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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Carola releasing proper dance-remix for her new single - is it something happening like ages ago last time?
Though new Carola's album is just a tribute to retro-hits of Elvis and Barbra Streisand fresh single "Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)" was obviously chosen to please Carola's schlager-fans sector as first of all this cover has turned to be stunning disco-track in pretty classic manner. However for all those who is not that keen on good old disco have got fresh dance-treatment from Adam Rickfors and it really feels like Adam never disappoints these days.
Amazing club-track and soon it'll be released on iTunes.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Next week long-awaited Carola's tribute album "Elvis Barbra & Jag" will see the light and today singer has visited Efter Tio studio to support release performing two of album tracks, both beautiful acoustic ballads with calm and spiritual performance.
Later yesterday Carola performed another album track "Enough Is Enough" at Let's Dance show giving on the other hand stunning disco-performance with loads of active choreography, charisma and perfect vocal.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Today Carola has appeared in popular tv-show Skavlan with Bee Gees' Robin Gibb.
It's not the first time roads of these artists are crossed, back in 1986 Carola had a trip to USA to record her album "Runaway" produced by Maurice Gibb and written by Robin and Barry Gibb. In 25 years they've met again not only to talk about memories from the past but as well to perform their version of "How Deep Is Your Love". You know that Carola is great singer so nothing could go wrong with this truly enjoyable performance, very intimate and lovely.
You can aso watch whole show here.
UPDATE: Yesterday Carola has also performed her new single "Suspicious Minds" and it's already out on youtube so if you didn't watch whole show check it below.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Few days ago we could see announcement on Carola's facebook page talking about forthcoming single and as it was revealed before that Carola will release her tribute-album to Elvis Presley and Barbra Streisand on March 23rd it was pretty expectable to get some of covers as a single. And now it's official that new tribute-single is "Suspicious Minds" and single is already on sales immediately reaching top of iTunes marking that though Carola doesn't release her original stuff lately she's still beloved in Sweden.
Last year "Suspicious Minds" along with other covers was often performed by singer though in studio it has probably become more interesting with Carola making Aguilera in the beginning and dynamic stylish retro-pop spiced with all expression of Carola's vocal. It's not often when we like this sort of stuff but it's really-really good cover charging strongly with positive energy.
You can also check performance live-performance of this song on concert in Dalhalla here.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Two of the biggest Swedish pop-divas Carola and Lena Philipsson are ready for comebacks and already announced about it this week.
Whole last year Carola was busy promoting her tribute-concerts devoted to Elvis Presley and Barbra Streisand. Quite successfully as DVD "En magisk kväll på Dalhalla" has debuted at #1 of DVD-chart in November and Spring is already full of tour dates. Tribute album is going to be released on March 23rd and below you can see Carola working in studio on records for it. Today release of new single was also announced for January 25th (less than in a week!) on Carola's facebook page. Thanx for information to Carola International blog.
Another pop-diva ready for comeback is Lena Philipsson. Due to new published press-release from Universal new single "Idiot" will be released in the beginning of February and it's written by Magnus Lidehäll (Afasi & Filthy, Maskinen) who wrote Kylie's "Cupid Boy". Popdrömmen promises a lot of autotune and dance-music that undoubtfully sounds like a great news!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Pernilla Andersson tävlar i semifinal 1 med sin egen låt ”Desperados”. Det är Pernillas debut i Melodifestivalsammanhang men hon är ingalunda någon nykomling i musikbranschen. Sedan 1999 har hon utkommit med sju album, varav den senast, med titeln ”Ö”, utkom nu i höst. Förutom kompositör och sångerska kan hon också lägga till pianist och gitarrist på sitt visitkort.
You are an experienced musician but a debutant in Melodifestivalen. How does it feel?
- It’s a bit mind-blowing and I'm still trying to get it into my head but I think it will be a great experience.
Du är en mycket erfaren musiker men debutant I Melodifestivalssammanhang – hur känns det?
- Jag har fortfarande inte riktigt greppat det och försöker få det in i mitt huvud. Men jag är övertygad om att det kommer att bli en fantastisk upplevelse och erfarenhet.
