Lisa Ekdahl
Best known in Scandinavia for her 1994 hit "Vem Vet, " Lisa Ekdahl
became one of the top Swedish pop singers of the 1990s but also
records and performs straightahead jazz. Ekdahl's pop albums have
been in Swedish, while her acoustic jazz albums have favored
English-language standards. The thin-voiced singer was born and
raised in Stockholm, where in 1990, she started singing jazz with
the trio of pianist Peter Nordahl. In 1994, her self-titled debut
album came out in Sweden, and it was that year that her single "Vem
Vet" (which is Swedish for "Who Knows") made her a superstar in
Scandinavia at the age of 23. Ekdahl's subsequent pop albums in
Sweden included Med Kroppen Mot Jorden in 1996 and Bortom Det Bla
in 1997. The singer's first English-language effort, When Did You
Leave Heaven, was also her first jazz album and the first Ekdahl
album to come out in the U.S. When Did You Leave Heaven was a big
seller in Sweden, but the album (which came out on RCA Victor in
the U.S.) received its share of negative reviews from American jazz
critics, who felt that Ekdahl's thin, very girlish voice was wrong
for standards and straightahead jazz and argued that she should
stick to pop. Her next jazz recording, Back to Earth, came out in
1999. ~ Alex Henderson Similar artists
Albums
Vocal Jazz - Released November 9, 2018 | Okeh
Vocal Jazz - Released October 27, 2014 | Jive Epic
Pop/Rock - Released November 20, 2009 | RCA Victor
Pop - Released February 17, 2017 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
Jazz - Released February 2, 1998 | RCA Records Label
Pop - Released December 11, 2016 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
Jazz - Released August 31, 2018 | Okeh
Jazz - Released October 19, 2018 | Okeh
Pop - Released December 5, 2016 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
Pop - Released November 7, 2016 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
Pop - Released December 12, 2016 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
Pop - Released November 14, 2016 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
Pop - Released October 31, 2016 | Lisa Ekdahl AB
