Swedish singers and bands. Sweden is a country of musical talents

Surprisingly, it is this Scandinavian country that is at least some kind of intelligible competition to English and American performers in the field of popular music. The Swedish pop phenomenon began with the legendary ABBA group back in the 70s. And since then, musicians of subsequent generations have tried not to lower the high bar set by this wonderful team.

What Swedish bands existed in the 90s?

In the 80s, Sweden gave music lovers a team called Secret Service, which became especially beloved in the Old World, as well as Roxette and Europe ensembles that thundered all over the world and blew up the charts on both sides of the ocean. Well, the 90s cannot be imagined without fervent and beautiful songs from Ace of Base, Army Of Lovers, Vacuum, The Cardigans, Yaki-Da. Swedish bands 90s brought their own unique touch to the general background of pop sound at the end of the 20th century, became world stars.

In Russia, the "pop-musical" Swedes of the 90s enjoy special attention, they are spoken of with warmth and genuine admiration. It is enough to watch the concerts under the label "Legends of Retro FM" to be convinced of the truth of these words. And although many of the above-mentioned bands have already broken up or practically do not function by now, for individual performances they are happy to gather and give heat. And I would like to hope that this is done not only in order to “cut down money in an easy way”, but also to once again please the fans and plunge into the atmosphere of those performances that they managed to arrange 15-20 years ago.

Most of the Swedish pop stars who appeared in the 90s, one way or another, determine the vector of development of the Scandinavian and pan-European stage to this day. For example, Alexander Bard, the founder of Army Of Lovers and Vacuum, is still playing music and producing young performers much more successfully than his current creative endeavors. I would like to believe that thanks to his efforts and the efforts of others musical heroes past, Sweden will be generous with talented performers and in the first part of the new era.

We have collected the most famous and popular Swedish artists and bands of the 90s in one list and this is what came of it ( Group - Best Album - Best Song):

1. ABBA-Super Trooper- Lay all your love on me
2. The Knife - Silent Shout - Heartbeats
3. Robyn- Body Talk Pt. 1 - Dancing on my own
4. Ace of Base-The sign- The sign
5. The Radio Dept.- Clinging to a Scheme - Keen on Boys
6. Fever Ray- Fever Ray - Now's the Only time i know
7. Peter Bjorn & John- Writer's Block - Amsterdam
8. The Sounds-Crossing the Rubicon- No One Sleeps when I'm Awake
9. The Cardigans- Dying to Say this to you - lovefool
10. Roxette- Look Sharp! - must have been love

Sasha Romanova, editor-in-chief of kyky, promised not to write about Eurovision at an open meeting. we keep our word, especially since the final of the competition was not particularly interesting, and the victory of the Swede Mons Selmerlöv was long ago predicted by bookmakers. Swedish music is beautiful even without any Eurovision, which we invite you to see immediately.

Ace of Base

These simple guys and girls from Gothenburg have sold 30 million copies of their albums worldwide. How many pirated records in the 1990s spread across the expanses former USSR- no one will ever count, but at least - the same amount more. Under "All What She Wants" with a pensive look, they moved the body in discos, under "Happy Nation" they shed a lone tear. And these, by the way, are songs from the debut album of the Swedes! Ace of Base is practically a family business: the band was created by Ulf Ekberg and Jonas Berggren, who invited his sisters Lynn and Jenny to join the band. It was the girls who became the weak links: first one left, then the second. But "Buddha" and "Joker" do not lose heart: they took two new vocalists to help themselves and are still performing.

Opeth

Since 1995, when Opeth released their debut album, they remain one of the most inventive bands in metal music. The Swedes took everything that was best invented in death, black and doom metal, mixed it in precise proportions, embellished it with complex structures, beautiful melodies and strong lyrics. IN last decade Opeth's music has become softer (it seems that sooner or later this happens to all metalheads), but it has not become either simpler or more boring. And most importantly, it has not lost its atmosphere: the current Dream Theater, in comparison with Opeth, seems like soulless techies.

