Allsvenskan (women's handball)
Allsvenskan is the Swedish second division in women's team handball. Earlier, the name was used by the top division. The league is organized by the Swedish Handball Federation.
Mats Bergmans
Mats Bergmans is a dansband from Nyköping, Sweden, established in 1973 as "Sjösa kustband", before a naming dispute made them change name to "Sjösagrabbarna". The band became a full-time band in 1981, and changed name to Mats Bergmans in 1987.
Date (band)
Date is a modern dansband from Sweden. The band was established in 1993.
The band has participated at Melodifestivalen.
Tommys
Tommys is a dansband from Vaasa. It was established in 1980. Hans Martin was the singer from establishment until the year 2000. During the 1980s the band mostly played throughout Ostrobothnia, and Swedish-speaking parts of southern Finland. The band's breakthrough in Sweden came with the 1991 hit song "Vår dotter".
Gunnar Wiklund
Gunnar Wiklund, born 17 August 1935 in Luleå, Sweden, dead 29 September 1989 in Lysekil, Sweden, was a Swedish singer. He scored several Svensktoppen hits. He participated at Melodifestivalen four times.
Lily Berglund
Lily Berglund (Kvarnsveden, 21 July 1928 - Stockholm, 15 August 2010) was a Swedish singer. She was married to Kapellmeister Göte Wilhelmson.
Ulla Billquist
Ulla Billquist, born Schönström (Eslöv, 14 August 1907 - Stockholm, 6 July 1946) as Ulla Ebba Ingegerd Hahn, was a Swedish female schlager singer. She was mostly successful during the early 1940s of her career.
Carli Tornehave
Carli Tornehave, born 26 August 1932 in Stockholm, is a Swedish singer and actor.
He has participated at Melodifestivalen six times; in 1962, her performed "Anneli" and "När min vän", in 1963, he performed "Twist till menuett" and "En gång i Stockholm". The song "En gång i Stockholm" won the contest, but Monica Zetterlund was appointed to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in London. In 1966, he performed "Monte Carlo" and "Härliga söndag" ending on third and eighth place.
Nick Borgen
Nils Thore "Nick" Borgen, born 5 January 1952 in Andenes, Nordland, is a Norwegian–Swedish musician, singer and writer (debut novel: "Den okända soldaten", 2009). He's famous for songs like "We Are All the Winners" and "Den glider in". Between 1990 and 2005, he had an own dansband, Nick Borgens orkester.
Jigs
Jigs is a dansband, founded in 1966 in Trollhättan, Sweden. The band scored many hits in 1970s. Some of the popular songs include "Hallå du gamle indian", "Bli min gäst", "Dardanella", "Let's Twist Again" and "From a Jack to a King". Their album series was named "Goa bitar". When the band played at Cortina in Vinberg on 16 July 1976, AC/DC appeared as a pause act.
Candela (band)
Candela is a dansband from Vejbystrand in Sweden, established in 1984
Sannex
Sannex is a dansband from Sweden. They participated at "Dansbandskampen" in 2009.
Ingmar Nordströms
Ingmar Nordströms was a dansband from Växjö, Sweden that was established in 1955 by Ingmar Nordström. Their first appearance occurred in the Eringsboda folkpark. Their last appearance occurred in Växjö on 19 December 1991. In 1987, the band won a Grammis award in the "Dansband of the Year" category.
Majid Nizami
Majid Nizami () (April 3, 1928 - July 26, 2014), was a Pakistani chief editor and publisher. He worked for Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications of Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt was founded by Majid's brother, Hameed Nizami. He was also the chairman of Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust.
Nizami died in Lahore, Pakistan from heart disease, aged 86.
Curt Haagers
Curt Haagers was a dansband from Sweden.
Schytts
Schytts is a dansband, established in 1962 as "Public Killers" before changing their name the upcoming year. Their major breakthrough came in 1973, with the song Aj, aj, aj.
Wahlströms
Wahlströms was a dansband from Vadstena, Sweden, established in 1985.
In 1999, the band participated in the "Dansbandslåten" contest with the song "Blå blå ögon".
On 27 September 2011, it was announced that the band was to be disestablished following the last appearance at Brunnsparken in Örebro on 14 January 2012.
Wahlströms participated at Dansbandskampen in 2008.
Grönwalls
Grönwalls was a dansband from Hässleholm in Sweden. The band won the Swedish dansband championships in Sunne in August 1992. Famous hit songs include "Du ringde från Flen" from 1993 and "Ett liv tillsammans", written by Calle Kindbom and Peo Pettersson, topping Svensktoppen in 1995, as well as "Regn i mitt hjärta" from 1996.
Several band members also participated in the side project "Grönrock", which in mid 2008 played with Dan Hylander. In October 2008, the band announced a break from New Year 2008-2009.
In November–December 2009, the band announced its comeback.
Jannez
Jannez is a dansband from Laxsjö, Sweden, established in 1976 as "Stars orkester".
In September 1996, the band scored a Svensktoppen hit for two weeks with the song "De blindas café".
Jannez participated at Dansbandskampen 2008, performing Paul Paljett's 1977 song "Guenerina".
Victoria Award
The Victoria Award (), earlier called the Victoria Scholarship () is awarded to a Swedish athlete or pair of athletes every year since 1979. It is awarded on Öland, on 14 July. That day is the birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.
Mona Gustafsson
Mona Gustafsson, born 9 August 1956 in Halmstad, Sweden, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, guitarist.
Earlier she used to sing with Leif Bloms. The band was disestablished on 31 December 1995 and she established another dansband in 1996. It was named and disestablished in January 2009. She then started a country music career instead. She was nominated as "Female Singer of the Year 2006" by SR P4, and in the Får jag lov magazines Guldklaven voting.
As a 15 years old girl, Mona Gustafsson started to sing with the Lill-Nickes dansband from Halmstad, which was established on 1 May 1972. Other members were her father, Kurt Gustafsson, 44 years old, Sven-Arne Olofsson, 21 years old, and Kapellmeister Dan Larsson, 17 years old. Their first appearance occurred in Värnamo on 14 June 1972.
Some years later, she was a founder of another dansband Curt Jürgens.
In the early 1980s, she moved to Växjö, and in 1981, she started touring with Leif Bloms, and when the three Leif, Gert and Åke Blom retired on 31 December 1995, she started her own dansband in 1996.
As a songwriter, she has composed music for both herself and others. One of her most famous songs are "Dej ska jag älska all min tid". It won Hänts meloditävling, in 1992 with Leif Bloms. This was the first and only in the history of the competition when the winning song was written and performed by the same person. The competition was later cancelled. She has also written songs for acts like Thorleifs, Curt Haagers, Kikki Danielsson and Sandins. The song "Så länge mina ögon ser", originally recorded by Thorleifs on the 1987 album "Till Folkets park", was recorded by Mona G:s orkester and released as a solo single in 2007. Several of her songs have been covered by others.
So called "Mona songs" are recognized by calm, ballad-like, songs with lyrics in Swedish about love, longing and missing someone. Writing own songs within your a larger scale is rare within the dansband genre.
CC &amp; Lee
CC & Lee is a band from Sweden, established in 2003. Their major breakthrough was Dansbandskampen 2008. In November 2011, it was announced that the band would no longer appear as a dansband.
Ronald Reagan Park, Gdańsk
The Ronald Reagan Park () is located in the neighborhood of Przymorze Wielkie, Gdańsk, Poland.
It was built between 2003 and 2006 out of formerly barren lands. It covers 40 hectares. It honors US President Ronald Reagan, who was considered for playing a major role in the fall of Communism in Poland. It also honors Pope John Paul II.
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