Charlotte Jean "Lotta" Hedlund, born March 10, 1944 as Charlotte Jean Walker, is an African-American singer living in Sweden

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....

 since the late 1960s.

Biography

She started her career in the girlgroup Sherrys. The Sherrys toured Sweden with Swedish rock singer Jerry Williams

Jerry Williams (singer)

Jerry Williams, real name Sven Erik Fernström, is a Swedish rock and roll singer and actor.In 1963, Jerry Williams toured with the Beatles through Sweden. He has been lead singer in many Swedish rock and roll bands, but is mostly known as a solo artist...

, and after one of the gigs they met up with Hep Stars

Hep Stars

The Hep Stars was a Swedish rock group, formed in 1963. During 1965-1966 the band was the most successful of contemporary 1960s Swedish pop groups performing in English language...

, Swedens most successful group of the 1960s. One of the members was Benny Andersson

Benny Andersson

Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...

 (later of ABBA fame), another was Sven "Svenne" Hedlund - and they got romantically involved.

She joined her husband by becoming a member of Hep Stars

Hep Stars

The Hep Stars was a Swedish rock group, formed in 1963. During 1965-1966 the band was the most successful of contemporary 1960s Swedish pop groups performing in English language...

 and later as a singer duo Svenne & Lotta

Svenne & Lotta

Svenne & Lotta is a pop duo with Svenne Hedlund and Lotta Hedlund. They met in 1967, when Svenne Hedlund was the vocalist in the band Hep Stars. Charlotte Walker, which was Lotta Hedlund's name at that time, toured Sweden with the all-girl American trio The Sherrys...

 in the 1970s, called "Sven & Charlotte" in certain countries.

Svenne & Lotta competed in the Swedish heats for Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

, 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...

, in 1975, with a song penned by the men of ABBA, called "Bang en boomerang

Bang en boomerang

"Bang-A-Boomerang" is a song by ABBA, first released by Svenne & Lotta . The track was first recorded as a demo with English lyrics in September 1974 by the ABBA musicians for their forthcoming eponymous album ABBA...

", and also recorded the song in English and had a hit in several European countries with "Bang a boomerang". ABBA later covered the song as an album track.

Svenne & Lotta went to become one of the best selling groups of all times in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, and even recorded a single in Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

.

Lotta and her family lives in Sävsjö

Sävsjö

Sävsjö is a locality and the seat of Sävsjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 5,068 inhabitants in 2005.-Geography:Sävsjö is located on the main line railway between Stockholm and Malmö...

 in Småland

Småland

' is a historical province in southern Sweden.Småland borders Blekinge, Scania or Skåne, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means Small Lands. . The latinized form Smolandia has been used in other languages...

 in southern Sweden. Both she and her husband are still touring Sweden as a duo as well as solo artists, and are considered a cult act.

Discography - commercially available solo records

• Bad Girl (CD-single, 2007. Recorded in Philadelphia and Stockholm).

See also discographies of Sherrys, Hep Stars

Hep Stars

The Hep Stars was a Swedish rock group, formed in 1963. During 1965-1966 the band was the most successful of contemporary 1960s Swedish pop groups performing in English language...

, Svenne & Lotta

Svenne & Lotta

Svenne & Lotta is a pop duo with Svenne Hedlund and Lotta Hedlund. They met in 1967, when Svenne Hedlund was the vocalist in the band Hep Stars. Charlotte Walker, which was Lotta Hedlund's name at that time, toured Sweden with the all-girl American trio The Sherrys...

, Sven & Charlotte.

Personal life

Lotta is married with Swedish singer Svenne Hedlund

Svenne Hedlund

Sven Ove "Svenne" Hedlund, born 1 March 1945, Solna, is Swedish pop singer.Svenne Hedlund sang in the Swedish bands Clifftones and Hep Stars in the 1960s...

(Sven Hedlund) since 1967.