Anna Book
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Anna Book is a Swedish
pop
singer. She participated in Let's Dance, the Swedish version of Dancing With The Stars
, in 2006 and finished in 2nd place.
Anna is currently hosting the talk show Let's Dance plus on TV4 Plus
where the last week's events in the main Let's Dance show are discussed.
She has participated in Melodifestivalen
, the contest to select Sweden's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest
, a total of three times.
At the first Melodifestivalen 2007
semifinal on 3 February in Jönköping
, Book's song "Samba Sambero" was the second song announced as a finalist. The song then went on and finished ninth and second last in the final, where it received one point.
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....
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer. She participated in Let's Dance, the Swedish version of Dancing With The Stars
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...
, in 2006 and finished in 2nd place.
Anna is currently hosting the talk show Let's Dance plus on TV4 Plus
TV4 Plus
Sjuan is a sister channel of Swedish TV4, owned by TV4 AB. The main focus of the channel is on entertainment, sports and lifestyle programmes. The channel started as TV4 Plus in 2003 but changed name to Sjuan in September 2011....
where the last week's events in the main Let's Dance show are discussed.
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...
, the contest to select Sweden's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
, a total of three times.
At the first Melodifestivalen 2007
Melodifestivalen 2007
Melodifestivalen 2007 was the selection for the 47th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 46th time that this system of picking a song has been used. Five semifinals took place to select the ten songs for the final, in Jönköping, Gothenburg, Örnsköldsvik, Gävle and a...
semifinal on 3 February in Jönköping
Jönköping
-Notable people:*Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor*John Bauer, illustrator, painter*Amy Diamond, singer*Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA*Carl Henrik Fredriksson, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Eurozine*Anders Gustafsson, kayaker, Olympian...
, Book's song "Samba Sambero" was the second song announced as a finalist. The song then went on and finished ninth and second last in the final, where it received one point.
| Year | Title | Placing | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | ABC | 5th (24 points) | |
| 1987 | Det Finns En Morgondag (There Is A Tomorrow) | Unplaced | |
| 2007 | Samba Sambero | 9th (one point) | Written by Thomas G:son Thomas G:son Thomas Gustafsson is a Swedish composer and musician from Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden, north-east of Göteborg. However, he is much more known nationally and internationally simply as Thomas G:son, his artistic name. Since 1998, Thomas has worked full time as a songwriter for the company G:songs... . |
Albums
- 1985 Killsnack - backing vocals by Lili & SusieLili & SusieLili & Susie is a Swedish pop duo composed of the sisters Lili Päivärinta and Susie Päivärinta. They scored a number of hit singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, their biggest hit being Oh Mama in 1987...
- 1986 Längtar
- 1995 Anna
- 2006 Let's Dance + 13 favoriter
- 2006 ABC
- 2007 Samba Sambero - includes "Samba Sombero" and the Swedish version of "Ven a bailar conmigoVen a bailar conmigo"Ven a bailar conmigo" was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, performed in English and Spanish by Guri Schanke....
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