Nanne Grönvall is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her musical career started in the 1980s group "Sound of Music". The trio participated twice in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selections, Melodifestivalen, finishing fourth both times; in 1986 with "Eldorado" and in 1987 with "Alexandra". Over the following ten years she established herself as a songwriter in Melodifestivalen, …

Lena Philipsson, also known as Lena Ph, is a Swedish singer and media personality. Philipsson came to notice in the Swedish "New Faces" in 1982. Her career started with the single "Boy/You Open My Eyes" (1984) and with her participations at Melodifestivalen 1986, 1987 and 1988. In the early 1990’s her fame increased in Sweden, and she continued to release albums of varying styles until 1997. She returned in 2004 after a seven year hiatus.

Per Allan Magnus Claesson Uggla (born June 18, 1954 in Stockholm) is a Swedish artist and composer known for his satirical lyrics. He is a member of the Swedish nobility and a descendant of several European rulers, among which John III of Sweden, Gustav Vasa, and Charlemagne. Povel Ramel awarded him the Karamelodiktstipendiet in 1991. In 1979, he was one of the members in Magnus Uggla Band.

Kee Marcello is the former guitarist in the Swedish hard rock band Europe. He joined the band in November 1986, replacing John Norum, and remained in the band until they took a break in 1992. Throughout the years, Marcello has played in various bands and produced several artists. Before he joined Europe he played in the glam rock band Easy Action. They released two albums.

Papa Dee is the stage name for rap, ragga and dancehall musician Daniel Wahlgren (born July 13,1966 in Gothenburg, Sweden). Papa Dee's commercially most successful track is his version of the Cat Stevens song "The First Cut is the Deepest". He debuted in 1988 with the single "Funky Raggamuffin/Let the music play", a mixture of dancehall and hip hop. He then joined, and became the rapper for the group Stonefunkers, …

Cornelis Vreeswijk, (August 8, 1937 - November 12, 1987) was a singer-songwriter, poet and actor who was born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands but moved to Sweden with his parents in 1949, at the age of twelve. He trained as a social worker and hoped to become a journalist but became instead a musician whose idiosyncratic humor and social engagement are still gaining him new fans.

Tommy Nilsson (born March 11, 1960) is a Swedish rock singer and composer. Swedish critics state that he has one of best best voices of Sweden. In the late 70's, the artist was the singer of a Swedish Heavy Metal band Horizont. The group released two albums but a French producer, Yves Accary, contacted Tommy Nilsson and signed him to a French record company. The singer enjoyed his first big hit in France in 1981 with the song "No Way No How".

Alexander Bard (born March 17 1961 in Motala) is a Zoroastrian Swedish artist, music producer and philosopher. Bard began his musical career in 1982 with the single "Life in a Goldfish Bowl" released under the name Baard, a synth-punk fusion project he had formed together with two female striptease dancers. He has since claimed that he spent the Baard years living as a male prostitute in Amsterdam. Bard later had some minor success as Barbie, …

Lars-Eric Gustav Holm, born december 9 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden, songwriter, song text writer and singer. Since childhood, he was very interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: "Doug and the Millsmen", "The Spacemen" and "The Moonlighters". During the 1980s, he was a songwriter for Chips and Mats Rådberg & Rankarna. Holm is mostly known as schlager composer and he has, …

Shirley Natasja Clamp is a Swedish pop singer. Because her mother is Swedish and her father is British, Shirley has dual nationality. Her career began as a backing singer for various singers and groups, including Antique. She started her solo career in 2003, when she took part in Melodifestivalen 2003 with the song "Mr. Memory". Finishing in 6th place in her semifinal, she lost the chance to qualify for the final.

Uno Svenningsson, born 1 July 1959 in Hagelstorp, Sweden is a Swedish pop singer and guitarist, who has been active in music since the late 1970s. He was the singer in the pop group "Freda'" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the group had hit songs like "Vindarna" and "Det gör mig så lycklig". Since 1994, Svenningsson has been a solo artist. His first four solo albums sold approximately 300,000 copies.

