Lucia Bride of Sweden

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National Lucia Bride of Sweden (in Swedish: Sveriges Lucia) is a competition for Swedish females. The contest is usually held in churches or in the Swedish open air museum Skansen.

The first competition took part in 1948, but no information is available until 1973.

The competition takes place December 13th (St. Lucia's Day) and the contestants, two runner ups and the winner sing Christmas carols during Christmas Day.

The competition is based on personal interviews and voice capacity of singing gospels and carols.

Yvonne Ryding, titleholder of the 1983 contest, also took part in the Miss Sweden pageant the following year and went to win Miss Universe.

In December 13 2008, the current titleholder, Madeleine Gustafsson, will crown the new winner.

[edit] Past winners

Year	Lucia Bride	Presenter
1973	May Gret Andersson	Princess Christina
1974	Anne Olofsdotter	Nils Erik Baehrendtz
1975	Birgitta Lindvall	Liv Ullmann
1976	Liselotte Cargain	Saul Bellow
1977	Maria Sandahl	Bertil Ohlin
1978	Elisabeth Bernhoff	Ola Ullsten
1979	Gunilla Nilsson	Britt Mogård
1980	Monica Rydell	Jan Erik Wikström
1981	Laura Wessberg	Kai Siegbahn
1982	Carina Vogestedt	Kai Siegbahn
1983	Yvonne Ryding	William Golding
1984	Cecilia Gullin	Ingemund Bengtsson
1985	Cecilia Ericsson	Sten Andersson
1986	Martina Jansson	Anders Wijkman
1987	Annelie Ericsson	Astrid Lindgren
1988	Sophie Andersson	Cyndee Peters
1989	Anna Kohlström	Alice Babs
1990	Anna Jansson	Princess Christina
1991	Monica Andreasson	Eva Nordenson
1992	Linda Olofsson	Derek Walcott
1993	Victoria Reichel	Ulf Adelsohn
1994	Lisa Almgren	Hans Alfredson
1995	Camilla Johansson	Börje Ahlstedt
1996	Therése Nilsson	Marita Ulvskog
1997	Linda Harritz	Ulf Adelsohn
1998	Jenny Åkerström	Peter Harrysson
1999	Linda Pettersson	Herman Lindqvist
2000	Amanda Gustafsson	Anna Maria Bildt
2001	Linda Cahling	Thomas Di Leva
2002	Emma Johannesson	Bibi Andersson
2003	Therése Andersson	Lars Berghagen
2004	Karin Westerberg	Leif Pagrotsky
2005	Isolde Palombo	Michael Nyqvist
2006	Jennie Samuelsson	Ernst Billgren
2007	Madeleine Gustafsson	Paolo Roberto