Alice Babs

Alice Babs
Nilson in 1940
Background information
Birth name	Hildur Alice Nilson
Born	(1924-01-26)26 January 1924 Kalmar, Sweden
Died	11 February 2014(2014-02-11) (aged 90) Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Jazz schlager
Occupation(s)	Singer, actress
Years active	1939–2004

Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer.^[1] 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.