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Career

Gladys mother noticed Gladys had an interest in music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

and made sure she attended a local music school.

She was asked to provide back-up vocals for Big Deal, a popular local rock band. Gladys and the sound engineer at Big Deal’s recording studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...

formed the house music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

group Real Power. They soon became associated with the Nordik beat

Nordik beat

-Origins:The Scandinavian electro-pop scene kickstarted with the invention of the Nordik Beat sound in Stockholm in the late 1980s. By merging the new technologies at the time, building small inexpensive studios armed with computers and samplers rather than traditional instruments and studio...

scene and signed to SweMix

Cheiron Studios

Cheiron Studios was a recording studio located at Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden founded in 1992 by Denniz PoP and Tom Talomaa. Cheiron Studios was apart from being a recording studio, also a label Cheiron Records in affiliation with BMG for a while, and the music publishing service Cheiron Songs...

Records. ‘’Real Power’’ released the single "Trust" which received plenty of radio play. She provided back-up vocals for many Nordik beat

Nordik beat

/SweMix

Cheiron Studios

acts such as Kayo

Kayo Shekoni

Kayode Maria Söderberg Shekoni , better known as Kayo Shekoni, or just Kayo, is a Swedish pop/dance singer, TV personality and actress of Nigerian descent.-Career:...

and DJ's.
Gladys began working with Denniz Pop

Denniz Pop

Dag Krister Volle , better known under the artistic name Denniz Pop , was a Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter....

and we wrote the single "Made Up My Mind" which became a huge hit and topped the charts. Dr. Alban

Dr. Alban

Alban Uzoma Nwapa , known by his stage name Dr. Alban, is a Nigerian, Sweden-based musician and producer with his own record label dr-records. His music can best be described as a Eurodance/hip-hop reggae with a dancehall style. He is most famous for his worldwide 1992 hit "It's My...

was the same record label, and toured in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

together with Gladys as a guest artist.

In 1992 she was named Best Newcomer at DJ Music Awards The following year she appeared on stage with Abba
Abba
ABBA is the name of a former Swedish pop music group.Abba may also refer to:* ABBA , a self-titled album by the Swedish pop music group ABBA* "Abba ", a song by Christian pop and rock artist, Rebecca St...

-the True Story at Berns, and Fame at the China Theater.

In 1994, Gladys was 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...

, the Swedish pre-selecton for 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...

and came in second with The most beautiful thing I know. The next year she performed as part of the cabaret Hot'n Tot up at Berns. It was Gladys, Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

Blossom Tainton-Lindquist, born June 29, 1962 in Stockholm, is a Swedish singer, dancer, publisher, fitness coach and personal trainer.Her father Graham Tainton is a choreographer and she was raised in a showbiz environment. Tainton danced at an early age. She featured in musicals and had a very...

, Vivian Cardinal, and Francesca Quartey. The show was a success and they took the show o the road and toured Sweden. She and Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

, would later collaborate on other projects.

Glads has performed on many recordings as part of a group, back up vocals or as a featured vocalist on house/club records. She released her first solo album, Movin 'On, on Eagle Records in 1996.
Since the late 90's Gladys visits various gospel choirs and lends his voice to Disney films. She works again with colleagues Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

Blossom Tainton-Lindquist

and Kayo Shekoni

Kayo Shekoni

Kayode Maria Söderberg Shekoni , better known as Kayo Shekoni, or just Kayo, is a Swedish pop/dance singer, TV personality and actress of Nigerian descent.-Career:...

as the group Afro-dite

Afro-dite

Afro-dite is a Swedish pop group made up of three pop singers. The group consists of Blossom Tainton-Lindquist, Gladys del Pilar and Kayo Shekoni. The name is a play on words implying they are beautiful as Greek goddess Aphrodite and being...

. At first they concentrated on the business job, but gradually it became even more public concerts.

She won Melodifestivalen 2002

Melodifestivalen 2002

Melodifestivalen 2002 was the selection for the 42nd song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 41st time that this system of picking a song had been used. Five semifinals had taken place to select the ten songs for the final, in Växjö, Norrköping, Sundsvall, Falun and a...

as a member of Afro-dite

Afro-dite

with the song Never Let It Go, and participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn

Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...

, Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

. The single sold platinum in a few months, and full length CD goes straight to 13th spot on the list of the 40 best-selling albums in Sweden.

After the victory in the Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen

, Afro-dite

Afro-dite

appeared again in the contest, in 2003 with the song Aqua Playa.

In the spring, Gladys left Afro-dite

Afro-dite

and began to work on her own with gospel and big bands all over Sweden

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....

. She participate in 2003 edition of the Stockholm Jazz Festival

Stockholm Jazz Festival

Stockholm Jazz Festival, established in 1980, is an annual jazz festival in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major summer event of Stockholm and it is spread over several venues across the city.-Overview:...

with gospel group Servants.

As a solo artist she entered the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

with Baby I Can not Stop. Afro-dite

Afro-dite

has since re-formed and does appearances and small tours in Sweden.

Gladys has a huge interest in food and owns and operates a food and music catering business.
She has also been featured in various Swedish television shows such as Så ska det låta, Postkodkampen cooking show Teatersupén .

In the last few years she has appeared in on stage in Carmen

Carmen

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

and Hairspray

Hairspray

Hairspray may refer to:* Hair spray, a personal grooming product* Hairspray , a film by John Waters** Hairspray , the film's soundtrack album* Hairspray , a stage musical based on the original film...

in Stockholm.

Personal life

Gladys and her twin sister Ann Consuelo were born in 1967 in Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

and grew up in a nunnery in northern Ecuador in difficult circumstances. They were adopted to Örebro

Örebro

-Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....

, Sweden

Sweden

at age 7.

External links

Gladys del Pilar Summer blogg

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