Sylvia Vrethammar

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Sylvia Vrethammar, 2012
Sylvia Vrethammar, 2012
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Triviality
  SE 54 03/15/2013 (1 week)
Singles
Y viva España
  UK 4th 08/10/1974 (28 weeks)
Hasta la vista
  UK 38 04/26/1975 (5 weeks)

Eva Sylvia Vrethammar (born August 22, 1945 in Uddevalla , Sweden ) is a Swedish singer who is also internationally active. Their musical spectrum ranges from pop, hit, jazz, swing, samba to ballads.

life and work

Vrethammar's father Harald Vrethammar was a teacher. As a child she wanted to be a concert pianist. Under Astrid Berwald, she later took piano lessons at Richard Andersson's music school in Stockholm , which she continued at the Royal Swedish Music Academy . Instead of finishing her piano studies, she decided to study as a teacher. She also took part in amateur music competitions. 1967 began her singing career with the Rune Öfwerman Trio. The following year they made their first television appearance. In 1969 their first album Tycker om dej was released , the title song of which was successfully placed in the Swedish hit parade. The album also included En lärling på våran gård , a cover version of Dusty Springfield's top ten hit Son of a Preacher Man .

In 1970 television entertainer Lennart Hyland became aware of her and hired her as a co-host for his entertainment show Hylands Hörna . In the same year she performed at the International Song Festival in Rio de Janeiro and toured successfully across Scandinavia with the Brazilian samba musicians Trio Pandeiros De Ouro . This earned her the nickname "Samba girl". In 1973 her most successful single was released under her first name Sylvia: Eviva España / Y Viva Espania , a popular summer hit from 1971, with which the Belgian singer Samantha, the Norwegian singer Gro Anita Schønn and Manolo Escobar were already successful, became an English one and Swedish version added. The English version sold over a million copies and reached number 4 on the British singles chart in 1974. In the late summer of 1975, the follow-up single Hasta la vista was released, which reached number 38 in the British singles charts. From the mid-1970s she appeared on German television, including 1974 in the Hit-Journal series and in the ZDF hit parade . In 1977 she worked in the television film Ein Sommernachtsball by Ekkehard Böhmer . Vrethammar took part five times in the Melodifestivalen , the Swedish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest , most recently in 2002 with the song Hon är en annan nu (5th place in the third preliminary round) and in 2013 with Trivialitet (fourth preliminary round). In recent years she has worked with, among others, the jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and his trio, with whom the 2006 album Champagne was recorded in Vrethammar's living room .

In 2010 she sang the song Magdalena (Livet före Döden) on Kristian Anttila's album Svenska Tjejer .

Vrethammar was married to the musician Rune Öfwerman and now lives with her husband and producer Alexander Gietz, the son of one of her first producers, Heinz Gietz , whom she married in 2015 after 25 years of living together, in Lohmar, northeast of Bonn.

Discography (selection)

  • 1969 - Tycker om dej
  • 1970 - Sylvia
  • 1971 - Dansa samba med mej
  • 1972 - Gamla stan
  • 1973 - Jag sjunger för dej
  • 1973 - Eviva España
  • 1974 - Sylvia & Göran på Nya Bacchi (with Göran Fristorp)
  • 1975 - Stardust & Sunshine
  • 1976 - Somebody loves you
  • 1977 - Free as wind and clouds
  • 1977 - Do that again
  • 1977 - Leenden i regn
  • 1979 - Chateau Sylvia
  • 1980 - In Goodmansland
  • 1985 - Rio de Janeiro blue
  • 1990 - Öppna dina ögon
  • 1992 - Ricardo
  • 1999 - Best of Sylvia
  • 2002 - Faller sponsored
  • 2005 - Sommar! Samba! Sylvia!
  • 2006 - Champagne
  • 2009 - Te quiero (collection box)
  • 2013 - Trivialitet
  • 2014 - MUSIC
  • 2017 - The girl from Uddevalla

literature

  • Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. P. 544. ISBN 1-904994-10-5 .
  • Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. P. 351. ISBN 0-214-20512-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart data SE
  2. ↑ Chart data UK
  3. ↑ Bröllopslycka: Sylvia Vrethammar omgift , Expressen , August 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Vrethammar, Sylvia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vrethammar, Eva Sylvia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Uddevalla , Sweden