Siw Malmkvist

Film & TV

Landskrona, Malmöhus län, Sweden [now Skåne län, Sweden]

Swedish singer who has been popular in Scandinavia and West Germany. She had a number one hit in West Germany in 1964 with "Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht" (English: "Lovesickness Is Not Worthwhile"), and on 18 July 1964 she became the first Swede to have a hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, when "Sole Sole Sole", a duet with Italian singer Umberto Marcato, entered the chart, peaking at #58.

Known for

• My life as Siw — Self2025
• Siw — Siw Malmkvist – Self2025
• Mellons makt — Self (archive footage)2024
• Tabitas Tattoo änd cär — Maj-Britt2024
• E-Type: The way I wanna live — Self (archive footage)2023
• Drag Race Sweden — Self - Guest Judge2023
• Det svenska popundret — Self2019
• Soffan — Self2019
• Hälsningar Från — Self2018
• Eva - en lyckost — Self2017

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

SE

Active from

1936-12-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

35,954

Total plays

294,649

Siw Malmkvist, born December 31, 1936 in Landskrona, Sweden, is a popular Swedish singer famous in Scandinavia and Germany. She competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen many times, latest in 2004 together with Towa Carson and Ann-Louise Hanson, singing the song C'est la vie, which finished 10th. She represented Sweden at the international Eurovision Song Contest 1960 with Alla andra får varann and the former West Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, with the song Primaballerina. <a href=

via Last.fm · Siw Malmkvist

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Sweden

Place of birth

Landskrona

Spouse

Fredrik Ohlsson

Occupation

voice actor

Languages spoken

Swedish

Participant in

Eurovision Song Contest 1960

Genre

schlager music

Instrument

voice

Official website

www.siw-malmkvist.de

Image

Siw Malmkvist 2011-04-26 001.jpg

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