Rebecka Törnqvist
Rebecka Törnqvist (born 26 April 1964 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz and pop vocalist. Her debut album A Night like This was released in 1993 and sold over 100,000 copies. This was followed by Good Thing in 1995.
Rebecka Törnqvist
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- Name
- Rebecka Törnqvist
- Born
- 1964 · Uppsala Cathedral Assembly.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- singer · musician
- Fields
- pop music · jazz
- Languages
- Swedish
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Rebecka Törnqvist (born 26 April 1964 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz and pop vocalist. Her debut album A Night like This was released in 1993 and sold over 100,000 copies. This was followed by Good Thing in 1995.
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Most of the albums by Rebecka Törnqvist are sung in English, with the exception of Vad jag vill (2001). She helped to increase "interest in young female jazz vocalists in Sweden in the 1990s, though her solo albums weren't pure jazz, but rather pop with heavy jazz influences".
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• Name — Rebecka Törnqvist • Origin — Uppsala, Sweden • Genre — Jazz, pop • Years Active — 1993–present • Label — EMI, Warner, Kaza, Metronome
With the band Gloria
With the band Gloria
• Year — Album details — Peak chart positions • SWE • 1999 — Gloria * Release date: 1999 * Label: WMS — 13 • 2003 — People Like You and Me * Release date: 2003 * Label: WMS — 26 • "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Discography
• Year — Album details — Peak chart positions • SWE • 1993 — A Night Like This * Release date: 1993 * Label: EMI — 4 • 1995 — Good Thing * Release date: 1995 * Label: EMI — 1 • 1996 — The Stockholm Kaza Session (with Per 'Texas' Johansson) * Release date: 1996 * Label: EMI — 12 • 1998 — Tremble My Heart * Release date: 1998 * Label: EMI — 5 • 2001 — Vad Jag Vill (Swedish for What I Want) * Release date: 2001 * Label: WMS — 21 • 2004 — Travel Like in Songs * Release date: 2004 * Label: EMI — 10 • 2006 — Melting into Orange * Release date: 2006 * Label: EMI — 14 • Fire in the Hole: Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan (with Sara Isaksson) * Release date: 2006 * Label: UNI — 22 • 2008 — The Cherry Blossom and the Skyline Rising from the Street * Release date: 2008 * Label: EMI — 31 • 2011 — Scorpions * Release date: 2011 * Label: WMS — 25 • 2017 — Home Secretary * Release date: 2017 * Label: BOR — 55 • "—" denotes releases that did not chart
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- 1.Rebecka Törnqvist. Bio/Albums. Biography. rebeckatornqvist.se.
- 2.Rebecka Törnqvist. 1995-09.
- 3.Lars Lovén. Rebecka Törnqvist. allmusic.com.
- 4.Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist – Fire In The Hole (Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan). discogs.com.
- 5.Rebecka Törnqvist – Scorpions. acharts.us.
- 6.Chartquellen: SE
- 7.Auszeichnungen für Musikverkäufe: SE
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