Alice Babs

Alice Babs

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Acting

  • Gender

    Female

  • Birthday

    1924-01-26

  • Day of Death

    2014-02-11 (90 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden

Biography

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.

Acting