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Velvet (singer)
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Jenny Marielle Pettersson (born November 5, 1975 in Helsingborg
, Sweden
), professionally known as Velvet is a Swedish
dance
-pop
singer. She has released two albums since her 2005 debut in the music industry and her first eight singles have all achieved a top twenty peak on the Swedish Singles Chart
.
to Stockholm
in 1993 to study ballet at Balettakademien. She soon took singing lessons at a dance school where she "got a voice". She worked at Wallmans cabaret where she discovered that singing was what she really wanted to do. She then toured for eight years as a choir singer and dancer to major artists such as Lena PH
, Markoolio
, Carola
, Sanne Salomonsen
, Orup
, Meat Loaf
, Martin Stenmarck
and Jessica Folcker
.
Velvet was also a part of the house choir for the Swedish Eurovision organisation for five years and traveled to the various Eurovision Song Contests across Europe.
. She stated that she came up with the name "Velvet" on her own after receiving what she referred to as "bad suggestions" from her record company. She settled on "Velvet" because she wanted to pick something that suited her and that she could stand for.
Velvet soon released her first single "Rock Down To (Electric Avenue)" which was a big hit in Sweden and internationally. The single, still frequently played in clubs across Sweden, reached number one in the Swedish Dance Charts for 22 weeks. Her follow-up single "Don't Stop Movin'" was also popular and was followed by a tour.
In 2006 Velvet entered Melodifestivalen
to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest
but lost the spot to Carola. She entered with the song "Mi Amore" which rapidly became a favourite and achieved great success internationally & became Song of the Year 2006 in Bulgaria. It remained high in charts in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Greece & Italy.
In this year Velvet released her debut album Finally.
In 2007 Velvet released her fourth single Fix Me which has been added to the re-release of Finally
. The song failed to chart as high as her previous singles in Poland and Russia, but became a big success in the US, peaking at #14.
Later in August she released her fifth single Chemistry, with it being the only one of her singles to chart in Finland.
Alongside her singing career, Velvet has also worked as a show producer for several Christmas galas around Sweden where she has also taken part as an artist.
In 2008 Velvet took part in Melodifestivalen again with the song "Deja Vu". Even though she received great reviews, as well as the song, she was knocked out in one of the semi-final rounds not even making the final. This was Velvet's second attempt to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
. "Deja Vu" was her most successful song in Sweden, but was her only single to not chart anywhere else but there.
After a strong presence in the UK club music scene for several years, "Fix Me" was officially released on August 11, 2008. Later that month, Velvet also released her new single "Take My Body Close" which reached #8 in Sweden and #14 in Poland.
"Chemistry" was released as a single in the US on November 11, 2008 as a digital download, followed by a physical release on November 25. It includes the original version of the song and four remixes, but failed to chart. A music video for the song was shot in London in December 2008, and the song will be released in UK sometime in 2009.
Velvet competed in Melodifestivalen 2009 singing "The Queen
" composed by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson. She was in the third semi-final in Leksand on 21 February 2009 but only came to 6th place. Her official website and her label Bonnier confirmed that her second album The Queen would be released on 18 March 2009. The album includes the singles "Fix Me", "Chemistry", Déjà Vu", "Take My Body Close", "The Queen" and "Come Into The Night".
In 2010 Velvet teamed up with PJ to record a cover version of Edward Maya
's "Stereo Love
".
Helsingborg
Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...
, 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....
), professionally known as Velvet 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....
dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
-pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer. She has released two albums since her 2005 debut in the music industry and her first eight singles have all achieved a top twenty peak on the Swedish Singles Chart
Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....
.
Early life
Velvet moved from HelsingborgHelsingborg
Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...
to Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
in 1993 to study ballet at Balettakademien. She soon took singing lessons at a dance school where she "got a voice". She worked at Wallmans cabaret where she discovered that singing was what she really wanted to do. She then toured for eight years as a choir singer and dancer to major artists such as Lena PH
Lena Philipsson
Maria Magdalena "Lena" Philipsson is a Swedish singer and media personality.-Career:...
