Acting
Alice Babs
1924-2014
Known for 'Swing It' Teacher, Swing it, fröken, Swinging at the Castle.
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Born01/26/1924
Died02/11/2014
AgeDied at 90
BirthplaceKalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
DepartmentActing
Also known asAlice Sjöblom, Hildur Alice Nilson
Biography
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.
