Jill Johnson
Jill Anna Maria Johnson (born May 24, 1973 in Ängelholm ) is a Swedish singer who mainly makes country music .
life and career
Johnson first appeared on stage at a country gala in Denmark at the age of 13 . A few years later she got a record deal in her homeland, but it did not lead to albums. It was not until she was in her early twenties - after she sang cover versions with a band from Helsingborg - that she got a record deal with EMI . Her first album Sugartree was released there .
Johnson achieved her breakthrough in Sweden in 1998 when she won the Melodifestivalen - the Swedish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest - and then represented her home country with the title Kärleken är ("Love is") at the ESC in Birmingham . There she took tenth place with this pop ballad. In 2003 she took part again in the Melodifestivalen with the country song Crazy in Love, which ultimately took fourth place. In 2005 she moderated the Melodifestivalen finals in Stockholm .
Johnson then recorded more country songs and traveled several times to Nashville , Tennessee , the US country's home. In 2005 a Christmas CD was released ( The Christmas in You ). At the end of October 2006 she brought out The Woman I've Become . In 2011 she appeared in the opening act for US singer Toby Keith . As part of this, she also appeared for the first time in Germany .
Between 2003 and 2014, 14 CDs in a row reached the top 5 of the Swedish album charts. This makes Johnson one of the most successful artists in the country.
On October 7, 2011 Johnson was the first in Sweden with the CD Flirting with Disaster . This was followed by three more number one successes from 2014: live music from Jill's Veranda Nashville , Songs for Daddy and In Tandem (2015, with Doug Seegers ).
Johnson was married to the musician Håkan Werner from 1999 to 2017 , and has with him the daughters Havanna (born 2004) and Bonnie Lee (born 2010). She lives in Borås .
Discography
Albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
---|---|---|---|
SE | |||
1998 | När hela världen ser på |
SE37 (3 weeks) SE |
|
2000 | Daughter of Eve |
SE59 (1 week) SE |
|
2002 | Good girl |
SE37 (3 weeks) SE |
|
2003 | Discography |
SE4th
platinum
(26 weeks)SE |
|
Roots and Wings |
SE5
platinum
(38 weeks)SE |
||
2005 | Being Who You Are |
SE4th
gold
(17 weeks)SE |
|
The Christmas in You |
SE3
gold
(12 weeks)SE |
||
2006 | The Woman I've Become |
SE2
gold
(14 weeks)SE |
|
2007 | Music Row |
SE3
platinum
(22 weeks)SE |
|
2008 | Baby blue paper |
SE3
gold
(27 weeks)SE |
|
2009 | Music Row II |
SE2
platinum
(21 weeks)SE |
|
2010 | The Well-Known and Some Other Favorite Stories |
SE2 (14 weeks) SE |
|
2011 | Flirting with disaster |
SE1
gold
(26 weeks)SE |
|
2012 | A Woman Can Change Her Mind |
SE3 (15 weeks) SE |
|
2014 | Live music from Jill's Veranda, Nashville |
SE1
gold
(35 weeks)SE |
|
Songs for Daddy |
SE1
gold
(11 weeks)SE |
||
2015 | In tandem |
SE1 (25 weeks) SE |
with Doug Seegers
|
Live music from Jills Veranda, Nashville säsong 2 |
SE11 (3 weeks) SE |
||
2016 | For you I'll wait |
SE3 (14 weeks) SE |
|
2017 | Tolkningarna - Så mycket bättre säsong 7 |
SE37 (5 weeks) SE |
|
rodeo |
SE11 (2 weeks) SE |
||
Christmas Island |
SE9 (9 weeks) SE |
||
Live music from Jills Veranda, Nashville säsong 3 |
SE38 (1 week) SE |
Singles
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
---|---|---|---|
SE | |||
1996 | Kommer tid, Kommer vår Jan Johansen 2 |
SE38 (6 weeks) SE |
with Jan Johansen
|
1998 | Kärleken är När hela världen ser på |
SE5
gold
(20 weeks)SE |
|
2003 | Crazy in Love |
SE9 (22 weeks) SE |
|
Can't Get Enough of You Roots and Wings |
SE27 (18 weeks) SE |
||
2004 | Oh, vilken härlig dag |
SE37 (5 weeks) SE |
|
God's Gift |
SE12 (4 weeks) SE |
||
2005 | God Bless a Girl in Love Being Who You Are |
SE37 (5 weeks) SE |
|
2006 | Heartbreak Hotel |
SE41 (6 weeks) SE |
|
Cowboy Up The Woman I've Become |
SE32 (6 weeks) SE |
||
2007 | Angel of the Morning Music Row |
SE30 (12 weeks) SE |
|
2008 | Top of the World Baby Blue Paper |
SE56 (1 week) SE |
|
2015 | I väntan på Julen |
SE73 (3 weeks) SE |
with Tommy Körberg
|
En julsaga (Fairytale of New York) |
SE99 (1 week) SE |
with Stefan Sundström
|
|
2016 | Open your heart |
SE2
gold
(13 weeks)SE |
|
The Burden |
SE93 (1 week) SE |
||
Heaven is oskyldight blå |
SE75 (1 week) SE |
Video albums
- 2008: Music Row - Live in Concert (SE:gold)
swell
- ^ Jill Johnson på turné med Toby Keith , expressen.se
- ↑ a b c Chart discography Sweden
- ↑ Awards for music sales: SE
- ↑ In Tandem (album) in the Swedish charts
Web links
- Official website of Jill Johnson
- Jill Johnson at Discogs (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Johnson, Jill |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Jill Anna Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish country singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ängelholm , Skåne Province , Sweden |