Army of Lovers

Clowning and shocking, conflicts with the authorities and clips banned on MTV. Musical God measured Army of Lovers only eight years, during which they managed to thunder all over the world. And all because they were serious people, although they made dance music. Songs in English, French and Hebrew, biblical motifs, mixed with erotica - it was not so easy to come up with all this. But Alexander Bard succeeded. After the dissolution of the group, the brain of Army of Lovers wrote books, conducted sociological research, and studied the Barodov song in Vacuum group. AoL's calling card was "Sexual Revolution", but other hits are not forgotten. For example, "Crucified" and "Israelism" sound in the program "What? Where? When?". Here it is, the recognition of brain merit!

The Hives

The Swedish quintet has existed since 1989, but only became popular in the 2000s, in the wake of the garage rock and roll craze. The Hives play real rock and roll - crazy, stylish and arrogant. Their first international compilation was called "Your New Favorite Band" and damn it! - the name justified itself. Among other things, The Hives is one of the best live bands on the planet: each of their concerts is like a theatrical performance, during which the band plays with the audience, disturbs them and even puts them in awkward situations. An invariable concert trick of the Swedes is to instantly stop in the middle of a song and freeze in complete silence in ridiculous poses for a few minutes.

Esbjorn Svensson Trio

Piano jazz trio equally inspired by classical Hungarian composer Béla Bartók and Radiohead. EST's music is modern, but not abstruse or complex (unlike the vast majority contemporary jazz), so the trio's creativity is quite suitable for beginners who want to start their own journey through the endless jazz world. Esbjörn Svensson Trio were welcome guests at the largest jazz festivals, because they always played with a return, with a pull, were live, real; they received awards in packs, their music over the years became more and more mature and more beautiful, and sales - more and more voluminous. Alas, in 2008 this beautiful story was cut short: pianist Esbjørn Svensson died while deep-sea diving.

Cardigans

In terms of difficulty in pronunciation, the name of the city of Jönköping can compete with Icelandic volcanoes. Honestly, we don’t know anything about this city, except that in 1992 people with similar typically Swedish surnames - Peter Svensson and Magnus Sveningsson - created Cardigans there. Two years later, the group is already on tour in Europe, after four they record a platinum album, and after six they present their main hits - “Erase And Rewind” and “My Favorite Game”. By the way, the Cardigans are the only ones from our list who reached Belarus with the same squad that achieved fame - back in the summer of 2006, at the Estrella Star Show at the Minsk-1 airport.

Roxette

Friends advised Marie Fredriksson not to sing with Per Gessle - this, they say, would harm her solo career. Good thing she didn't listen to them! The duo quickly became popular in Sweden, but from the very beginning they wanted to conquer the world. An accident helped: an American student who had been in Sweden on an exchange brought a Roxette disc to the radio in his native Minneapolis. Listeners all the time asked to repeat the song "The Look", it soon spread throughout the country, and then - lo and behold! Became #1 in the US. Now the Swedish newspapers call Per the King of Pop, and the Roxette members are still in shape: they release solo albums and, no, no, and they will gather a full house at Wembley Stadium.

Katatonia

At the dawn of the 90s, the Swedes, along with three bands from England (Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride), stood at the origins of death / doom-metal - a style of slow and terribly depressing heavy music, from which then gothic-metal "hatched". Katatonia broke up three years after its creation, but in 1996 returned with the most powerful disc "Brave Murder Day" - and no longer disappeared from the radar. Over time, growling vocals were replaced by melodic ones, the music became lighter and softer, but the depressive mood was preserved in full: even emo crybabies in the second half of the 2000s looked quite cheerful compared to Katatonia.

The Knife

Subtle pop music with synths from the 80s and the sexy vocals of the Swedish diva Karin Dreyer Andersson. Over the 15 years of its existence, The Knife duet has collected almost all the Swedish music awards - but the band members themselves did not care about this, and they did not appear at the award ceremony. Music Knife is frostbitten in the Scandinavian way, and this is its special beauty. The duo announced their split last year, but Karin is sure to continue solo career: her debut album under the pseudonym Fever Ray became no less successful than the recordings of The Knife.

