Alice Babs
Birthday
1924/01/26
Day of death
2014/02/11 (90 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
Also know as
Alice Sjöblom, Hildur Alice Nilson
Biography
Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. 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 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.
Acting
(2004) Swing it Alice!
as Self
(1993) Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
(1958) Musik ombord
as Ulla Wickström
(1956) Swing it, fröken
as Alice Lind
(1959) Swinging at the Castle
as Inga "Trollet" Larsson
(1953) I dur och skur
as Greta Norman
(1942) Our Gang
as Alice Bergendahl
(1953) Resan till dej
as Gunborg Karlsson
(1995) Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)
(1941) Magistrarna på sommarlov
as Inga Danell
(1940) 'Swing It' Teacher
as Inga Danell
(1953) Kungen av Dalarna
as ---
(1938) Thunder and Lightning
as ---
(1955) Swedish Girl
as ---
(1952) H.C. Andersens sagor
as ---
(2016) När molnen skingras
as Self
(1952) Drömsemester
as Alice Babs
(1947) Song of Stockholm
as Britt Forsberg
(1944) Young Eagles
as Marianne Hedvall
(1946) Det glada kalaset
as Guest house guest, jazz singer
(1942) A Singing Girl
as Inger Babs Jansson
(1968) Det hopfällbara slottet
as Mother
(1959) Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel
as herself
(1956) Symphonie in Gold
as Singer
(2007) Alice Babs - Swing It!
as Herself
(1945) Skådetennis
as Herself
(1950) Terras fönster 4
as ---
(1954) Bitte recht freundlich
as Self
(1997) Så ska det låta
as Self