Nina Lizell

Nina Lizell in Stockholm Photo: HUI.Press

Nina Lizell (born September 1, 1944 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish pop singer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Stockholm, she completed several foreign language courses in London , Paris and Geneva , with the professional goal of becoming a stewardess. She started singing and quickly became popular in Sweden. From 1966 she was in Germany, among other places, where she was discovered in a talent competition and in the same year she also recorded her first record Du go pass . She appeared in the first color television broadcast on ARD on August 26, 1967, the gala evening of the record . At the international hit competition Golden Orpheus 1969 in Bulgaria , she took fourth place. With the title A little devil is in you , she also took part in the 1970 German Schlager competition in Mainz.

She performed in both the FRG and the GDR . In 1969 she celebrated her first hit in the GDR with Smoking in the forest is prohibited , which was then released in 1970 by the singer Bonnie St. Claire in the FRG. She created another evergreen with The Man in the Panama Hat . She sang in almost all popular German TV shows such as the gala evening of the record, music from Studio B , Da lies Musike drin , Klock 8, aft Strom , Ein Kessel Buntes , ZDF hit parade , Der goldene Schuss and German Schlager Festival , Zum Blauen Bock . The ZDF and Swedish Television / SR-produced her 1973 show Tak is thank you . Together with Heiner Stelter , she presented the current showroom of the North German Radio on February 28, 1987 . In total there were around 100 television programs in which she participated. Her AMIGA LP 'Nina Lizell' alone sold over 1.6 million copies in the GDR , according to Superillu . Lizell also had her own TV show in Sweden for a time and received a gold record for the duet title Vem kan segla förutan vind together with Lee Hazlewood . She sang u. a. also in a duet with Britt Kersten , Ireen Sheer , Horst Köbbert , Hana Buštíková (from the duo Hana & Dana ), Gavin du Porter and Pawel Nowak .

She also toured Eastern Europe as well as Venezuela and Cuba .

After their wedding in the mid-1970s, she followed her husband, the Icelandic composer Thor Baldursson, to Los Angeles in the USA . In 1982 Nina Lizell returned to Sweden with her children Christian and Carina. Her comeback in Germany began in 1996. In 1999 she released two maxi- CDs , both of which hit the airplay charts, Say I need you and Live with you .

In addition to her native Swedish , Lizell also speaks Danish , Norwegian , German, English and French .

Nina Lizell appears regularly in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland at gala and live events as well as in television programs.

On her 70th birthday, Lizell made a musical comeback and released new titles and is back on television.

Nina Lizell was a guest on the MDR Christmas show with Frank Schöbel on December 24th, 2014 and presented titles from her mini Christmas album Jul, jul, strålande jul (Christmas, Christmas, glorious Christmas) .

She celebrated her 50th stage anniversary in Germany in the MDR show Musik für Sie in June 2017, where her theme song Dankeschön also celebrated its TV premiere . In Sweden she released the CD Tusen tack! (50 år som artist) on the label Dos Santos Entertainment .

In Germany, she released the single Miracle exists in 2019 . On her 75th birthday, the album Anniversary was released in September 2019 . In January 2020 she received the smago! Award in connection with 50 years of the ZDF hit parade.

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

In the land of milk and honey   DE 40 06/15/1969 (2 weeks) There is a little devil in you   DE 38 07/13/1970 (4 weeks)

Albums

• 1971: Nina Lizell (RCA)
• 1971: Dance party with Nina Lizell (Golden 12)
• 1973: Nina Lizell (Amiga)
• 1974: Nina Lizell (Cam Scandinavia)
• 2009: Music is my life (Amiga)
• 2000: Still it's love (da -Music)
• 2001: My great successes (bellaphon)
• 2002: Äntligen är jag på väg tillbaka! (LMV)
• 2016: hit legends (Cala Millor)
• 2017: Thank you (anniversary CD for the 50th stage anniversary in Germany) / (Dos Santos Entertainment)
• 2019: Anniversary (Dos Santos Entertainment)

