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Lena Philipsson

Check out the video below and hear for yourself. As her popularity faded in the late '90s she took a seven-year recording hiatus before making a spectacular comeback with 2004's Det Gör Ont En Stund På Natten Men Inget På Dan, the best-selling album of her career, which scored three consecutive Top Ten hits on the Swedish charts, including the massive number one title track. She released her new album in 2005. In 2001, she had a stage comeback; the Lena Philipsson Show was sold out for two and a half years around Sweden. With her career widely considered to be over, she had a great deal to prove.

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The show was a critical and public success. Despite being the third favourite to win the competition, she finished in joint 5th place. After its success in Stockholm and Goteborg, the show Lena+Orup went on tour across Sweden late 2008. In 1987, she released the song 'Aquarius 99', a duet with the Russian composer Igor Nikolaev. Lena and Orup set up their own show on China Teatern in Stockholm at the same time as the album release.

Lena Philipsson

Because Melodifestivalen is a family show, her appearance as host was met with some controversy due to numerous jokes considered inappropriate for the audience. The song was written by Lena Philipsson, produced by Anders Hansson. Well — it was literally filmed on her mobile phone. But Lena Ph has taken it and excelled at it. In the early 1990s, her fame increased in Sweden, and she continued to release albums until 1997.

Lena Philipsson

She even brought the trumpets out. She was a regular presence on the Swedish charts in the late '80s and early '90s. She participated in the Swedish New Faces in 1982. Her debut album, also titled Kärleken Är Evig, was a Top 20 hit. The highlight of the vid is her doing her weekly shop at Lidl.

Lena Philipsson

In 2004, she returned after a seven-year hiatus from the album charts. She represented in the , finishing fifth. In 2004 she made her first entry into the Melodifestivalen as a singer since 1988. The album Talking in Your Sleep, which mixed English and Swedish-language songs, became her first Top Ten album. However, her popularity took a significant dip in the '90s, and following the commercial failure of 1997's Basta Vanna, she retired from active recording for seven years.

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Released in 1989, My Name was her first album to be recorded entirely in English, and became her most successful release to that point, going double platinum with over 120,000 copies sold. In the early 1990s, she was one of three pop stars who were portrayed on stamps in Sweden; the others were Roxette and Jerry Williams. The song, composed by , combined up-tempo and disco themes. The contest had also changed significantly since her previous entries; it now featured a semifinal stage and was much more competitive. Philipsson's stage appearance caused much controversy in the Swedish press and media because her performance, in a short fuchsia pink dress and high heels, consisted of dancing with the microphone stand in a fashion similar to 's. Ooooh Queena Philipsson is out with new music?! The album Det Gör Ont En Stund På Natten Men Inget På Dan went gold 30,000 copies sold in just nine days, and spent 51 weeks on the Swedish charts, ultimately going double platinum and giving her the best run of hits of her career. After one day in the Swedish shops, it had sold over 30,000 copies.

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. Although she sewed her own stage clothes during her early career, she has said that she no longer has the time. This was followed by A Woman's Gotta Do What a Woman's Gotta Do, a James Bond-inspired concept album about a fictional secret agent. It was the first album for which Philipsson contributed songwriting to every track, and was another big hit. In 1991, she recorded a concept album and show about a female secret agent, 'Agent 006'. .

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