, Markoolio
Markoolio
Marko Kristian "Markoolio" Lehtosalo is a Swedish-Finnish multi-platinum selling recording artist, singer, musician, songwriter, actor, and comedian...
, Carola
Carola Häggkvist
Carola Maria Häggkvist , better known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and occasional songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s, and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music...
, Sanne Salomonsen
Sanne Salomonsen
Sanne Salomonsen is a notable Danish singer. She has been performing since 1975, and various songs by her band Sneakers were on the charts continuously from 1979 to 1985...
, Orup
Orup
Orup is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and guitarist who enjoyed major success in his native country in the late 1980s and early 1990s with songs like "M.B.", "Då står pojkarna på rad", "Magaluf", "Stockholm" and "Regn hos mej." Orup has also written several songs for other performers...
, Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor...
, Martin Stenmarck
Martin Stenmarck
Martin Olof Jon Stenmarck is a Swedish singer and voice actor. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with Las Vegas, finishing 19th with 30 points....
and Jessica Folcker
Jessica Folcker
Jessica Folcker born , is a Swedish singer.-Biography:Folcker was born as Jessica Elisabeth Angelique Folcker in Täby, a Stockholm suburb, on . Her mother is Swedish and her father is from Senegal....
.
Velvet was also a part of the house choir for the Swedish Eurovision organisation for five years and traveled to the various Eurovision Song Contests across Europe.
Music
Velvet was discovered in 2005 and signed with Bonnier Amigo Music GroupBonnier Amigo Music Group
Cosmos Music Group is an independent record company based in Stockholm, Sweden.Bonnier Amigo Music Group was formed in 2001 when record company and distributor Amigo Musik merged with record company Bonnier Music. BAMG claims to be the biggest independent record company in Scandinavia with a...
. She stated that she came up with the name "Velvet" on her own after receiving what she referred to as "bad suggestions" from her record company. She settled on "Velvet" because she wanted to pick something that suited her and that she could stand for.
Velvet soon released her first single "Rock Down To (Electric Avenue)" which was a big hit in Sweden and internationally. The single, still frequently played in clubs across Sweden, reached number one in the Swedish Dance Charts for 22 weeks. Her follow-up single "Don't Stop Movin'" was also popular and was followed by a tour.
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...
to represent Sweden at the 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...
but lost the spot to Carola. She entered with the song "Mi Amore" which rapidly became a favourite and achieved great success internationally & became Song of the Year 2006 in Bulgaria. It remained high in charts in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Greece & Italy.
In this year Velvet released her debut album Finally.
In 2007 Velvet released her fourth single Fix Me which has been added to the re-release of Finally
Finally (Velvet album)
Finally is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Velvet first released on March 20, 2006 on Bonnier Amigo. Finally peaked at #46 in the Swedish charts and dropped off the chart after just one week.-Singles:...
. The song failed to chart as high as her previous singles in Poland and Russia, but became a big success in the US, peaking at #14.
Later in August she released her fifth single Chemistry, with it being the only one of her singles to chart in Finland.
Alongside her singing career, Velvet has also worked as a show producer for several Christmas galas around Sweden where she has also taken part as an artist.
In 2008 Velvet took part in Melodifestivalen again with the song "Deja Vu". Even though she received great reviews, as well as the song, she was knocked out in one of the semi-final rounds not even making the final. This was Velvet's second attempt to represent Sweden in the 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...
. "Deja Vu" was her most successful song in Sweden, but was her only single to not chart anywhere else but there.
After a strong presence in the UK club music scene for several years, "Fix Me" was officially released on August 11, 2008. Later that month, Velvet also released her new single "Take My Body Close" which reached #8 in Sweden and #14 in Poland.
