Historical FigureFemale
Alice Babs
1924 – 2014
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryHildur Alice Nilson, 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
January 26, 1924
Kalmar cathedral parish
Date of death
February 11, 2014
Stockholm
Citizenship
Sweden
Occupations & fields
singeractorjazz musicianfilm actorrecording artistmusician
Awards & honours
Illis quorumPro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland
Notable works
Swing it, magistern!
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