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Alice Babs

Alice Babs

Birthday: 1924-01-26 | Place of Birth: Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden

Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2007
Alice Babs - Swing It!

as    Herself

1993
Minns ni?

as    (archive footage)

1968
Det hopfällbara slottet

as    Mother

1958
Musik ombord

as    Ulla Wickström

1956
Swing it, fröken

as    Alice Lind

1953
I dur och skur

as    Greta Norman

1953
Resan till dej

as    Gunborg Karlsson

1952
Drömsemester

as    Alice Babs

1947
Song of Stockholm

as    Britt Forsberg

1946
Det glada kalaset

as    Guest house guest, jazz singer

1944
Young Eagles

as    Marianne Hedvall

1942
Our Gang

as    Alice Bergendahl

1942
A Singing Girl

as    Inger Babs Jansson

1941
Magistrarna på sommarlov

as    Inga Danell

1940
'Swing It' Teacher

as    Inga Danell