Singles

• 1967: Pineapple / When nobody understands you anymore (Golden 12)
• 1967: You pass by / The streets are empty (Golden 12)
• 1967: Now or never / Who can't wait for love (Golden 12)
• 1968: Take / Sunshine and Rain (Golden 12)
• 1968: This is the world / You missed the train (Golden)
• 1969: ... I prefer kissing (Amiga)
• 1969: Every beginning is difficult (Amiga) - duet with Britt Kersten
• 1969: Drive with me car (Amiga)
• 1969: There is nothing in the lexicon about you / Graf Bobby (Golden 12)
• 1969: In the land of milk and honey / My first kiss (Golden 12)
• 1969: Smoking in the forest (Amiga)
• 1969: Typical man / The red lantern (Golden 12)
• 1970: But you laugh out of love / don't always talk about the weather (Amiga)
• 1970: That's the nice thing about grandpa / You are not worth a tear (Golden 12)
• 1970: A Little Devil / Heaven No. 7 (Golden 12)
• 1970: Kiss, kiss, kiss / Love is love (Golden 12)
• 1971: Nikedom / He's Coming to Me Tonight (Golden 12)
• 1972: Aloha-oe / Mama, she'll forgive me (EMI)
• 1972: The colors of my love / sand was on the beach (EMI)
• 1972: In the middle of the road / Venezuela (EMI)
• 1972: Make no secret of it / If there were only girls (Amiga)
• 1972: Salto, Salto / Hallo (Amiga)
• 1972: Dance with me / It's raining roses (EMI)
• 1973: Bonjour Tristesse / Learn to love me (EMI)
• 1973: The man with the Panama hat / I want to experience that again (Amiga)
• 1973: Heaven and Earth / Well, what did I say (Amiga)
• 1973: And in the evening / I have a heart for you (finger)
• 1974: Memory of him / Come on, my darling (finger)
• 1975: One, two, three / I can only give you love (Jupiter)
• 1975: Please don't let me wait / Together you look for dreams (Amiga)
• 1976: I want a child / But then he came (Jupiter)
• 1977: And you want to go / Hans, open the door (Jupiter)
• 1996: I have a heart full of love (DSR)
• 1997: Piri Piri (DSR)
• 1999: To Live With You (Funny Artists)
• 1999: Say I Need You (Funny Artists)
• 2000: You're the Sweetest Temptation (Funny Artists)
• 2000: Still it's love (da-Music)
• 2000: If You Need Me (Funny Artists)
• 2001: You touched my soul by the way (Funny Artists)
• 2002: I still dream of you sometimes (Funny Artists)
• 2002: Again and again (Fanny Artists)
• 2003: Bel Ami / Back when the rain came (da-music)
• 2003: You're More To Me (Funny Artists)
• 2004: The Girls of San Cristobal (Funny Artists)
• 2005: Can You Be True to Me (Funny Artists)
• 2008: Best before (Hitmix-Music)
• 2009: Give me your dreams tonight (CARIBLUE)
• 2014: Stay with me when summer goes (Cala MIllor)
• 2014: Jul, jul, strålande jul (Christmas, Christmas, glorious Christmas / Christmas, radiant Christmas) (Dos Santos Entertainment)
• 2015: I dream of Corfu (Cala Millor)
• 2017: Thank You (Dos Santos Entertainment)
• 2019: Miracles do exist (Dos Santos Entertainment)

Web links

• Nina Lizell at Discogs (English)
• Nina Lizell on MusicBrainz (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IMDb : Gala evening of the record
2. ↑ Superillu issue 42/1996 of October 10, 1996, page 18
3. ↑ NINA LIZELL. Surprise comeback with the title "Stay with me when summer goes on" at 'VanDango Media'! In: smago! June 4, 2014, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Mini-Christmas album Jul, jul, strålande jul (Christmas, Christmas, glorious Christmas / Christmas, radiant Christmas)
5. ↑ Frank Schöbel in his MDR Christmas show. "The beard scratches so badly". In: BILD . November 6, 2014, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
6. ↑ 50-year stage anniversary. Nina Lizell: "Blonde is capitalized". In: MDR . June 5, 2017, archived from the original on August 20, 2017 ; accessed on February 20, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Swedish pop star Nina Lizell with a new single. In: press portal. February 14, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Nina Lizell celebrates "anniversary" ... In: smago! August 28, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Chart sources: Germany ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.