- This year my latest album went very well on the Swedish charts and I did a big tour around Sweden, which was sold out. When this opportunity came up I thought it might be a good possibility to play one of my songs for an audience of three million people. My entry “Desperados” was supposed to be on my album but I didn’t have time to finalize it time. The song ended up being a really good one and with Melodifestivalen I found the purpose for it. In many ways it's a perfect timing for me to take part in the contest.
Hur kom det sig att du bestämde dig för att delta i Melodifestivalen?
- Mitt senaste album har gått väldigt bra på de svenska topplistorna plus att jag har turnerat för utsåld hus runtom i Sverige. När denhär möjligheten dök upp så tänkte jag att det är en enorm chans att låta tre miljoner människor får höra en av mina låtar. ”Desperados” var tänkt att ingå i mitt senaste album men jag hann inte få den klar i tid. När den väl blev klar så var det en toppenlåt men utan en given plats. Med Melodifestivalen fick den ett sammanhang och ett syfte. Det är bra timing helt enkelt att vara med i tävlingen just nu.
What kind of song is “Desperados”?
- I call is “spaghetti-western”. It’s a kind of singer-songwriter, pop-style song with some country elements, as well as guitars with tremulous and string arrangements which associate to a Clint Eastwood movie. If I may say it myself - it’s a good pop-song and I’m very proud of it!
Vilken slags låt är “Desperados”?
Jag kallar stilen för ‘spagetti-western”. Det är en singer-songwriter poplåt med lite country influenser, gitarrtremolos och stråkarrangemang med association till en Clint Eastwood film. En bra låt som jag är väldigt stolt över.
- My parents are jazz musicians so I grew up with music. At the age of 15 I started to support myself by touring with various artists as piano player. I have released seven albums in Sweden and now I mainly tour with my own band. I also write music for other artists.
Berätta lite om din bakgrund?
- Mina föräldrar är jazzmusiker så jag har växt upp med musik. Från 15 år har jag försörjt mig själv i och med att jag började turnera som pianist med olika artister. Jag har gett ut 7 album i Sverige och nuförtiden turnerar jag mest med mitt eget band. Jag skriver också musik till andra.
Have your music been released abroad?
- I have been working both in Belgium and The Netherlands as a songwriter. One of my songs sold gold in Belgium with a singer called Eva de Roovere. It gives the music another dimension when you write for others and it’s something I like very much.
Hur är det med din karriär utanför Sverige?
- Jag har arbetat i Belgien och Holland som låtskrivare. En av mina låtar har salt guld I Belgien med en artist som heter Eva de Roovere. Musiken får en annan dimension när man skriver för andra.
- I do not have a very strong relationship but I remember when ABBA won. ‘Remember’ is maybe not the correct expression as I was too little by that time but it influenced me as I’m a huge ABBA-fan. I also have a great memory from 1983 when Carola won Melodifestivalen with “Främling”. The last couple of years I have been following the contest as I have friends who have participated, like Salem Al Fakir last year. I loved his song and he is a great artist. I’m so convinced that he would have won the whole contest. So in other words – I do not have a very close relationship – but I’m getting one now!
- Jag kan inte påstå att jag har en jättestark relation men jag minns när ABBA vann. ’Minns’ kanske är fel ord eftersom jag var för liten men det påverkade mig ändå eftersom jag är en stort ABBA-fan. Jag minns också när Carola vann med ”Främling”. De senaste åren har jag följt tävlingen eftersom jag haft vänner som deltagit. Till exempel Salem Al Fakir som jag tycker borde ha vunnit hela tävlingen. En fantastisk låt med en fantastisk artist. Med andra ord har jag inte haft en nära relation till tävlingen men jag kommer att få det nu!
We wish you the best of luck in semi-final 1.
Learn more about Pernilla: www.pernillaandersson.com
Saturday, November 13, 2010
After brand new song "Still Love You" recently presented at Carola's site singer confirmed that she is going to release tribute-album to Elvis and Barbra after shows she was around last Summer. Great news for Carola's fans but not as great for those who want to get some really new stuff from the singer. So our dear schlager-songbird provides us with some new music pieces!
