Melissa Horn
Encyclopedia
Astrid "Melissa" Edwarda Horn Weitzberg, known as Melissa Horn born 8 April 1987, is a Swedish
pop
artist
. She is the daughter of the singer Maritza Horn.
.
Melissa Horn also sang "Kungsholmens hamn" in memorial ceremony for the victims of 2011 Norway attacks
in Utöya and Oslo
.
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...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. She is the daughter of the singer Maritza Horn.
Career
Melissa Horn's debut album Långa nätter was released on 30 April 2008 followed by Säg ingenting till mig on 14 October 2009 that gave her a large audience, Grammy nominations, and became gold. A sequel to this album Innan jag kände dig was launched on 16 September 2011 and topped the Swedish Albums Chart in its first week of release. She is promoting it with a tour in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. All her releases are in SwedishSwedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
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Melissa Horn also sang "Kungsholmens hamn" in memorial ceremony for the victims of 2011 Norway attacks
2011 Norway attacks
The 2011 Norway attacks were two sequential terrorist attacks against the government, the civilian population and a summer camp in Norway on 22 July 2011....
in Utöya and Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
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Albums
| Album title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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| SWE Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
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| Långa nätter |
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| Säg ingenting till mig |
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| Innan jag kände dig |
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Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
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| 2007 | "Långa nätter" | — | Långa nätter | |
| 2008 | "En famn för mig" | — | ||
| "Som jag hade dig förut" (with Lars Winnerbäck Lars Winnerbäck Lars Mattias Winnerbäck , is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He was born in Stockholm, but spent his childhood in Linköping, where he attended Katedralskolan. He moved back to Stockholm in 1996, the same year he released his first album, Dans med svåra steg... ) |
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| 2009 | "Lät du henne komma närmre" | 20 | Säg ingenting till mig | |
| "Jag kan inte skilja på" | 52 | |||
| 2010 | "Falla fritt" | — | ||
| 2011 | "Innan jag kände dig" | — | Innan jag kände dig | |
| "Under löven" | 40 | |||
| "Jag saknar dig mindre och mindre" | 35 | |||
External links
- Official website
- Melissa on MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Melissa Horn on YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Intervju med Melissa Horn