ABBA

Where would it be without them. ABBA is the main Swedish band of all time, and the song Waterloo - what can you do - the winner of Eurovision back in 1974. Forty years have passed, the world has changed beyond recognition, but people need the joy, lightness, naivety and carelessness of ABBA just as they did then. As always. And even sadness in the songs of the Swedish quartet is light, like nowhere else. In a word, an endless holiday, supported by an impressive figure of 350 million albums sold. By the mid-1980s, the members of ABBA had fallen out. And they appeared together only at the premiere of the film dedicated to them "Mamma Mia" in 2008. When you are in Stockholm, be sure to visit the ABBA Museum. Just do not forget to sign up on the site beforehand, otherwise they will not be allowed inside.

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Any authoritative guide should be built on the principle "from A to Z" and strive for global coverage - all the most interesting, curious, important and mandatory for enlightening completely different audiences. In the context of such a super-task, the only feature that makes it possible to somehow distinguish countless directories from each other is individually, or rather, uniquely compiled routes that form the basis of each of them. Everything else, in fact, will be a collection of homogeneous actual material almost encyclopedic.

This guide does not purport to be a reference book, encyclopedia or multimedia catalogue. This is a guide to literally.

Released in early April, the Swedish band's album - one of the most anticipated releases of the year - quite predictably gave rise to a wave of enthusiastic reviews and thoughtfully subjective analytical articles, the authors of which try to interpret the phenomenon of the creativity of the Dreyer brother and sister from a wide variety of points of view, creating this phenomenon themselves along the way. "Kid A" tenths, an anthem to Africa or a final moratorium on genre, stylistic and national stereotypes in music - an attempt to figure out what is "Shaking the Habitual" became both an incentive for the creation of this guide (that is, the beginning) and its ultimate goal. It is a generally accepted fact that the UK is a world center, conceptual and commercial, in terms of creating and promoting musical tastes, trends and brands. In the Scandinavian space, such a center is, of course, Sweden - and the rest of the countries of the region, while remaining independent and self-sufficient in terms of cultural life, adjoin it, recreating the global paradigm - the very one that gave birth to "Kid A" in 2000 and the next decade, one way or another, adjusted to its creation. It is much easier to understand “Shaking the Habitual” and the modern musical paradigm separately, as well as how dependent and dependent on each other, and it is much easier to do this by taking Scandinavia as a model as a full-fledged cut from that very global paradigm.

The cut, I must say, is also far from small, and at first the most convenient and simple principle of organizing the material really seems to be “from A to Z” - except that you would have to puzzle over how to divide the letter A into a dozen performers, and agree that Yaki -da is perfect option for the letter "I". But this kind of “bumping up” is just right for the traditional guides that I talked about at the beginning, and does not contribute in any way to plotting a course in the endless ocean of everything. musical creativity, which was born in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland in half a century so that the lens has music that is of interest in every sense - from technical to aesthetic, that is, music for the heart, mind and soul - together and separately , if you like, and certainly does not answer the question - what is "Shaking the Habitual" for the current music industry - an epitaph, an epigram or an epigraph?

Thus, there will be only one route in this guide, and the course we should follow does not pretend to embrace the immensity. That's why this is a guidebook in the "literal sense". This, however, does not mean that there will be no branches and turns with signs on the way, for those curious who prefer to choose their own way.

From a symbolic fork, our journey will begin.

90% of the pop stars you would see on an A to Z list would be Swedish by nationality. What is not a reason for national pride? However, pop music, no matter how high-quality it may be, has much more to do with GDP (Sweden is the world's third largest exporter of hits) than with progress in the arts and food for thought.

Therefore, the best way out in this situation would be to compile a separate list - just the same "from A to Z" - where lengthy comments and idle reasoning will not be needed, despite the variety of styles, trends and times. The beauty of pop music lies in its simplicity, the ability to speak for itself on those rare occasions when you need to speak at all, and not just listen.

