Alice Babs

Personal Info

Birthday

January 26, 1924

Day of Death

2014-02-11

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden

Also Known As

Alice Sjöblom

Hildur Alice Nilson

Alice Babs

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.

Known For

Song of Stockholm

Symphonie in Gold

Young Eagles

I dur och skur

Minns ni?

Resan till dej

Drömsemester

Our Gang

Filmography

2016
När molnen skingras
as Self
2007
Alice Babs - Swing It!
as Herself
2004
Swing it Alice!
as Self
1995
Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)
1993
Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
1968
Det hopfällbara slottet
as Mother
1959
Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel
as herself
Swinging at the Castle
as Inga "Trollet" Larsson
1958
Musik ombord
as Ulla Wickström
1956
Swing it, fröken
as Alice Lind
Symphonie in Gold
as Singer
1953
Resan till dej
as Gunborg Karlsson
I dur och skur
as Greta Norman
1952
Drömsemester
as Alice Babs
1947
Song of Stockholm
as Britt Forsberg
1946
Det glada kalaset
as Guest house guest, jazz singer
1945
Skådetennis
as Herself
1944
Young Eagles
as Marianne Hedvall
1942
A Singing Girl
as Inger Babs Jansson
Our Gang
as Alice Bergendahl
1941
Magistrarna på sommarlov
as Inga Danell
1940
'Swing It' Teacher
as Inga Danell