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Alice Babs

1924 - 2014

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Babs is the 675th most popular singer (down from 443rd in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 295th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swedish Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Alice Babs ranks 675 out of 4,381. Before her are Philipp Kirkorov, Jennifer Rush, Verka Serduchka, Samira Said, Vice Vukov, and RM. After her are Georg Ots, Arash, Magda Olivero, Julian Lennon, Teresa Carreño, and Richard Cheese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alice Babs ranks 184. Before her are Ruth Teitelbaum, Renia Spiegel, Claude Lefort, Ján Chryzostom Korec, José Donoso, and S. N. Goenka. After her are Gene Deitch, Alexander Matrosov, Guillermo Rodríguez, Aloísio Lorscheider, Ken Tyrrell, and Olivier Gendebien. Among people deceased in 2014, Alice Babs ranks 168. Before her are Bert Williams, Carmelo Simeone, Ramón José Velásquez, Bobby Collins, Ante Žanetić, and On Kawara. After her are Frans Brüggen, Magda Olivero, Helena Rakoczy, Alexander Imich, Lorna Wing, and Juan Gelman.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alice Babs ranks 420 out of 1,879. Before her are Mikael Persbrandt (1963), Jonas Jonasson (1961), Lars Norén (1944), Ralf Edström (1952), Ola Ullsten (1931), and Kennet Andersson (1967). After her are Johan Tobias Sergel (1740), Peter Artedi (1705), Kalle Svensson (1925), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), and Åke Seyffarth (1919).

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Among SINGERS In Sweden

Among singers born in Sweden, Alice Babs ranks 20. Before her are Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), Evert Taube (1890), Lill-Babs (1938), Malena Ernman (1970), Monica Zetterlund (1937), and Christina Nilsson (1843). After her are Carola Häggkvist (1966), Ingvar Wixell (1931), Tommy Körberg (1948), E-Type (1965), Lena Philipsson (1966), and Björn Skifs (1947).

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