Ultimately, the format of all the music presented in this list can be defined by the word "Eurovision" (this does not mean that all of its participants were participants in the competition, but the audiences for all these musicians are approximately identical). Once upon a time, by the way, Eurovision was quite positive evaluative word. As a matter of fact, with the victory on it in 1974, the worldwide fame and the popularity of the ABBA group, and almost all Scandinavian countries became the winners of this competition. The last victory at the moment was, again, Sweden, whose representative is the singer Loreen played in 2012 with the most votes with the song Euphoria. The only exception was Iceland - and it is rather difficult to say whether this is now a reason for joy or for sadness.

“The Eurovision list will be the first kind of indicator for those who are no less (or even more) interested in this direction than the one we have yet to follow.

"Eurovision List"

A		ABBA Sweden, 1972-1982
		Ace of Base Sweden, 1990-…
		Alcazar Sweden, 1998-2011 One sentence: This Is The World We Live In
		Alphabeat Denmark, 2004-…
		Andreas Johnson Sweden, 1997-…
		Aqua Denmark, 1989-…
		Arash Sweden, 2003-…
		Army of Lovers Sweden, 1987-…
B		Bosson Sweden, from the cradle (1976) to the present day One Chorus: One in a Million
D		Danny Saucedo Sweden, 2002-…
		Dr. Alban Sweden, 1990-…
E		Eagle Eye Cherry Sweden, 1997-…
		Emilia Sweden, 1998-…
		E type Sweden, 1991-… In five words: Set the World on fire
		Europe Sweden, 1979-…
L		Loreen Sweden, 2004-…
M		Medina Denmark, 2006-… In two or three words: You and I
R		rednex Sweden, 1994-… In two hyphenated words: Cotton-Eye Joe
S		Secret service Sweden, 1979-… In four words: Flash in the Night
		September Sweden, 2003-…
		Sunrise Avenue Finland, 2002-… Single single: Fairytale Gone Bad
V		Vacuum Sweden, 1996-…
		Velvet Sweden, 2005-…
W		Wannadies (The) Sweden, 1988-2009 In two chords: You and Me Song
Y		Yaki Da Sweden, 1994-2000

The picture, as you can see, is quite variegated - half of the performers are known as the authors of one song, and we encounter their work almost daily thanks to nasty ringtones, often not suspecting ourselves to whom we owe happiness to hear these squeaky sounds; the other half raises the predictable question: “Are they still alive?”. We can safely recommend listening to collections such as "Disco 70-80" or "Romantic Collection", which are musical anthologies for this section, to all those interested.

However, one important conclusion from the first acquaintance can also be drawn: all the pop musicians of the Scandinavian countries who have achieved popularity did not do it in last turn by appealing to an English-speaking audience. Simply put, they write songs and sing in English. Today, this is, in general, a prerequisite for gaining world fame, and in addition to pop artists, musicians also resort to the universal international language, which will be discussed later. Language thus weaves creativity into a universal supranational context that does not appeal to or depend on those political and geographical coordinates to which it is assigned (i.e. England, USA, Australia, etc.). In this supra- and extra-national space, agents of the world's mass media of a musical profile and record labels ply, trying to notice everything interesting, important and promising (including in commercial terms) before others, and it doesn’t matter what country the next ones come from. finds" and "favorites". Perhaps, as one of the criteria by which the experts of these resources select this or that song, single, record for review (and promotion), is the ability of the authors to affect the thoughts and feelings of the audience in general, bypassing words, and even the fact that words are still there are, and they are understandable to almost everyone the globe, greatly simplifies the matter. That is, it’s not enough to sing in English to get into the “NME recommends” section, you either need to feel the quality standards set by the time and meet them, or set your own, and in such a way that other musicians and critics are equal to them. The only criterion applicable to pop music is its accessibility and ease. high bars, set by the "censors", are rarely of interest to popular idols and idols, and therefore often their albums can get into the TOP-5 Billboard, but not in the reviews section of an influential music magazine. What is there to parse? But to completely turn away or ignore the most massive segment of the music industry just because you can cook or sing in the shower to such music is not entirely reasonable.

