Charlotte Perrelli
Charlotte Perrelli ( born October 7, 1974 in Hovmantorp, community Lessebo as Anna Jenny Charlotte Nilsson ) is a Swedish pop and Dansbandsängerin.
Biography
Perrelli, which occurred earlier under her birth name Nilsson, had already sung for years in dance music band Wizex until she succeeded in 1999 to win the Euro Vision Song Contest with the title Take Me to Your Heaven. Subsequently, she left the band to start a solo career.
Perrelli is married to restaurateur Nicola Ingrosso. Because of disputes within the family, the couple adopted the family name Perrelli. Perrelli brought 2004 to a son. Even after that she was still in show business and as a television presenter working.
Perrelli took part in 2008 with the title Hero of the Swedish preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest and managed in the fourth preliminary round to jump directly to the final at Globen in Stockholm. She arrived there the first place and represented Sweden in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, where it also managed to qualify for the two days later held the final. There Perrelli reached the 18th place among 25 participants, which they could not repeat their success of 1999. However, Hero was a great success in Sweden and took five weeks in a row the first place. In addition, the song also managed the leap into the charts in Switzerland and Denmark, Finland and Norway.
2012 took Perrelli with the song The Girl again at the Swedish preliminary decision in part, but failed in the fourth semi-final. The single missed the connection of the event made it into the charts, it reached the same album that contains a duet with the Belgian singer Kate Ryan, the Swedish top 10.
Discography
- 2000: Charlotte
- 2001: Miss Jealousy ( SW # 32)
- 2004: Gone Too Long ( SW # 11)
- 2006: I din röst (SW # 29)
- 2008: Hero (SW # 3)
- 2008: Rimfrostjul (SW # 12)