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Alice Babs
Swedish jazz and schlager singer (–)
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| Birth name | Hildur Alice Nilson |
| Born | ()26 January Kalmar, Sweden |
| Died | 11 February () (aged&#;90) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
| Years active | – |
Musical artist
Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January – 11 February ), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer.
Filip Jers recieves Alice Babs Jazz scholarship, a prestigeous scholarship on 50.000 SEK. It was recieved during a concert in Stockholm Concert.
She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest In she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.
Career
After making her breakthrough in the film Swing it, magistern! ('Swing It, Teacher!', ),[2] she appeared in more than a dozen Swedish-language films. Despite being cast as the well-behaved, good-hearted, cheerful girl, the youth culture forming