Firstly, it is pop music that most accurately reflects tastes, and what was popular even half a century ago still remains an instrument of influence, tested and preserved by history. In addition, today any musician who is well acquainted with the virtual studio can, without hiding, turn to the experience of his predecessors and reproduce their achievements, in the form of quotes from samples, for example. In most cases, critics will count this as a plus for him, and the “vintage sound” will even distinguish him from the pop environment to which the creators so clearly belonged. original sound. This aesthetic characterizes the work of the "mysterious" Swedish duo Sally Shapiro, consisting of a producer and an ephemeral vocalist, who miraculously remained anonymous for several years. Taking the classic disco as a basis, this couple, in fact, personified it, endowing it with a character - a fragile, tender and sensitive girl Sally, the "disco princess". Another Swedish duo with a telling name - Icon Pop- rethought the trends of eurodance and electro-pop music of the nineties. Finding out the identity of both members of the group in this case, if desired, will not be difficult - as well as their sources of inspiration already at the first listening. And “lightweight” in zero soul and r'n'b motives are summed up today by everyone who is too lazy, and one of the most notable newcomers, who, quite possibly, will have to enter the first echelon of world pop stars in the near future, can be called a young Danish singer with a pseudonym cursed by all search engines - MO.

Secondly, the popular music environment is heterogeneous, and the styles and trends existing in it do not exist in isolation. In cross spaces, where they mix with each other, intentionally or accidentally, the most curious experiments take place and works that are sometimes not qualified only by the term “pop” are born. For such cases, a universal term was invented "indie", emphasizing not independence from labels, producers and the commercial component, but the freedom to handle classic labels and tags, which previously could easily and easily define styles and trends. That is, it is independence from any framework - imagine, even in pop music this is possible. indie-pop sounds proud! The best of that proof - , a 27-year-old singer, of course, of Swedish origin (starting from here, nationality will be indicated only in cases where it is, of course, not Swedish). Miss Lee's success is largely due to her talent as a songwriter, and not just as a producer who found the most suitable for wonderful songs sung by a wonderful voice. That is, the formula that allows an artist to classify himself and his work with the term "indie" provides for a somewhat different symbiosis of the artist's pronounced individuality and the loyalty of those people whose names are usually written on the back of the cover in letters so small that their size becomes directly proportional to the degree of their participation in shaping the final sound of the record and the stage image of its direct performer. In the case of Lykke Lee, her stage persona is her own merit, and the merit of the producers is that they allowed him to come to the fore, keeping him the way he is - unlike anyone else.

There is another term used in relation to popular artists in Sweden, which has acquired a universal character - swedish pop. This, of course, is the designation of the entire unimaginably wide stratum of musicians, so to speak, “in fact”, without unnecessary conclusions about them. But behind the same concept, in addition to the literal, the “archetypal” content was also fixed: this is a look at the mainstream through a prism shimmering with all colors and tones, the focus of which is mainly on a slender vocalist of the Nordic type with a voice that is not unreasonably customary to describe with the help of abstract, abstract and especially lofty epithets. So, besides Lykke Lee, we can name a lot of indie-swedish-pop projects with a girl in focus, whose stage image will differ from pop clones in a subtle, but very valuable and pleasant feature. This — Maria Apetri is a 28-year-old Danish woman with an undisguised love for Eastern European folk, which, being the rhythmic basis of almost all songs, sounds so that it is impossible not to fall in love with Eastern European folk (in her interpretation). This Annie— Annie Bergestrand — Norwegian singer and a DJ songwriter (yes, it happens) with a "unique take on electro-pop", which may sound skeptical until her album Annimal does not get into the player's playlist, and the whole surrounding space does not become an endless dance floor. This oh land— Nanna Fabritius is another, hmm, 28-year-old Danish person, with a seemingly endless range of musical tastes and interests, because starting with a little more intricate experiments with electronics than are usually allowed for pop musicians (something close, for example, the Lamb group), later she "settled down" and recorded a more "live" and more soulful (and indeed in every sense more) record, where Nanna did some simple-sounding, but complexly composed manipulations with soul, due to which made the articles devoted to this style somehow meaningless at once. And whatever style is in favor of Oh Land during the next burst of inspiration, her next album will make you add a few more paragraphs to the article about it - that's a fact. Followed by Elliphant— Ellinor Olofsdotter, and Amanda May, representing a very young generation, and personifying new trends in hip-hop and pop-rock, respectively. I must say, these faces are very memorable, and comparing them with M.I.A. and Kate Nash (respectively) do not always sound complimentary only towards debutantes.

