Alice Babs
One of Sweden's national treasures, Alice Babs covered many styles - including
jazz, opera and pop - in a long career in music and acting, which also included
an appearance in the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest. A soprano with a three-octave
range, she initially made her name as a cheery, wholesome character in the
Swedish movie 'Swing It, Magistern' in 1940 and subsequently appeared in more
than a dozen Swedish language films.
In 1958 she became the first artist to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song
Contest, finishing in fourth place with the song 'Little Star' and went on...
