Jenny Silver
Encyclopedia
Career
Jenny Silver started her career in the dance bandDansband
Dansband is a Swedish term for a band that plays dansbandsmusik . Dansbandsmusik is often danced to in pairs. Jitterbug and foxtrot music are often included in this category. The music is primarily inspired by swing, schlager, country, jazz, and rock...
Candela which was signed to Bert Karlsson
Bert Karlsson
Bert Willis Karlsson is a Swedish record company manager, entrepreneur, former politician and front figure of the New Democracy party....
s label Mariann Grammofon from 1991 to 1997. Candela made it big in 1994 with a string of hit songs that also reached the Svensktoppen-list. Silver (then Öhlund) was named the queen of danceband and was also by media named as the next Lotta Engberg
Lotta Engberg
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Silver has also sung in the rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band Holden which was signed to Dead Frog records and she has also been in collaborations with Totta Näslund. Released her solo album Lyckling in 1997 at Andersson Records, she has toured as duet partner with actor Thorsten Flinck
Thorsten Flinck
Thorsten Flinck, born April 17, 1961 in Solna, is a Swedish actor, director, and musician. He is known for mostly playing psychopaths and villains, and also for his outrageous personality both on stage and in real life...
and she also landed the leading role in the Swedish version of the musical Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
. In 2004 she recorded a cover of the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
classic song God Save the Queen
God Save the Queen
"God Save the Queen" is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms and British Crown Dependencies. The words of the song, like its title, are adapted to the gender of the current monarch, with "King" replacing "Queen", "he" replacing "she", and so forth, when a king reigns...
on a compilation album called Rendezvous.
In May 2007, Ett äventyr was released and it was a duet with Emrik Karlsson from the funkcollective Stonefunkers from Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
. Silver also joined the band Debbies Wife a so called "allstar-constellation consisting of Jenny Silver, Peppe Carlsson (song), Nikke Ström
Nikke Ström
Nikke Ström is a Swedish rock musician, mostly known as the bass player in Nationalteatern.Ström was born and grew up in Karlskoga playing in different bands. In the beginning of 1970 he studied philosophy at Stockholm University...
, Fabian Kallerdahl, Holger Berg, Flamman
Flamman
Flamman is a Swedish socialist newspaper. It was founded in 1906 by the workers in the northern mine fields, and the paper was originally named Norrskensflamman , before a change of name in 1998...
, Micke Edlund, Johan Håkansson, guest guitarist Bengan Blomgren. They were produced by Hans Olsson
Hans Olsson
Hans Olsson is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. He has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006.- External links :*...
(Universal Poplab
Universal Poplab
Universal Poplab is a Swedish synthpop band founded in January 2002 by vocalist Christer Lundberg and producer Paul Lachenardière. The band's two members have very different backgrounds: Christer is an old-school synthpop fan, influenced by acts like Soft Cell and Yazoo, Paul is a classically...
, Timo Räisänen
Timo Räisänen
Timo Räisänen is a Anglo-Indian Swede Indie pop musician, born in Gothenburg on 25 July 1979. He was previously part of Håkan Hellström's band, and has played in the band Her Majesty. In 2004 he started his own career....
) and Peppe Carlsson. Silver has also been seen in other musical roles such as Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably...
which was played at the Slagthuset in Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
during 2007 she was joined on stage by Tommy Körberg
Tommy Körberg
Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. In 1969, he won Swedish Recording Industry Award Grammis in a category Best Debut Performance. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role in the Benny Andersson–Björn Ulvaeus–Tim Rice musical Chess...
. And during 2008 she was also seen as the rockwitch Antonia in the Gothenburg opera play Grymt. On January 22, 2010 Jenny Silver participated in the SVT television show På Spåret where she sang the Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
song Sweet Caroline
Sweet Caroline
"Sweet Caroline" is a pop song written and performed by Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16, 1969, as a single. It was later released on December 9, 1972 as a part of Diamond's Hot August Night album. There are three distinct mixes of this song...
and El Cóndor Pasa
El Cóndor Pasa (song)
El Cóndor Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes....
by Simon & Garfunkel.