This week Carola appeared at Skavlan show performing with amazing Norwegian artist Sissel Kyrkjebø single "Velkommen hjem" from her album. Unfortunately it's released in solo-version by Sissel but still we can enjoy live-version of this Christmas beautiful ballad, Carola looks better and better with time, don't you think?
Project Sweet Chariots consisting of well-known musicians Niclas Frisk and Andreas Mattson is releasing re-edition of the album "Beat Based, Song Centered, Spirit Led" (2000) with 5 new tracks and among them first version of old Carola's hit "You+Me" entered her album "My Show" in a bit different and poppier one. But that version is pretty charming with its retro-pop feeling so you can listen below and judge yourself. Thanx for interesting information to Carola International blog.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Like many other Swedish pop-artists Carola's preparing for annual Christmas tour due to dates on her site it's gonna be really active tour. Earlier this year I've given you a tip to her tribute-concert devoted to Elvis and Barbra Streisand covers in Dalhalla. It was showed on TV4 and later it was released on DVD and due to tracklist the concert was really massive and if you're Carola's fan... Oh are you Carola's fan and still don't have it? I don't believe you! Well, however as the last Carola's studio album (not considering compillations and covers-albums) was released 4 years ago there are a lot of fans missing completely new stuff and before Royal Wedding this year they've got new Carola's single "Det är bara vi". Now Carola's presenting new piece of her music with the song "Still Love You" - beautiful classic schlager-ballad a bit in a style of "Det är bara vi" but more powerful and emotional, I bet no one Carola's ballads fan will be disappointed.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
If you've missed opportunity to watch Carola's tribute concert to Elvis Presley and Barbara Streysand in Dalhalla this July TV4 gives you a chance to see it. These artists meant a lot for Carola and her family so this concert was also devoted to memories of her beloved parents.
Carola has started programme riding to the stage on a bike and singing Elvis' "See See Rider" continuing this rock'n'roll part with "Burning Love", "Love Me Tender" (in acoustic), Elvis-medley ("Blue Swede Shoes", "Tutti Frutti", "That's Alright Mama", "Hound Dog", "Shake Rattle and Roll", "Jailhouse Rock") and "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" that she presented earlier this year at Allsång På Skansen. Next part of programme devoted to Barbara Streysand has started from beautiful performance of "Somewhere" with Carola floating on boat from behind of the stage in fabulous dress singing "Happy Days Are Here Again", "Woman In Love" (truly great cover being one of the highlights of concert in my opinion), "Enough Is Enough" (disco-performance that got really great responce from audience), "Papa, can you hear me?" and finished with Elvis' "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and "An American Trilogy".
On the stage Carola was supported by band of live band and MF-choir professionals Michael Blomqvist, Anna Nilsson and Joanna Eriksson. Really great show proving Carola's status as one of the biggest Swedish stars, watch it here or right below.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Yesterday annual tv-event "Allsång På Skansen" has started new season on SVT and audience from the very first show got the biggest names on the stage - three winners of Melodifestivalen - Carola, The Ark and Anna Bergendahl performed with some old hits singing karaoke with public and performed their own stuff. Carola was promoting her new programme devoted to Elvis Presley and Barbara Streisand with their songs (performance of "Woman In Love" deserves special attention!), The Ark performed their new songs "Take A Shine To Me" and "Stay With Me" and Anna was singing "This Is My Life" and "Have A Heart". But don't forget to check some old hits covers, for example Anna's "Båtlåt" turned to be very sweet one showing uniqueness of Miss Bergendahl's voice. Among other guests of the show you could see MozART Group, Thomas Järvheden and Hanna Hedlund. Watch whole show here.
Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life
Anna Bergendahl - Båtlåt
Anna Bergendahl - Have A Heart
Carola - Woman In Love
Carola - You've lost that loving feeling
Carola - Idas Sommarvisa
The Ark - Stay With Me
The Ark - Take A Shine To Me
The Ark & Carola - Calleth You Cometh I
Ola Salo - Sjuttonde Balladen
Thomas Järvheden - Sekundär Ångest
MozART Group - How To Impress A Woman Being A Musician
MozART Group - Amadeus Jackson
Robban Broberg Potpurri
Allsång - Upp och pröva dina vingar
Sunday, June 20, 2010
One of the highlights of Friday concert in Kulturhuset was performance of one of Kent's hits "Utan Dina Andetag" ("Without Your Breath") by Lisa Nilsson as very beautiful and emotional ballad that turned to be my personal discovery as before I heard this song only in its initial version. This song has never been released as a single, it wasn't even included in album, just appeared as b-side of single "Om du var här" (1996) and later on compilation "B-sidor 95–00" but became very popular wedding soundtrack around country in it's ballad performance and you can find it on Swedish part of 3CD compilation "Absolute Bröllop" (released this May) being sung by Erik Linder. By the way you can find some other songs that you probably know and like long time like Cecilia Vennersten's "Det Vackraste", Sonja Alden's "För Att Du Finns", Per Gessle's "Tycker Om När Du Tar På Mig", Carola's "När Löven Faller", Suzzie Tapper's "Visst Finns Mirakel", Sara Löfgren's "För Alltid", (classic compillation without classic band???) Abba's "Dancing Queen" and some other beautiful songs.
Back to "Utan Dina Andetag" last week right before the Royal Wedding the song got it's re-birth by Carolina Wallin Pérez singer well-known by her covers of Kent. Cover was initialy released on Carolina's album "Pärlor och Svin" in October 2009, album is actually half-acoustic, half-jazz cover-collection of best Kent's song, very nice relaxing work that you can taste here.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
God bless TV4! These people make amazing present to everyone who can't come to LOVE Stockholm 2010 and upload full-length gigs of some artists like Sanna Nielsen (Strong, Impatiently Waiting For You, Devotion, Sound Of Spring (new song!!!), I Can Catch The Moon, Hela Världen För Mig, Vågar Du Vågar Jag, But I Know What I Want, Empty Room), Carola (Evighet and duet with Samuel Ljungblahd), Takida, Samuel Ljungblad and Timo Räisinen. The most amazing part of it for me personally is Sanna's gig, sure it can't pass even half of emotions that gives her performance when you're right in front of the stage but the quality of concert record is fantastic so you can enjoy it on maximum.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
...You could see Ola Svensson singing Tomas Ledin's song "En Dag På Stranden" on the stage of Skansen on National Day...
...Carola performing her new single "Det är bara vi" devoted to wedding of princess Victoria...
...Eric Gadd with his last single "Rise Up!" and well-known back-vocalists (Thérèse Löf, Michael Blomqvist and Anna Andersson) behind him (MF-2011 warning???) on a beautiful stage on Skeppsbron...
...Sarah Dawn Finer covering the winner of Eurovision-2010...
... Kalle Moraeus just having sold his new album golden with the song that really helped him with it...
and also
...especially popular these days band Johnossi performing their hit-single "What's The Point?"...
...Cookies N Beans covering Bee Gees classics "Islands In The Stream"...
... Timo Räisänen performing his last single "Outcast"...
...Rigo performing on National Day Swedish song "Stockholms Ström" (no ideas about where it came from)...
and Miss Li with really nice performance of her "Bourgeois Shangri-La".
If you're still gonna be in Stockholm in close future, don't forget to check programme of LOVE Stockholm 2010 or take a look at this short programme from Aftonbladet.
Also two summer great tv-shows "Allsång på Skansen" and "Lotta på Liseberg" have announced this year line-ups.
