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Lill-Babs (born Barbro Margareta Svensson) is a Swedish singer and actress who represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 in Cannes with the song April, April, which finished in 14th place. At the age of fifteen, she sang on the radioshow "Morgonkvisten" as a "young talent." The Swedish band leader and talent scout Simon Brehm had heard the show and contacted her that very same evening and invited her to audition in his studio in Stockholm. The audition went well, and she moved to Stockholm to begin her career in show business.

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  • Lill-Babs (born Barbro Margareta Svensson) is a Swedish singer and actress who represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 in Cannes with the song April, April, which finished in 14th place. At the age of fifteen, she sang on the radioshow "Morgonkvisten" as a "young talent." The Swedish band leader and talent scout Simon Brehm had heard the show and contacted her that very same evening and invited her to audition in his studio in Stockholm. The audition went well, and she moved to Stockholm to begin her career in show business.
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  • Järvsö, Sweden
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  • 1938-03-09(xsd:date)
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  • 14(xsd:integer)
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  • 1961(xsd:integer)
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  • Lill-Babs (born Barbro Margareta Svensson) is a Swedish singer and actress who represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 in Cannes with the song April, April, which finished in 14th place. At the age of fifteen, she sang on the radioshow "Morgonkvisten" as a "young talent." The Swedish band leader and talent scout Simon Brehm had heard the show and contacted her that very same evening and invited her to audition in his studio in Stockholm. The audition went well, and she moved to Stockholm to begin her career in show business. In 1954, she recorded her first record "Min mammas boogie" under the name "Lill-Babs.", a combination of the Swedish word 'little' and the Anglicized nickname for Barbro/Barbara. However, her career suffered a setback when it was discovered she was pregnant and she worked for as long as she could hide it until she gave birth to a baby girl. In 1958, she went on her first self-produced tour and was cast in the movie Fly mig en greve with comedian Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt. She made many recordings, such as the novelty song "Är du kär i mej ännu Klas-Göran?", "Leva Livet" and "En tuff brud i lyxförpackning", all of which became big sellers, Svensktoppen entries and schlager standards in Sweden. "Är Du Kär I Mig Ännu Klas-Göran" was composed by the then relatively unknown Stig Anderson, who would write several of her songs during the 1960s and go on to achieve international fame as the manager of ABBA. Her 1971 Svensktoppen hit "Välkommen Till Världen", originally composed as a contender for Melodifestivalen of that year, is of special significance in the history of ABBA since it was written and produced by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and it is also one of the earliest recordings to feature backing vocals by all four future members of the band. In 1974, Lill-Babs played the lead in the Swedish cast of musical Annie Get Your Gun, directed by writer and TV-personality Åke Falck. The show was performed at the Scandinavium hockey arena in Gothenburg for a total of 12 performances - with more than one hundred thousand tickets sold. She received excellent reviews overall and was after twenty years in show business finally acknowledged for her talent as an allround entertainer, singing, acting and dancing. In the following three decades she would go on to play sold-out cabarets at venues like Berns Salonger and Hamburger Börs in Stockholm. As of 2014, Lill-Babs is still going strong, often affectionately referred to as Sweden's "grand old lady" in show business and still frequently touring Sweden.
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