Thirdly, no one denies the fact that a pop artist can be a unique musician and within the once and for all chosen direction, expanding its boundaries only with his own charm, charisma, talent, and in the end still stand apart. Such a figure in common list you can’t put it - on the contrary, you can often even see similar lists dedicated to each star individually, for example, Roxette“from young to old” (it is absolutely impossible to imagine an age category that is not familiar with the songs of the duet Marie Fredriksson - Per Gessle - this applies even to infants) or A-Ha“from beginning to end” (and, alas, it came - the Norwegian group with almost twenty years of history officially broke up in 2010).

On the main trends of pop music, mindful of the purpose of the journey, one could finish - if you extract all the drone sketches of various lengths from Shaking the Habitual, they would be enough for a full-fledged EP, and the remaining songs, trimmed according to the radio edit model, together they would have produced a high-quality, but quite ordinary pop album, with a slightly more gloomy sound than “what the doctor ordered”. Yes, that's the whole charm of this record in its integrity, indivisibility and polyphonic harmony - you don't want to throw it away, cut it, or perform other manipulations on it at all. Maybe that's why she she became a phenomenon. To agree with this statement, however, does not mean to understand the nature of the phenomenon itself. But in order to understand why it "shakes the familiar", you have to go all the way to the end.

And he has just begun. All the most interesting is yet to come.

Sweden won its place in the world musical hierarchy back in the seventies, when the legendary Swedish quartet ABBA thundered all over the world, captivating people on both sides of the ocean with their creativity. Since then, the country has tried not to drop that bar in the list of the best musical groups, and constantly pleased us with new and new stars.

Features of Swedish music

When you listen to the music of Sweden for the first time, you get the impression that you hear the sounds of your soul, as if someone invisible had just overheard it and quickly recorded it. This is precisely the peculiarity of the musical performance of Swedish performers - listening to them, it seems that you are listening to yourself.
And with the advent of the 90s, the Swedes not only did not give up their positions won by the legendary quartet, but were able to achieve even greater popularity. On billboard lists, Swedish bands from the 1990s consistently topped the charts. So, according to extras, just at that time, the receipts of royalties to Swedish artists for copyrights on their songs were almost three times higher than those of the English and American artists. And in the top ten greatest hits it was not uncommon to see a good half of the Swedish bands.
When a survey was conducted among fans of the work of popular Swedish artists in order to find out what, in their opinion, is the reason for such an amazing popularity of the hits of these artists, no one could give an intelligible explanation for this phenomenon. But many have made the assumption that everything is due to the fact that this country has a harsh climate, and the Swedes spend a lot of time at home.

Why are Swedish bands so popular?

Of course, this is a very naive assumption. But Swedish researcher Ole Johansonn managed to come up with his own theory, pointing to the reasons for such popularity of Swedish pop music.

1. Swedes love role models. And the main such example was the ABBA group, which was able to find what makes people fall in love with their music. It's a light tune nice voices that dominate the music, simple baby rhymes that are easy to remember, frequently repeated key phrases of the song.
2. The Swedes did not follow the principle of other countries and invite foreign musicians, composers, and arrangers to work. They decided to grow the best specialists in their country, and this takes years. That is why after "Abba" for more than a decade, Swedish groups did not reach such heights.
3. Another reason is excellent knowledge of English. It is he who is ideal for the popularity of songs. Although, as they say, there are exceptions to every rule. For example, in the lyrics of Roxette and The Cardigans, a native speaker will easily notice many inaccuracies, but this did not make their songs less popular.
4. The Swedish government has always supported the development of show business. Most children attend music schools, studios and clubs, which are subsidized by the country's budget.