On February 6, 2010 Jenny Silver participated in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2010
Melodifestivalen 2010
Melodifestivalen 2010 was a Swedish song contest held between February and March 2010. It was the selection for the 50th song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and was the 49th edition of Melodifestivalen...
at the Fjällräven Center in Örnsköldsvik
Örnsköldsvik
Örnsköldsvik is a locality and the seat of Örnsköldsvik Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 28,617 inhabitants in 2005.Its natural harbour and archipelago is in the Gulf of Bothnia and the northern boundaries of the High Coast area. It is well known as an exporter of paper products...
with her entry "A Place to Stay". However her entry only managed eight and last place in the semifinal. However, her entry was downloaded so much that she placed 12th at the Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....
in the weeks after her performance.
During 2011 she guest starred on the Lustans Lakejer
Lustans Lakejer
Lustans Lakejer is a Swedish New Wave group formed in 1978, subsequently led by singer-songwriter Johan Kinde who has been the only permanent member throughout their career...
album Elixir, where she along with Johan Kinde sang the duet Eld & Vatten.
And on February 5, 2011 she once again participated in Melodifestivalen 2011
in Luleå
Luleå
- Transportation :Local buses are run by .A passenger train service is available from Luleå Centralstation on Sweden's national SJ railway service northbound to Narvik on the Norwegian coast, or southbound to Stockholm. See Rail transport in Sweden....
with her entry Something in Your Eyes. This time she was more lucky as the song made it to the second chance round where she in the end lost to Love Generation
Love Generation (group)
Not To Be Confused With The Love GenerationLove Generation is an all female pop group from Sweden formed in 2010.The people behind the group is Moroccan hit producer RedOne A&R Jonas Johnson and Peter Swartling, label Legend Music Group and Universal Music.-2010:Through an audition with over 500...
's entry Dance Alone.
Album
- Mitt julkort - 1994 (Jenny Öhlund)
- Lycklig - 1997
- Holden - 2003
- Remote Control - 2007 (Manora Records)
As guest
- Duetterna - 2001 (Totta NäslundTotta NäslundErik Torsten "Totta" Näslund was a Swedish rock and blues musician, with leftist political views.- Biography :...
) - Tro hopp och kärlek - 2002 (Åsa JinderÅsa JinderÅsa Jinder is a player of the nyckelharpa , and composer, producer, journalist, author and lecturer...
)
Songs on Svensktoppen
- Viva! Fernando Garcia - 1994
- Hemmets jul - 1994-1995
- Something in your eyes - 2011
Tested on Svensktoppen but did not place
- Allt eller ingenting - 1997
- När natten blir dag - 1997
- När livet är som bäst - 1998
- Lycklig- 1998
- Det vet bara jag - 2001 (with Totta NäslundTotta NäslundErik Torsten "Totta" Näslund was a Swedish rock and blues musician, with leftist political views.- Biography :...
) - Nu är tid att leva - 2002 (with Åsa JinderÅsa JinderÅsa Jinder is a player of the nyckelharpa , and composer, producer, journalist, author and lecturer...
och Tommy NilssonTommy NilssonErik Tommy Nilsson is a Swedish rock singer and composer. Swedish critics state that he has one of the best voices of Sweden....
) - Grand Hotel - 2004
- Ett äventyr - 2007 (with Emrik)
TV
Jenny Silver has participated in numerous television shows such as Fångarna på fortet, NyhetsmorgonNyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....
, Kockduellen, Doobidoo
Doobidoo
Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish version called Dubidu and an Australian version that goes by You may be right....
, Sing a long, Sommarkrysset and Så ska det låta
Så ska det låta
Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006....
and also "Ponnyakuten").