"Allsång på Skansen" will start 29th June and we'll see among others The Ark, Anna Bergendahl, Carola, Eric Saade, Darin, Timoteij, Kikki Danielsson, Salem Al Fakir, Thomas Di Leva, Oskar Linnros, Mando Diao, Tove Styrke, Orup, Hanna Lindblad, Charlotte Perrelli, Magnus Carlsson, Måns Zelmerlöw and Sarah Dawn Finer.
http://svt.se/2.112060
"Lotta på Liseberg"'s (starting from 21th June) line-up is not less fantastic and has a lot of interesting artists like Charlotte Perrelli, Alexander Rybak, Markoolio, Linda Bengtzing, Velvet, Alcazar, Jessica Andersson, Erik Linder, Kalle Moraeus, Sanna Nielsen, Timo Räisinen, Måns Zelmerlöw, Timoteij, Maria Haukaas Storeng, Erik Gadd, Andreas Johnson, Cookies n’ beans, Anna Bergendahl, Jill Johnson, Rigo, Caroline af Ugglas and Eric Saade.
http://www.tv4.se/1.1668077
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Just a few weeks left before one of the main cultural events of this year in Sweden - marriage of princess Victoria and Daniel Westling and Stockholm's already preparing for this royal celebration. This Sunday when Sweden will be celebrating National Day (as always with some exciting open-air concerts in Stockholm) 2-weeks festival LOVE Stockholm 2010 will start with different activities all over the city and will finish on 19th June in a day of Victoria's wedding. These days Stockholm will see performances of artists like Darin, Carola, Alexander Rybak, Anna Bergendahl, Timoteij, Salem Al Fakir, Erik Grönwall, Orup, Martin Stenmarck, Moto Boy, Ola, Cookies N Beans, Shirley Clamp, Anne-Lie Rydé, Sanna Nielsen, Fibes, Oh Fibes!, Alice Svensson, Rebound, Nanne, Rigo, Amy Diamond. Check information about festival here and watch trailer of festival with Linda Sundblad's "Making Out" as soundtrack.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
When Linda Bengtzing sang in Aqua and Bosson's skin was black and white...
0 comments Posted by ai at 6:48 AM
I'd like to put your attention on one interesting show being popular in Sweden in 90s. Sure many of you know about Fame Factory (talent-show in the beginning of 00s) and artists which came from it (Linda Bengtzing, Sandra Oxenryd, Magnus Bäcklund, Mathias Holmgren...) but then many of these singers were already not newcomers for Swedish audience participating before in show "Sikta mot stjärnorna". The aim of participants was to imitate different big stars and the winner of every show qualified to the final. The winner of the final was sent to European final. In this amazing show you could see Sandra Oxenryd as Carola, Magnus Bäcklund as Tom Jones, Mathias Holmgren as Nick Kamen, Cecilia Vennersten as Mariah Carey, Caroline Wennergren as Ella Fitzgerald and you can also watch yourself performances of Linda Bengtzing doing Lene from Aqua, Shirley Clamp doing Maria McKee, Bosson as Michael Jackson and Date as Take That.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
När Anna Bergendahl kommer på tal eller när jag hör låten kommer jag att tänka på skillingtrycket ”Lilla vackra Anna” som skrevs Bengt Henrik Alstermark 1824:
”Lilla vackra Anna, om du vill,
hörer dig mitt hela hjärta till.
Jag är öm och trogen
och i dygder mogen,
tycker om att vara jäv och gill.”
Nu återstår att se om Eurovisionens TV-tittare är Anna trogen eller om hon tappas bort bland de andra balladerna. I Europredition som anordnas av www.oikotimes.com, dvs läsarna får rösta på vilken låt de tror vinner, så ligger ”This Is My Life” i topp. Just nu växlar första platsen mellan Anna och Danmarks Chanée & N’evergreen ”In A Moment Like This”: Europrediction - oikotimes.com
Sverige startar som nummer 6 i semifinal 2.
Medverkat i ESC: Sedan 1958, med undantag för 1964, 1970, 1976
Bästa placering: Vunnit 4 gånger: 1974 med ABBA och ”Waterloo”, 1984 med Herrey’s och ” Diggi-loo Diggy-ley”, 1991 med Carola och ”Fångad Av En Stormvind”, 1999 med Charlotte Nilsson och ” Take Me To Your Heaven”.
Min personliga favorit: Alla vinnarlåtar men om jag väljer ett bidrag som inte vunnit så blir det Friends och ”Listen To Your Heartbeat” från 2001.
Källa/foto: Lilian, JP, eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com
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