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Alice Babs
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Swedish singer and actor (1924-2014)
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- 1
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- Född till musik
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Acting · 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…
Known for
- När molnen skingras — Self2016
- Alice Babs - Swing It! — Herself2007
- Swing it Alice! — Self2004
- Så ska det låta — Self1997
- Stjärnbilder — (archive footage)1995
- Minns ni? — (archive footage)1993
- Det hopfällbara slottet — Mother1968
- Swinging at the Castle — Inga "Trollet" Larsson1959
- Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel — herself1959
- Musik ombord — Ulla Wickström1958
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 2014
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 31,742
- Total plays
- 229,261
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Alice Babs (born Hildur Alice Nilsson; 26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014) was a 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 Sweden's first entrant in Eurovision singing in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. After making her breakthrough in Swing it magistern (Swing It, Teacher!) (1940), she appeared in more than a dozen Swedish language films.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,393x
- 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,155x
- Mutation in the α-Synuclein Gene Identified in Families with Parkinson's Disease
· 1997 · cited 7,076x
- Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
· 2009 · cited 6,948x
- Standardized Myocardial Segmentation and Nomenclature for Tomographic Imaging of the Heart
· 2002 · cited 5,396x
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Key facts
- Born
- Hildur Alice Nilson , ( 1924-01-26 ) 26 January 1924, Kalmar , Sweden
- Died
- 11 February 2014 (2014-02-11) (aged 90), Stockholm , Sweden
- Genres
- Jazz schlager
- Occupations
- Singer, actress
- Years active
- 1939–2004
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- date of death
- 2014-02-11
- Commons category
- Alice Babs
- date of birth
- 1924-01-26
- birth name
- Hildur Alice Nilson
- described at URL
- forum.genealogi.se/index.php?topic=76511.0
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- married name
- Hildur Alice Babs Sjöblom
- pseudonym
- Alice Babs
- name in native language
- Hildur Alice Babs Nilson
- number of viewers/listeners
- 971374
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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.
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