Afro-dite is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 pop group made up of three pop singers. The group consists of Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

Blossom Tainton-Lindquist, born June 29, 1962 in Stockholm, is a Swedish singer, dancer, publisher, fitness coach and personal trainer.Her father Graham Tainton is a choreographer and she was raised in a showbiz environment. Tainton danced at an early age. She featured in musicals and had a very...

, Gladys del Pilar

Gladys del Pilar

-Career:Gladys mother noticed Gladys had an interest in music and made sure she attended a local music school.She was asked to provide back-up vocals for Big Deal, a popular local rock band. Gladys and the sound engineer at Big Deal’s recording studio formed the house music group Real Power. They...

 and Kayo Shekoni

Kayo Shekoni

Kayode Maria Söderberg Shekoni , better known as Kayo Shekoni, or just Kayo, is a Swedish pop/dance singer, TV personality and actress of Nigerian descent.-Career:...

. The name is a play on words implying they are beautiful as Greek goddess Aphrodite

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.Her Roman equivalent is the goddess .Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia....

 and being black.http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article61588.ab

• Blossom has already been in showbusiness for a long time. She sings and dances, played in several musicals and even hosted tv-shows on Swedish television.
• Gladys, born in Ecuador
  Ecuador
  Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
  
  , came to Sweden when she was only 7 years old. She worked with Dr. Alban
  Dr. Alban
  Alban Uzoma Nwapa , known by his stage name Dr. Alban, is a Nigerian, Sweden-based musician and producer with his own record label dr-records. His music can best be described as a Eurodance/hip-hop reggae with a dancehall style. He is most famous for his worldwide 1992 hit "It's My...
  
   and Denniz Pop
  Denniz Pop
  Dag Krister Volle , better known under the artistic name Denniz Pop , was a Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter....
  
   but her final breakthrough was when she appeared in ABBA
  ABBA
  ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
  
   - the true story.
• Kayo is another multitalented woman. She is not only a singer, but also an actress, tv-show host and model. In the eighties she sang with the pop group Freestyle
  Freestyle (Swedish band)
  Freestyle was a short lived Swedish electronic music group active in the early 1980s. The original line-up consisted of Tommy Ekman, Christer Sandelin, Gigi Hamilton, Joakim Hagleitner, Anders Uddberg and Kayo Shekoni, but Kayo left the group with the release of the fourth single Vill ha dej and...
  
   and in the ninetees she fronted the eurodance
  Eurodance
  Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
  
   project Le Click
  Le Click
  Le Click was a Eurodance duo created in Germany by the record producer, Frank Farian. Le Click consisted of Swedish singer Kayo Shekoni and rapper/singer Robert Haynes. In the UK, Le Click are considered to be one-hit wonders.-Career:Le Click's U.S...
  
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Afro-dite came together to sing the song "Never let it go" for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

. The song was originally meant to be sung by Alcazar

Alcazar (band)

Alcazar is a Swedish eurodance group which has established themselves as one of Sweden's most successful music groups with a string of hits since their debut single in 1999. Worldwide, Alcazar sold over 12 million records between 2001 and 2004...

but they refused. In Eurovision, Afro-dite reached the 8th place. In 2007 they released a new album.http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.976800/afro-dite-gor-comeback-i-jul