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  • Sylvia Vrethammar
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  • Sylvia Vrethammar
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  • Female
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  • Living people
  • Easy listening music
  • 1945 births
  • Melodifestivalen contestants
  • Swedish female singers
  • Swedish pop singers
  • People from Uddevalla Municipality
  • Swedish jazz singers
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  • Born August 22, 1945 in Uddevalla, Sweden.Swedish pop artist, who began her career in 1969, with varying styles of music including swing jazz, Latin American rhythms and cover versions. She represented Sweden in the V Festival Internacional da Canção in Rio with the song The Sweet Life in 1970.
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  • Eva Sylvia Vrethammar (born August 22, 1945, Uddevalla, Sweden), is a Swedish traditional pop and jazz singer. She is the daughter of Harald Vrethammar, an education official, and Britta Vrethammar, a musical education teacher, specializing in the piano.In 1969, she released a Swedish-language cover version of Dusty Springfields Son of a Preacher Man, entitled En lärling på våran gård. She is best known for the 1974 song, %22Y Viva España%22. It reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1974, spending over six months in that listing. She was known in the UK simply as Sylvia. Globally her version alone sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.She took part in Melodifestivalen 2002, singing %22Hon är en annan nu%22. She participated again in Melodifestivalen 2013 in the hope of representing Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 which was held in Malmö. She sang her song %22Trivialitet%22 in the fourth semifinal, which was also held in Malmö. She came seventh, therefore she was eliminated from the contest.
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  • Sylvia
  • Sylvia (Vrethammar)
  • Sylvia V
  • Sylvia Vrethammer
  • Sylvie V
  • Сильвия Вретхаммер
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  • 56d97748cc2ddd0c0f6bc376
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  • 1945-08-22
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  • 75597
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  • 365702
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  • Sylvia Vrethammar
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  • Sonet
  • Polydor
  • Warner Music Group
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  • Samba
  • Pop
  • Jazz
  • Ballad
  • Bossa Nova
  • World Music
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