Alice Babs

Person · Open Library

Born

1924-01-26

Died

2014-02-11

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden

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…

Known for

• När molnen skingras — Self2016
• Alice Babs - Swing It! — Herself2007
• Swing it Alice! — Self2004
• Så ska det låta — Self1997
• Stjärnbilder — (archive footage)1995
• Minns ni? — (archive footage)1993
• Det hopfällbara slottet — Mother1968
• Swinging at the Castle — Inga "Trollet" Larsson1959
• Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel — herself1959
• Musik ombord — Ulla Wickström1958

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

SE

Active from

1924-01-26

Active to

2014-02-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

31,742

Total plays

229,261

Alice Babs (born Hildur Alice Nilsson; 26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014) was a singer and actress from Kalmar, Sweden. While she worked in a wide number of genres—Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs, and opera—She was best known internationally as a jazz singer, and for being Sweden's first entrant in Eurovision singing in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. After making her breakthrough in Swing it magistern (Swing It, Teacher!) (1940), she appeared in more than a dozen Swedish language films.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,308x

2. 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

   · 2018 · cited 8,115x

3. Mutation in the α-Synuclein Gene Identified in Families with Parkinson's Disease

   · 1997 · cited 7,064x

4. Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

   · 2009 · cited 6,930x

5. Standardized Myocardial Segmentation and Nomenclature for Tomographic Imaging of the Heart

   · 2002 · cited 5,383x

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Key dates

Born

26 January 1924

Died

11 February 2014

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Sweden

Place of death

Stockholm

Child

Titti Sjöblom

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

Swedish

Religion

Lutheranism

Award

Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland

Participant in

Eurovision Song Contest 1958