Popular Swedish bands from the 90s

The 90s were a high point for the Swedish pop scene. It was at this time that many groups appeared that were able to achieve huge popularity all over the world, and their songs became recognizable and loved by millions.

Ace of Base

The magnificent quartet, which was created on the principle of "Abba", was able to achieve worldwide recognition from the very first album "Happy Nation", which became a bestseller in the 90s. Three songs of this album at once became indisputable hits, for a long time they took first place in the top of the best songs.
The band's first name was "Mr Ace". Still unknown, the artists sent a cassette recording of their song "All That She Wants" famous producer, and the cassette got stuck in his radio. Because of this, the producer had to listen to this record for several days, after which he became the producer of the group. Surprisingly, it was this song that helped them soar to the top of fame.

Roxette

The Swedish duo became popular back in the eighties. Once they tried to record not in their homeland, but in England, hoping for a new interesting sound, however, this experiment did not bring the results that the guys had hoped for. And the real success came to them in the early 90s, when they returned to work in Sweden again.
The name of the group Roxette came from the name of one of the songs of the group Dr Feelgood, which Per and Marie loved very much.

E type

Before the band started tearing up the dance floors of the world in the 90s, Martin Erickson, the band's lead singer, had already experienced both popularity and the pain of failure. But he never gave up, and once infected dance rhythms, did not stop experimenting and looking for new sounds. As a result, when he teamed up with Nana Hedin, their album brought them real fame.

Dr Alban

The black singer, whose songs were played on all dance floors and discos in the nineties, never imagined that he would become famous artist. His dream since childhood was the profession of a doctor. That is why he even calls himself a doctor on stage.
He did not have enough money when he studied to be a dentist, so in free time Alban worked as a DJ. He did not leave his passion when he became a doctor, then he was noticed by a Swedish producer. The very first album of the singer was sold in a million copies, which determined his entire future fate.

The Cardigans

The group worked in different styles rock and indie pop. They were constantly looking for something new, it seemed that the musicians never repeat themselves. But this is what constantly attracted more and more new fans to them.

Vacuum

The band members not only sang songs own composition, but also wrote music for many famous artists. They have own studio where they worked. The band's original name was Vacuum Cleaner, but they later decided to shorten the name to Vacuum because they thought it sounded better that way.

Army of Lovers

The group was known for their revealing costumes and controversial music videos. Some clips were banned from being shown on TV. If the first album was gradually released in different countries, the second one turned out to be a real breakthrough in the work of Army of Lovers. Three songs at once "Crucified", "Obsession" and "Ride The Bullet" became real hits and brought great popularity to the artists.

Yaki Da

A duet in which two girls sang with beautiful voices, unfortunately, many call a group of one song, but this is not so. "I saw you dancing" made the duet really popular. But the second album was no longer such a success and was released in a very small circulation. It is believed that the name of the group comes from the toast, which was raised by the ancient Gauls, and meant "for health".

Midi Maxi & Efti

This was probably the most popular group throughout the former Soviet Union. Among the youth of that time there were no those who would not listen to the cassettes with their songs to the holes. And it is impossible to find a person who still does not remember their famous song "Bad Bad Boys".

Basic Element

Initially, the project was conceived as a quartet, but even before the release of the first album, one of the girls left the group. So a trio was formed, which became popular even before the release of the first album, thanks to the released singles. When the album was released, it turned out that the Basic Element group had already firmly secured the status of one of the best Eurodance groups.

As you can see popular music The 90s is closely connected with the work of many Swedish bands. Some of them then ended their existence, while others continue to delight us with their creativity today. But each of them left a bright mark in musical life those years.