Bobby Ljunggren is a Swedish songwriter. He has entered the Eurovision Song Contest four times, three times for his native Sweden 1995, 1998 and 2006), and once for Lithuania, in 2005. He is a veteran of the Melodifestivalen competition, with 23 entries.

Sebastian Karlsson, or Sebastian (born 2 January 1985), is a Swedish singer and performer, best known for his participation in Idol 2005, where he came in second place after Agnes Carlsson. He got a radio hit in Sweden with his first single "Do what you're told". He is also competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2007 with the song "When the Night Comes Falling" for the opportunity to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, …

Tomas Ledin is a Swedish singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. He grew up in the town of Sandviken. Ledin has been one of Sweden's most popular recording artists since the 1970s. He was a backing vocalist for ABBA during their 1979-81 live shows. He won the Swedish Melodifestivalen in 1980 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest that year with "Just Nu." In 1982, …

Andreas Johnson is a Swedish pop musician and songwriter.

Regina Charlotta Lund is a Swedish actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress Sonja Lund. Regina is no longer in a relationship with the Swedish rock star Joakim Thåström. In 2007 Regina performed the song "Rainbow Star" in the Melodifestivalen competition, but was eliminated after the semi-final.

Carola Maria Häggkvist, better known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and entertainer. She has represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions: she finished third in 1983 with "Främling", first in 1991 with "Fångad av en Stormvind" and fifth in 2006 with "Invincible".

Anders Glenmark is a Swedish pop and rock singer. He is the brother of Karin Glenmark and nephew of Bruno Glenmark. Anders Glenmark has been a member of several groups, including the family group Glenmarks and the siblings duo Gemini. Since 1994 he has been a member of the group GES together with Orup and Niklas Strömstedt. He has participated in Melodifestivalen six times.

Patrik Isaksson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He competed in Swedish Melodifestivalen 2006 with the song "Faller du så faller jag".

Bo "Martin" Erik "E-Type" Eriksson is a musician who was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1965. His father is Bo ("Bosse") G. Eriksson, known from the science TV-program "Vetenskapens Värld" (World of Science). His mother's name is Elisabeth. He has one sibling, his sister Erika.

Monica Forsberg, Monica Yvonne Forsberg, born September 14 1950 in Karlskoga, Sweden, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress, She was a member in the group Ritz, which competed in Melodifestivalen in 1983 (number 4 with the song "Marionett") and 1985 (with the song "Nu har det hänt igen", which finished unplaced). As a song text writer, she has won melodifestivalen twice, …

Lars "Lasse" Lönndahl born August 19, 1928 Swedish singer, born in Stockholm. His breakthrough was in 1949 with his first record, "Tangokavaljeren", which reached #1 in Sweden. After that he became one of the leading faces in popular music, scoring 12 nr. 1 hit singles in the '50s. The ingles included: "Ett Vänligt Litet Ord" (1952), "Sången Från Moulin Rougue" (1953), "That's Amore" (1953), "Legenden Om Tina" (1954), "Man Måste Vara Två" (1956), …

Anna Cecilia Sahlin, commonly known as Sahlene, Anna Sahlin or Anna Sahlene, is a singer from Sweden. She was born in the Swedish town of Söderhamn on 11 May 1976. She began her career at the young age of eleven when she had a role in the tv-series "The Children of Bullerbyn", based on a story by Astrid Lindgren. Seven years later she moved to Stockholm to start a musical career.

Andreas Lundstedt is a Swedish musician (born Björn Helge Andreas Lundstedt, 20 May 1972, Uppsala) who is best-known as a member of the pop-disco group, Alcazar.

Fredrik Kempe, born in Vårgårda in 1972, is a Swedish song writer and opera and pop singer. He has participated in Swedish versions of the musicals Les Misérables and Chess. In 2002, Kempe had a hit with "Vincerò", where he mixed opera and disco. At the Melodifestivalen 2004, he performed his own song "Finally", a tribute to his favourite composer Benny Andersson. One year later, he performed in the contest again, together with Sanna Nielsen, …

Mats Söderlund is a Swedish musician, club owner, and former model, best known under his stage name Günther. After retiring from modeling, he managed clubs in Malmö. In 2004, he started his musical career performing with the stage name "Günther". Söderlund's work is marked by upbeat, pop influenced rhythms done with deep sensuous vocals that can be classified as pop and dance (Eurodance).

