Lill Lindfors
Maj Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors (born 12 May 1940) is a Swedish singer who has performed in Scandinavia since the 1960s. She and Svante Thuresson performed the song "Nygammal Vals" ("New, yet familiar waltz") as the Swedish entrants in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966.
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Lill Lindfors

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- Full name
- Maj Lillemor Lindfors.
- Born
- 1940. · Helsinki.
- Nationality
- Sweden.
- Occupation
- singer, actress, musician, songwriter and presenter.
- Fields
- jazz.
- Honours
- H. M. The King's Medal, Edvardpriset, Karl Gerhards Hederspris, Swedish Music Hall of Fame and Cornelis Vreeswijk scholarship.
- Languages
- Swedish.
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Maj Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors (born 12 May 1940) is a Swedish singer who has performed in Scandinavia since the 1960s. She and Svante Thuresson performed the song "Nygammal Vals" ("New, yet familiar waltz") as the Swedish entrants in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966.
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Lill Lindfors (born 1940) is a Swedish actor, actress and musician, among other activities. The actor was born Maj Lillemor Lindfors in Helsinki. Lill Lindfors is a member of Stadsbrudskåren and held the position of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Genres include jazz. Languages used include Swedish. The actor received Cornelis Vreeswijk scholarship, Edvardpriset and Karl Gerhards Hederspris, among others.
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Career
Career
Lindfors was born into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family in Helsinki, Finland, and she moved to Sweden with her family when she was eight years old. She made her debut as a revue actress in Uddevalla in 1960. The following year she made her first recording. In the most recent decades, Lindfors has been known in Scandinavia for her "one-woman shows" in which she mixes music with a lot of comedy. She was one of the first artists who sang samba in Sweden, and she was also one of the first Swedish performers who did stand-up comedy in her shows. Eurovision Song Contest Lindfors's performance of "Nygammal Vals" ("New, yet familiar waltz") with Svante Thuresson took second place in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966. She was the presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was most famous for (seemingly) having a wardrobe malfunction live, during the contest, after passing through a part of the elaborate set. She later admitted it was a gag, but that it had not been rehearsed beforehand. The EBU was reportedly not pleased with the stunt. It remains one of the most iconic moments in the contest's history. She also performed "Musik ska byggas utav glädje" ("My Joy Is Building Bricks of Music") as the contest's major opener. Others She has starred in several Swedish TV shows which have won awards in Montreux. In 1998, she became Sweden's Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF.
Personal life
Personal life
Lindfors lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She married director Peter Wester in 1969 and they had a daughter Petronella. They were divorced in 1974. She was then in relationship with the actor Brasse Brännström from 1974 to 1984. Since 1991 she has been married to the director Anders Byström.
Albums
Albums
1964: Adam och Eva (with Owe Thörnqvist) 1967: Påsen (with Anders Linder) 1967: Du är den ende 1968: Kom i min värld 1970: Albin & Greta (with Svante Thuresson) 1970: Vi har varann 1970: Mellan dröm och verklighet 1971: Sång 1973: Kom igen!
Singles
Singles
(Selective) 1966: "Du är den ende" ("Romance") 1967: "En sån karl" ("Just Like a Man") 1967: "Hör min samba" 1968: "En man i byrån" ("If You Can Put That in a Bottle") 1968: "Teresa" 1969: "Mellan dröm och verklighet" 1970: "Axel Öhman" (duet with Svante Thuresson) 1973: "Månskugga" 1973: "Sången han sjöng var min egen" ("Killing Me Softly with His Song") 1978: "Om du nånsin kommer fram till Samarkand" 1978: "Tillsammans är ett sätt att finnas till" 1984: "Marias första dans"

Guldskiva för "Du är den ende". Bo Setterlind (textförfattare), Marcus Österdahl (kapellmästare/arrangör), Lill Lindfors (artist), Curt Pettersson (producent), Ivan Nordström (skivbolagsrepresentant).
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Tillsammans med Unicef kan vi rädda barns liv. Unicefs ambassadör Lill Lindfors hälsar på hos Apotek Hjärtat Åhléns City i Stockholm, där våra engagerade medarbetare har sålt massor av Unicefs gåvokort med vattenreningstabletter. Från vänster: apotekschef Farzad Salehi, Gabriel Malke, Lill Lindfors, Lisa Norberg, Linda Kling och Armita Kamyar.
Apotek Hjartat · Unicef-ambassadör Lill Lindfors hälsar på hos Apotek Hjärtat Åhléns City
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- 1.Discogs. Lill Lindfors.
- 2.Yle. Muistojen bulevardi: San Antonio Rose. 18 April 2015.
- 3.O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007.
- 4.Hung Medien. Lill Lindfors discography. swedishcharts.com.
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