Person
Alice Babs
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- January 26, 1924 · 90 years
- Death
- February 11, 2014
- Origin
- Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
Technical Alias
Alice SjöblomHildur Alice Nilson
Professional Trajectory
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.
