"Handen på hjärtat" 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....

 song by Lasse Holm

Lasse Holm

Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm, born 9 December 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden, is known as a composer, lyricist and singer.Since childhood, he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: Doug and the Millsmen, The Spacemen and The Moonlighters...

 (music) and Ingela Forsman

Ingela Forsman

Ingela Birgitta "Pling" Forsman is a Swedish lyricist in popular music. 1981–2009, 33 of her songs have competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen, three of them winners: Bra vibrationer , Se på mej and Kärleken är...

 (lyrics) performed by Sofia Källgren

Sofia Källgren

Anna Sofia Helena Källgren, known as Sofia Källgren , is a Swedish singer. She sings in two other languages, English and Mandarin Chinese, in addition to in Swedish....

 in Melodifestivalen 1990

Melodifestivalen 1990

Melodifestivalen 1990 was the contest for selection of the 30th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 29th time that this method of picking a song had been used. 1223 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition...

and finished in 4th place. Källgren was backed up by three dancers wearing partially furry suits

Fursuit

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The song charted on 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...

 for 18 weeks 1 April to 7 October 1990, peaking at no 3.

Cover by Björn Kjellman feat. Salome

Björn Kjellman

Björn Kjellman

John Björn Sture Kjellman , is a Swedish actor and singer. He has had roles in Swedish movies like Klassfesten and Livet är en schlager, in which he plays a Melodifestivalen-obsessed transsexual who is brother to Helena Bergström's character, who takes part in the Swedish Melodifestivalen in the...

 feat. Salome performed a slow version with updated lyrics by Jesper Winge Leisner and Søs Fenger for the soundtrack of the 2000 film Livet är en schlager

Livet är en schlager

Livet är en schlager is a Swedish film released in 2000, written by Jonas Gardell and written by his usual directing partner Susanne Bier. The film features cameo appearances by many Swedish singers...

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