Anders Engbergs 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....

 dansband

Dansband

Dansband is a Swedish term for a band that plays dansbandsmusik . Dansbandsmusik is often danced to in pairs. Jitterbug and foxtrot music are often included in this category. The music is primarily inspired by swing, schlager, country, jazz, and rock...

, formed in 1994 when "Lotta & Anders Engbergs Orkester

Lotta & Anders Engbergs Orkester

Lotta & Anders Engbergs Orkester was a dansband in Skara, Sweden which was active during the years 1989-1994, with Lotta Engberg as singer. She formed the band in 1989 with her former husband Anders Engberg, who already had a band in his own name. In 1993, the band was awarded a Grammis...

" split up in two, Anders Engbergs and Lotta Engbergs

Lotta Engbergs

Lotta Engbergs was a dansband in Skara, Sweden. The band was formed in 1994, when Lotta Engberg left Lotta & Anders Engbergs Orkester. The band was, in its early days, known as Lotta Engbergs Orkester, which later was shortened to just Lotta Engbergs...

, three years after the divorce

Divorce

Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...

 of husband Anders Engberg and wife Lotta Engberg

Lotta Engberg

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. Anders Engbergs had also been the name of the unsplit band prior to Lotta Engberg joining it in 1989. One of the more famous singers in its lineup up to 1988 was Stefan Borsch

Stefan Borsch

Stefan Borsch, born 19 January 1947 in Hagfors, Sweden, is a Swedish dansband singer. At first, he sang for Swedish dansband Öijwinds, and from 1973 for the dansband Vikingarna, which he left in 1979. After this, he began a solo career. He participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1985 with the...

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Björn Hedström, who was one of Anders Engbergs' singers, participated in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1995

Melodifestivalen 1995

Melodifestivalen 1995 was the selection for the 35th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 34th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 986 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition...

 with the song "Du är drömmen jag drömt". Anders Engbergs had some Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen is a record chart at Sveriges Radio. Until January 2003, the songs had to be in the Swedish language. Svensktoppen has aired since 1962, except for the years 1982-1985. Svensktoppen airs once a week...

 hits, but never achieved the same level of successes as Lotta Engbergs.

Charlotte Perrelli

Charlotte Perrelli

Charlotte Perrelli is a Swedish singer and occasional television host, perhaps most famous for winning the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven."Since then she has released six singles and five albums...

 (then known as Charlotte Nilsson) had her breakthrough while in this band, laying the foundation for her later successes in Melodifestivalen

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...

 as a solo artist.

Another member was Martin Rydnemalm, who later played the guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 and saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 in Kim & Hallo.

In 1998 the band won the contest "Dansbandslåten" with the song "När kärleken slår till".

Svensktoppen songs

• Glöm inte bort - 1994
• Du är drömmen jag drömt - 1995
• Ge dej tid - 1995
• Glöm inte bort - 1994
• Av hela mitt hjärta - 1996
• Kärleken i dina ögon - 1998
• När kärleken slår till - 1999
• Tusen år - 2000

Songs failing to enter the chart

• En blå sommardag - 1997
• Minnenas värld - 1997
• Är du min nu - 1999
• Det är sommaren som vaknat - 1999