Michaela Dornonville de la Cour
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Maria Susanna Michaela Dornonville de la Cour, also known simply as De la Cour, is best known as a singer in the Swedish pop music group Army of Lovers
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Army of Lovers are a Swedish dance music group formed in 1987.The name of the band alludes to a documentary Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen about the German gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim, the title of which in turn alludes to the Theban Band.-History:The founding members,...

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Biography

Michaela was born on 16 August 1961 in Helsingborg
Helsingborg
Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

, Sweden
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. Her last name since birth Dornonville de la Cour a royal from her fathers side.

Prior to joining Army of Lovers, de la Cour qualified as a teacher (and has taught at the Adolf-Fredrik music school in Stockholm
Stockholm
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) and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
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 in Los Angeles
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She joined Army of Lovers in 1991, leaving in December 1995. Since her departure from the group, she released the single S.O.S. in 2000 through Universal Music
Universal Music Group
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. Releasing her own music on an independent label, she is again making music with Stefan Axelsson and was last seen on the TV show Miss Supranational in Poland singing one of her songs, Back on Earth, in August 2010.

She was booked for an exclusive gig in Ekaterineburg and started the New Year with her new show and singing new songs and a few old hits.

She was named Mrs Sweden in the mrsworld.com 2009 & 2010 competitions. The Mrs World TV shows are seen by 500 million people. Michaela is also working part time with the Mrs Sweden project, giving other women a chance to win the title Mrs Sweden and to appear in the competition Mrs World.

Michaela is also a jewellery designer
Jewelry designer
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. She helps others to start their own company becoming a homesaler in Design Michaela de la Cour company.

She will be seen in an upcoming movie called Lies 2 Love, and occasionally works on TV and on stage.

Michaela is the deisgner of the red ribbon for HIV Sverige (HIV Sweden) that honours a new person or organisation every year.

Discography

See also Army Of Lovers discography.

Solo singles:
  • Rumours And Lies (1997, only as promo single)
  • S.O.S (2000)
  • Back On Earth (2008, digital single via iTunes
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