlsson
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Song of Stockholm
Britt Forsberg

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