Alda Björk Ólafsdóttir

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Singles

Real good time   UK 7th 08/29/1998 (8 weeks) Girls Night Out   UK 20th December 26, 1998 (7 weeks)

Alda Björk Ólafsdóttir (* 1966 in Kópavogur ) is an Icelandic pop singer and songwriter . As Alda she achieved international success with dance music titles.

Life

Born in Iceland and based in Sweden since she was 13 , Alda began her career as a singer in the Bulgarian band Spectrum Show Band , which played on Scandinavian cruise ships . She then returned to Iceland for two years, where she first became a founding member of the Stjórnin group . After leaving the group before they took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 and the release of their first album, she worked with the instrumentalist and composer Sverrir Stormsker . She sang the female vocalist on the tracks Magna min and Bless on his album Nú er ég klæddir og kominn á rokk og ról (1989) and on Paradís and Man is the woman of the world on his album Glens er ekkert grín (1990). Paradís became a # 1 hit in Iceland.

Despite her success in her home country, she soon turned her back on Iceland and moved to London to pursue an international career that was six years long in coming and was short-lived. After stints with the groups Alda Mehyer , Urban K Loud , Munchie and Exodus , she received a solo recording contract with Wildstar Records in 1998 and was able to place her first two singles for this company in the top 20 of the British charts. Her biggest hit was the # 7 hit Real Good Time , which was used in the film Drive Me Crazy (starring Melissa Joan Hart , 1999). She mostly writes her songs herself, often in collaboration with Malcolm Mehyer. With Mehyer she wrote the music for the musical Atlantis , which has not yet premiered.

Today Alda operates a catering service in Hertfordshire north of London .

Discography

Albums

Alda

• Out Of Alda (1998, Wildstar Records)

Singles

Urban K Loud

• Let Your Body Move (1994, Three Big Cowboys)

Alda

• Real Good Time (1998, Wildstar Records, CDWILD 7)
• Girls Night Out (1998, Wildstar Records, CDWILD 10)

Cover versions of other artists

• Aaron Carter : Real Good Time (on the album Aaron's Party (Come Get It) , 2000)

swell

1. ↑ Charts UK

Web links

• Profile at Ecademy

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .