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Amanda Jenssen

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Jenny Amanda Katarina Jenssen (born 12 September 1988), known professionally as Amanda Jenssen, is a Swedish singer and songwriter who first rose to prominence as the Swedish Idol 2007 runner-up. [1]

73 relations: Acoustic music, Aftonbladet, Alicia Keys, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Arthur Crudup, Ö3 Austria Top 40, Baby Can I Hold You, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Björn Yttling, Bob Dylan, Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, Compact disc, Damn (band), Disco Inferno, Do You Love Me? (Amanda Jenssen song), Dream a Little Dream of Me, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, English language, Epic Records, Ericsson Globe, GfK Entertainment Charts, Guitar, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song), Happyland (album), Hymns for the Haunted, Idol 2007 (Sweden), Indie rock, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, ITunes Store, Jazz, Just a Girl, Killing My Darlings, Leonard Cohen, List of music recording certifications, Lund, Marie Picasso, Marit Bergman, Mark James (songwriter), Melanie (singer), Miss Li, Music download, När vi gräver guld i USA, No Doubt, No One (Alicia Keys song), Ola Salo, Orup, Privileged (TV series), ..., Ray Davies, Så mycket bättre, Singing, Soft Cell, Sony BMG, Sony Music, Soul music, Stockholm, Suspicious Minds, Sverigetopplistan, Sweden, Swiss Hitparade, Tainted Love, That's All Right, The Gambia, The Kinks, The Trammps, The Velvet Underground, The Wannadies, Tracy Chapman, TV4 (Sweden), Vincent Pontare, You Really Got Me. Expand index (23 more) »

Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet is a Swedish evening newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter.

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American Horror Story: Freak Show

American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story.

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Arthur Crudup

Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Baby Can I Hold You

"Baby Can I Hold You" is the third single released by the American contemporary folk artist Tracy Chapman, released in late 1988.

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Björn Yttling

Björn Daniel Arne Yttling (born October 16, 1974 in Umeå, Sweden) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter, and musician.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Born to Run

Born to Run is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Damn (band)

Damn! is a funk-rock band based in Lund, Sweden.

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Disco Inferno

"Disco Inferno" is a song by American disco band The Trammps from their 1976 fourth studio album of the same name.

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Do You Love Me? (Amanda Jenssen song)

"Do You Love Me?" is a song written by Vincent Pontare, and recorded by Amanda Jenssen on her 2008 album Killing my Darlings.

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Dream a Little Dream of Me

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" is a 1931 song with music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt and lyrics by Gus Kahn.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Ericsson Globe

Ericsson Globe (originally known as Stockholm Globe Arena, commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (The Globe) is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden. The Ericsson Globe is the largest hemispherical building on Earth and took two and a half years to build. Shaped like a large white ball, it has a diameter of 110 meters (361 feet) and an inner height of 85 meters (279 feet). The volume of the building is 605,000 cubic meters (21,188,800 cubic feet). It has a seating capacity of 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts, and 13,850 for ice hockey. It represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).

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Happyland (album)

Happyland is the second album by Swedish singer Amanda Jenssen, who finished second in Idol 2007.

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Hymns for the Haunted

Hymns for the Haunted is the third studio album by Swedish recording artist Amanda Jenssen.

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Idol 2007 (Sweden)

The fourth season of Swedish Idol premiered on September 3, 2007 and continued until its grand finale on 7 December, when 28-year-old Marie Picasso was crowned winner.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Just a Girl

"Just a Girl" is a song by the American ska band No Doubt from their third studio album Tragic Kingdom (1995).

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Killing My Darlings

Killing My Darlings is the debut album of Swedish singer Amanda Jenssen, who rose to fame in Idol 2007.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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List of music recording certifications

Music recording certifications are typically awarded by the global music industry based on the total units sold, streamed, or shipped to retailers.

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Lund

Lund is a city in the province of Scania, southern Sweden.

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Marie Picasso

Marie Picasso (born Lilly Marie Pettersson on 24 April 1979) is a Swedish singer, host and model who first rose to fame as a housemate on the popular reality television show Big Brother, before going on to win the fourth series of the Swedish singing competition Idol.

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Marit Bergman

Liv-Marit Bergman (born 21 May 1975) is a Swedish pop musician.

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Mark James (songwriter)

Mark James (born Francis Rodney Zambon, 1940) is an American songwriter who wrote hits for singers B.J. Thomas, Brenda Lee, and Elvis Presley, most notably Presley's last U.S. number one hit single, "Suspicious Minds.".

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Melanie (singer)

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Miss Li

Linda Karlsson (born July 21, 1982), better known by her stage name Miss Li, is a Swedish singer and songwriter.

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Music download

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

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När vi gräver guld i USA

När vi gräver guld i USA also known with its English language title "When We Dig for Gold in the USA" was a song which was used as fight song for the Swedish national team during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, where Sweden ended up third.

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No Doubt

No Doubt is an American ska band from Anaheim, California, that formed in 1986.

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No One (Alicia Keys song)

"No One" is a song by American singer and songwriter Alicia Keys from her third studio album, As I Am (2007).

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Ola Salo

Ola Salo (born Rolf Ola Anders Svensson; 19 February 1977, Avesta, Sweden) is the Swedish rock vocalist of the Swedish glam rock band The Ark.

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Orup

Thomas Eriksson better known by his stage name Orup (born November 29, 1958 in Huddinge) 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 Jag blir hellre jagad av vargar, Regn hos mig, "M.B.", "Då står pojkarna på rad", "Magaluf", and "Stockholm".

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Privileged (TV series)

Privileged is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on The CW in the United States and City in Canada from September 9, 2008.

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Ray Davies

Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, (born 21 June 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Så mycket bättre

Så mycket bättre ("So Much Better") is a Swedish reality television show that airs on TV4 as a local version of the original Dutch "Best Singers of Holland" series.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.

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Sony BMG

Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Suspicious Minds

"Suspicious Minds" is a song written and first recorded by American songwriter Mark James.

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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, earlier known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swiss Hitparade

The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) are Switzerland's main music sales charts.

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Tainted Love

"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.

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That's All Right

"That's All Right" is a song written and originally performed by blues singer Arthur Crudup.

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The Gambia

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Trammps

The Trammps were an American disco and soul band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands.

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).

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The Wannadies

The Wannadies were an alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Skellefteå, northern Sweden.

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Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, known for her hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason", along with other singles "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "New Beginning" and "Telling Stories".

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TV4 (Sweden)

TV4 is a Swedish television network.

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Vincent Pontare

Vincent Pontare (born 13 May 1980) is a multiple Swedish Grammy Award winning songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Sweden.

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You Really Got Me

"You Really Got Me" is a song written by Ray Davies for English rock band the Kinks.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Jenssen

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