"Chemistry" was released as a single in the US on November 11, 2008 as a digital download, followed by a physical release on November 25. It includes the original version of the song and four remixes, but failed to chart. A music video for the song was shot in London in December 2008, and the song will be released in UK sometime in 2009.
Velvet competed in Melodifestivalen 2009 singing "The Queen
The Queen (song)
"The Queen" is a 2009 pop song performed by the Swedish singer Velvet written by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson. It competed in the third Semi-Final of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen 2009 on February 21, 2009 at the Ejendals Arena, but failed to advance to the Final.-Charts:The song...
" composed by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson. She was in the third semi-final in Leksand on 21 February 2009 but only came to 6th place. Her official website and her label Bonnier confirmed that her second album The Queen would be released on 18 March 2009. The album includes the singles "Fix Me", "Chemistry", Déjà Vu", "Take My Body Close", "The Queen" and "Come Into The Night".
In 2010 Velvet teamed up with PJ to record a cover version of Edward Maya
Edward Maya
Eduard Marian Ilie , better known as Edward Maya, is a Romanian musician, producer, performer, and composer...
's "Stereo Love
Stereo Love
"Stereo Love" is a 2009 song recorded by Romanian musician Edward Maya featuring Vika Jigulina, released as his debut single in late 2009 from his album The Stereo Love Show. The refrain is from "Bayatılar", composed by Azerbaijani musician Eldar Mansurov...
".
Albums
| Year | Album | Sweden Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
Norway | Poland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peak | Peak | Peak | ||
| 2006 2006 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band.... |
Finally Finally (Velvet album) Finally is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Velvet first released on March 20, 2006 on Bonnier Amigo. Finally peaked at #46 in the Swedish charts and dropped off the chart after just one week.-Singles:... |
46 | – | – |
| 2009 2009 in music The following is a list of notable events and releases in 2009 in music. Susan Boyle's album I Dreamed a Dream became the biggest selling album in the world for 2009, selling 8.3 million copies in five weeks; more than any other artist's in the whole year... |
The Queen | 33 | 17 | 59 |
Singles
| Year | Title | Album | Chart Positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE 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.... |
FIN Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... |
PT Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... |
RUS Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... |
ROM Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea... |
US Hot Dance Hot Dance Airplay Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it... |
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| 2005 | "Rock Down To (Electric Avenue) Electric Avenue (song) "Electric Avenue" is a song by Eddy Grant, from his 1982 album Killer on the Rampage. It was released as a single in 1982, and went on to be very popular, reaching #2 on both United States and United Kingdom singles charts... " |
Finally Finally (Velvet album) Finally is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Velvet first released on March 20, 2006 on Bonnier Amigo. Finally peaked at #46 in the Swedish charts and dropped off the chart after just one week.-Singles:... |
6 | — | 19 | 6 | — | — |
| 2006 | "Don’t Stop Moving" | 8 | — | — | 46 | — | — | |
| "Mi Amore" | 5 | — | — | 6 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | "Fix Me" | The Queen | 7 | — | — | 132 | — | 14 |
| "Chemistry" | 8 | 6 | — | — | 3 | — | ||
| 2008 | "Déjà Vu" | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Take My Body Close" | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2009 | "The Queen The Queen (song) "The Queen" is a 2009 pop song performed by the Swedish singer Velvet written by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson. It competed in the third Semi-Final of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen 2009 on February 21, 2009 at the Ejendals Arena, but failed to advance to the Final.-Charts:The song... " |
13 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Come Into the Night" | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2010 | "Victorious" (with Linda Bengtzing Linda Bengtzing Linda Birgitta Bengtzing is a Swedish pop singer, famous for her participation in the fourth season of Fame Factory in Sweden and for her entries at Melodifestivalen 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2011- Biography :... ) |
Digital single Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
15 | — | — | — | — | — |
| "My Destiny" | The Queen | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2011 | "Love Struck" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |