Alice Babs
Alice Babs | |
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| File:Alice Babs-1940.jpg Alice Babs, circa 1940 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Hildur Alice Nilson |
| Born | 26 January 1924 Västervik, Sweden |
| Died | 11 February 2014 (aged 90) |
| Genres | jazz schlager |
| Occupation(s) | singer |
| Years active | 1939-2014 |
Alice Babs (born Hildur Alice Nilsson; 26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014) was a Swedish singer and actress from Kalmar, Sweden. While she worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. She was best known internationally as a jazz singer, and for being Swedens first entrant in Eurovision singing the song Lilla stjärna in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958.
Babs died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on 11 February 2014. She was 90.[1][2]
References[change]
- ↑ "Swedish singer Alice Babs dies aged 90", The Local (Sweden), 11 February 2014
- ↑ Alice Babs död, Dagens Nyheter 11 February 2014 (in Swedish)
Other websites[change]
File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Babs on IMDb
- Jazzbrat: Alice Babs Archived 2005-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
