Sanna Nielsen

**Sanna Viktoria Nielsen** (born 27 November 1984) is a Swedish singer. She has participated in Melodifestivalen seven times between 2001 and 2014. Her seventh try was in Melodifestivalen 2014 with the song "Undo". The song won and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

## Career

Sanna Nielsen was born and grew up in Bromölla, Skåne. Her career started at several talent searches, the first being in 1992 in Olofström. In 1994 she participated in a talent search in Kallinge and won with the song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". Nielsen performed with the danceband Mats Elmes between 1995 and 1996 at the age of eleven.

At the same time she reached the number one spot on the Svensktoppen Chart with the song "Till en fågel". Nielsen became the youngest person to reach number one at the chart.

In September 1996 Nielsens debut album "Silvertoner" was released. A reviewer of the album for _Göteborgs-Posten_ compared Nielsen to  Carola Häggkvist and Sissel Kyrkjebø. During the following years Nielsen released the Christmas album _Min önskejul_ in 1997 and the music single "Time to Say Goodbye" in 1999. During her high school years, she studied the Estetichal programme and mostly music at Helenehoms Gymnastin in Malmö.

In December 2001 Nielsen participated in a Christmas tour along with Christer Sjögren, Sten Nilsson and Charlotte Perrelli. In 2002 she toured with Roger Pontare and in December the same year she participated in a Christmas concert with Kalle Moraeus and Tito Beltrán in both 2003 and 2004.

In February 2006, her second solo music album _Nära mej, nära dej_ was released with lyrics and music by Fredrik Kempe and Marcos Ubeda. In July-August 2007 she was on a new music tour called _Sommar, Sommar, Sommar_ along with Shirley Clamp and Sonja Aldén. In April 2008 the album _Stronger_ was released, an album completely in English language, the first time Nielsen had such an album. The same year the album _Our Christmas_ was released, containing Christmas songs along with Shirley Clamp and Sonja Aldén. In December 2013 Nielsen released her seventh studio album called _Min jul_ with Christmas songs.

At the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Nielsen did the commentary for Swedish television.

### Albums

|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="180"|Album|align="center" colspan="1" width="20"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="100"|Certification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1996|_Silvertoner_ *First studio album|style="text-align:center"|55|<small></small>||||
|1997|_Min önskejul_ *First Christmas album|style="text-align:center"|—|<small></small>||||
|2006|_Nära mej, nära dej_ *Second studio album *Released: 15 February 2006|style="text-align:center"|12|<small></small>||||
|2007|_Sanna 11-22_ *Compilation album *Released: 7 March 2007|style="text-align:center"|19|<small></small>||||
|2008|_Stronger_ *Third studio album *Released: 16 April 2008||style="text-align:center"|1|<small>**Sweden: Gold**</small>|||
|2011|_I'm in Love_ *Fourth studio album *Released: 2 March 2011||style="text-align:center"|3||||
|2012|_Vinternatten_ *Second Christmas album *Released: November 2012||style="text-align:center"|5||||
|2013|_Min jul_ *Third Christmas album *Released: December 2013||style="text-align:center"|4||||
|2014|_16 bästa_ *second compilation album *Released: 9 April 2014|style="text-align:center"||||||
|2014|_7_ *Seventh studio albnum *Released: 30 June 2014||style="text-align:center"|1||||

- Joint albums
|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="180"|Album|align="center" colspan="1" width="20"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="100"|Certification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2008|_Our Christmas_ <small>(Sanna, Shirley, Sonja)</small>||style="text-align:center"|1|<small>**Sweden: Platinum**</small>|||
|2010|_Vår jul_ <small>(Sanna, Shirley, Sonja)</small>||style="text-align:center"|6|<small>**Sweden: Gold**</small>|||

### Singles

|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="220"|Single|align="center" colspan="1" width="20"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="160"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|1996|"Till en fågel"|style="text-align:center;"|46|style="text-align:center;"|_Silvertoner_||
|style="text-align:center;"|2001|"I går, i dag"|style="text-align:center;"|32|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4|_Sanna 11-22_||
|style="text-align:center;"|2003|"Hela världen för mig"|style="text-align:center;"|35||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2005|"Du och jag mot världen" <small>(with Fredrik Kempe)</small>|style="text-align:center;"|20||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2007|"Vågar du, vågar jag"|style="text-align:center;"|10||||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4|2008|"Empty Room"|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|_Stronger_||
|"Nobody Without You"|style="text-align:center;"|33||||||
|"All I Want For Christmas" <small>(Sanna Nielsen, Shirley Clamp & Sonja Aldén)</small>|style="text-align:center;"|39|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|_Our Christmas_||||
|"My Grown Up Christmas List" <small>(Sanna Nielsen, Shirley Clamp & Sonja Aldén)</small>|style="text-align:center;"|41||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2009|"I Can Catch the Moon"|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|_Stronger_||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2010|"Devotion"|style="text-align:center;"|15|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4|_I'm in Love_||
|"Part of Me"|style="text-align:center;"|-||||||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2011|"I'm in Love"|style="text-align:center;"|32||||
|"Can't Stop Love Tonight"|style="text-align:center;"|-||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2012|"Viskar ömt mitt namn"|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|_Vinternatten_||
|style="text-align:center;"|2014|"Undo"|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|TBA||

## Other websites

- Official Website

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Sanna Nielsen
- **image**: Sanna Nielsen, ESC2014 Meet & Greet 02 (crop).jpg
- **caption**: Sanna Nielsen (2014)
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Sanna Viktoria Nielsen
- **birth place**: Edenryd, Scania, Skåne, Sweden
- **genre**: pop music, Pop, schlager, soul music, soul, Dansband, dansband music (early career)
- **occupation**: Singer
- **years active**: 1996–present
- **label**: Warner Music, Warner, Parlophone
- **associated acts**: Mats Elmes, Sonja Aldén, Shirley Clamp, Fredrik Kempe