Edin-Ådahl were 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....

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Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...

 group from 1977 to 1994, composed of brothers Bertil & Lasse Edin and Simon & Frank Ådahl. The group are most well known for their 1990 hit "Som en vind

Som en vind

"Som en vind" , written by Mikael Wendt, is a song performed by Edin-Ådahl. It was the Melodifestivalen 1990 winning song and subsequently the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 where it finished 16th....

" (Like a Wind). It won the 1990 Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

 and went on to place sixteenth at the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1990

The Eurovision Song Contest 1990, the 35th in the series, was held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia on 5 May 1990. The presenters were Helga Vlahović Brnobić and Oliver Mlakar. Toto Cutugno was the winner of this contest with the song "Insieme: 1992"...

. The following year, they placed second in the Melodifestivalen. Simon Ådahl participated in 1995 together with Lasse Edin. Another song, "Revival", rose to No. 3 in Sweden's radio charts.

Their English albums had similar production quality when compared to secular albums, but suffered from poor distribution and "lousy lyrics".

Frank Ådahl was the voice of Simba in the Swedish version of the 1994 animated film The Lion King

The Lion King

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...

. Two of the brothers released solo albums on Refuge in 1985. Bertil Edin released Cross The Border, and Simon Ådahl I'm In Touch. Lasse Edin formed a band called The Outsiders in 1990.

Swedish releases

• Edin-Ådahl, (Prim) 1980
• Alibi, (CBS/Royal) 1982
• Maktfaktor, (Royal) 1983
• Tecken, (Prim) 1986
• Big Talk, (Royal/Cantio) 1989
• Into My Soul, (Cantio) 1990
• Reser Till Kärlek, (Cantio) 1991
• Kosmonaut Gagarins Rapport, (Viva) 1992
• Minnen: 1980—1992, (Viva) 1994
• Komplett, (Media Point) 2009

English releases

• Alibi, (Refuge) 1983
• X-Factor, (Refuge) 1984
• Miracle, (Refuge) 1987
• Big Talk, (Royal Music/Refuge) (1989)
• Into My Soul, (Alarma World Music) (1990)
• Revival, (Alarma World Music/Cantio) (1991)