Thomas Gustafsson is a Swedish composer and musician from Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden, north-east of Göteborg. However, he is much more known nationally and internationally simply as Thomas G:son, his artistic name. Since 1998, Thomas has worked full time as a songwriter for the company G:songs. In addition to writing and composing songs for a living, he plays the guitar in a hard rock band.

Paul Rein is a leading Swedish songwriter based in Stockholm. Rein is well known within the music industry for his hit songs which have enjoyed success on the Billboard charts, performed by vocalists such as Christina Aguilera ("Come On Over"), Jessica Simpson ("I've Got My Eyes On You"), Victoria Beckham, Mandy Moore, H & Claire, No Angels and Nikki Webster.

Lars "Lasse" Nils Berghagen is a Swedish singer, songwriter, composer and actor. A well known singer-songwriter in Sweden with a great number of songs. He released his first record 1965, when he was only 19 years old. Four years later, 1969, he released the single "Teddybjörnen Fredriksson" ("The Teddybear Fredriksson"), which has become a song classic. Other hits include "Sträck ut din hand", "En kväll i juni" and "Stockholm i mitt hjärta".

Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad was a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician.

Orup (born Thomas Eriksson on November 29 1958 in Stockholm) is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and guitarists who enjoyed major success in his native country Sweden in the late 1980s with songs like "Då står pojkarna på rad", "Magaluf" and "Regn hos mig". Orup is also a songwriter and has written songs for Lena Philipsson among others.

Maria Rådsten, is a Swedish singer. She began her musical career with the group Peter's Pop Squad. Later, she would become part of One More Time (band), with which she achieved great international success. She has participated four times in the Melodifestivalen: - As a solo artist in 1992, with the song "Vad som än händer" ("Whatever Happens"), achieving third place.<br>; - As a songwriter in 1995, as the author of the song "Det Vackraste" ("The Most Beautiful Thing"), …

Sonja Aldén, born 20 December 1977 in St Albans, England, United Kingdom, is a Swedish singer mostly famous for her 2006 Melodifestivalen entry "Etymon" and her ability to write songs for other artists, like for the hard rock/heavy metal band The Poodles, who also participated in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2006. In the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2007, Sonja Aldén participated with the ballad "För att du finns", …

Göran Folkestad, born 1952, is a Swedish songwriter and singer. He has competed three times in Melodifestivalen during the 1980s, with the songs: *1984: "Sankta Cecilia" 2nd (duet with Lotta Engberg, back in those days named "Pedersen" as surname. *1985: "Eld och lågor" 3rd *1987: "Sommarnatt", unplaced (Te song was sung by Robert Wells)

Torgny Söderberg, born in Varberg, Sweden, is a songwriter. He has worked a lot together with Lena Philipsson and written schlager songs as "100%", "Kärleken är evig" and "Diggi-loo diggi-ley". "Diggi-loo diggi-ley" won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984 and even the Eurovision Song Contest 1984.

Ola Salo, real name "Rolf Ola Anders Svensson", born 19 February 1977 in Avesta, is a Swedish rock singer in the Swedish glam rock band The Ark. Ola lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child. It was while living in Rottne, in 1991, that he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Ark. Ola writes almost all of the band's lyrics himself, …

Camilla Brinck is a Swedish singer. She released her first album in the early 2000s. She is mostly known for her two singles "Bye Bye Forever (Chiki Chiki)" and "Tell me". She participated in the semifinals of Melodifestivalen 2005 with the song "Jenny", but failed to qualify for the final.

Ingela 'Pling' Forsman, born August 26 1950 in Essinge, Sweden, is a Swedish lyricist in popular music and schlager music. Between 1981 and 2006, 29 of her songs have competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen, three of them winners: "Bra vibrationer" (1985), "Se på mig" (1995) and "Kärleken är" (1998). She has also written the text to psalm number 862 in the Swedish hymn book, "Blomningstid", and two children's books.