Jenny Wilson (singer)

Jenny Wilson
Background information
Born October 20, 1975
Blekinge, Sweden
Associated acts The Knife, First Floor Power
Website Currently not available

Jenny Wilson is a Swedish singer-songwriter, born on October 20, 1975 in Blekinge, Sweden.[1] She founded the band First Floor Power in 1997 and released two albums, There Is Hope and Nerves, before leaving the band to go solo around 2004. She studied graphic design at Konstfack for one year. Her music has a distinct style influenced by electro.

Jenny Wilson was signed to The Knife's Rabid Records, and was a guest vocalist on The Knife's album Deep Cuts[2] on the song You Take My Breath Away which is about The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson going to a First Floor Power show. Wilson is also featured in the music video for the song.

Wilson's debut solo album Love and Youth was released in 2005 in Sweden and then, in August 2006, in Australia on Hussle Recordings' album imprint (later to launch independently as etcetc). The first single from the album, Summertime – The Roughest Time, received extensive airplay on Triple J.

In November 2006, Wilson appeared on Robyn's promotional The Rakamonie EP, featuring in a live recording of the song List of Demands.

On February 25, 2009, Wilson self-released her second solo album Hardships! on CD and vinyl.

In January 2010 Wilson won a European Border Breakers Award for her international success.[3]

In 2011 Wilson released her third album Blazing; a re-recorded counterpart to her previous album Hardships!.

In the summer of 2010 Jenny Wilson was diagnosed with breast cancer. After undergoing chemotherapy she is now in remission. [4]

Wilson made a short film Beyond that Wasteland[5] with director Daniel Wirtberg in 2011; it was filmed in Iceland and premiered in Sweden in October of 2012.

Wilson began work on her fourth album Demand The Impossible in 2012 after finishing a Scandinavian tour for her previous album Blazing. However, she then found out that her cancer had returned. She continued to work on the new album whilst undergoing treatment and then during the recovery process.[6] Demand The Impossible was released in 2013.

Discography

Year Album Peak positions Certification
SWE
[7]
2005 Love and Youth 26
2009 Hardships! 7
2011 Blazing  –
2013 Demand the Impossible! 17

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ "Jenny Wilson". Rage. 2007-06-23. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  3. ↑ "European Border Breakers Awards 2010", Ec.europa.eu. Retrieved February 21, 2012
  4. ↑ http://blogg.cancerfonden.se/blog/2013/03/05/jenny-wilson-om-cancern-och-superkraften/?fb_action_ids=10151269414057130&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map=%7B%2210151269414057130%22%3A130820177097214%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151269414057130%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2291046/
  6. ↑ Interview with The 405: http://www.thefourohfive.com/news/article/jenny-wilson-interviewed-the-scar-is-my-autobiography
  7. ↑ "Jenny Wilson discography". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 November 2013.

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