Idha Övelius known professionally as Idha, is a Swedish singer/songwriter. She released two albums in the 1990s

1990s

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 on Creation Records

Creation Records

Creation Records was a British independent record label headed by Alan McGee. Along with Dick Green and Joe Foster, McGee founded Creation in 1983. The label lasted until its demise in 1999. The name came from the 1960s band The Creation , whom McGee greatly admired. McGee, Green and Foster were...

 - Melody Inn and Troublemaker.

Idha was married to guitarist Andy Bell

Andy Bell (musician)

Andrew Piran "Andy" Bell is a Welsh musician, currently playing guitar in the band Beady Eye. He is a songwriter, singer, producer, DJ and former member of the early 1990s shoegazing band, Ride, and later, Hurricane #1...

, co-founder of Ride

Ride (band)

Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...

 and former bassist of Oasis

Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...

, with whom she had two children, a daughter named Leia and a son named Leo. Bell co-wrote some of the songs on her debut album, Melody Inn, while former Small Faces member Ian McLagan

Ian McLagan

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 contributed keyboards to the album. Her 1994 EP

Extended play

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 A Woman in a Man's World featured guest appearances from both Evan Dando

Evan Dando

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 and Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother...

.

After a quiet couple of years, Idha returned in 1997 with her second album Troublemaker, again featuring Bell, alongside Tony Barber (of Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...

) and Alan White

Alan White (Oasis drummer)

Alan White is an English drummer, best known as being the drummer of the English rock group Oasis between 1995 and 2004, performing on four studio albums, two compilation albums and one live album. He joined the band in May 1995 after the band's original drummer Tony McCarroll was removed from...

. While her first album largely consisted of country-tinged, acoustic folk-rock, the second had a much fuller sound with the addition of horns and strings.

Idha currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her two children and has been retired from the music industry since 2000.

Singles

• "Get Undressed" (1994) Creation
• A Woman in a Man's World EP (1994) Creation
• "Sorry Sorry" (1997) Creation
• "Going Down South" (1997) Creation
• "Sweet September Rain" (1997) Creation

External links

• Idha's MySpace page
• [ Idha at the AllMusic guide]
• Robbins, Ira "Idha - Melody Inn review", Trouser Press
  Trouser Press
  Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" ...