Music
SWEDEN
Agnes Carlsson
By Georgia
Agnes Carlsson is a Swedish artist who was
born 6th of Mars in 1988. She became
famous through her victory in the Swedish
version of Idol in 2005. You maybe
recognize her famous song “Right here
Right now”, which was her first most
famous song. Agnes was only seventeen
when she participated in Idol 2005. And
she was only eighteen when she released
her first album called Agnes. During 2009
her international career started with the
single “Release Me” which has sold over
900 000 examples in the hole world.
During the years 2006-2008 she became
very popular in Sweden and she released
many pop songs that were played at the
Swedish Top list. During the spring in 2009
her big single “Release Me” was discovered
abroad. It was first released in Denmark
and sold over 25 000 examples. The single
had huge successes in the UK. During
some weeks the single was at 3rd place at
the top list and sold near 400 000
examples. It did also great success in
France, Germany, Italy and Belgium. Her
second international single “On and On”
was also released in a lot of countries in
Europe. She became also famous in the US
with her single “Release Me”. In 2010 the
Swedish princess invited Agnes to sing at
her wedding together with another big
famous Swedish artist named Björn Skifs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=wBWpETtMlPA Swedish House Mafia
Swedish House Mafia was a Swedish
electronic dance music trio which consists
of the three inspirational men Axwell,
Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso.
They base the group several years ago but
their big breakthrough came in 2010 when
they released their first single “One”,
featuring Pharell Williams. The single
reached big success in both Europe and the
UK and was placed as number three on the
Billboards hot dance club songs and as
number one on the Nederlandse top 40.
Even their second single Miami 2 Ibiza,
with the British rapper Tinie Tempah was a
huge hit and was on the Billboard hot
dance music songs as number one. In
2011the popular group released two more
singles; “Save the world” featuring John
Martin and “Antidote” featuring the English
electro house/dub step-duo Knife Party.
“Save the world” won also nominated to a
Grammy. In 2012 Swedish House Mafia did
cooperate together with Absolute Vodka,
and made the famous hit song
“Greyhound”. As well as they have
cooperated with Absolute Vodka, they have
also cooperated with the famous artist
Usher, which result in the two songs
“Numb” and “Euphoria”. During 2012 they
also released their last song together “Don
´t you worry child” featuring John Martin.
The song got great success and is probably
their most famous; it was also nominated
for a Grammy. Al in al has the trio reached
huge success around the world, and has
even been called “the faces of mainstream
progressive house music.” On the 24th of
June, 2012, the group announced via their
website, the for many fans, said news that
their adjacent tour would be their last
together. “Today we want to share with
you, that the tour we are about to go on
will be our last. We want to thank every
single one of you that came with us on this
journey. We came, we raved, we loved”. On
March 24, 2013 they did their final
appearance at Ultra Music Festival in
Miami, which come to be one of the biggest
manifestations for dance music through all
time, with 330000 visitors in two
weekends.