Kikki Danielsson

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Kikki Danielsson

Origin	Osby, Sweden
Country	Sweden
Years active	1973-present
Genres	country, "dansband", pop
Labels	Mariann Grammofon AB

Ann-Kristin (Kikki) Danielsson (born 10 May 1952 in Osby, Sweden) is a Swedish pop, "dansband" and country singer. Sometimes, she also plays the accordion. She is also famous for yodeling in some songs.

1 Life and work
2 Melodifestivalen, Melodi Grand Prix and Eurovision entries
3 Discography
- 3.1 Albums
4 External links

Totally, she has participated nine times at the Swedish Melodifestivalen and one time at the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix. She has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1982 (as a part of the Swedish pop and country group Chips with the song "Dag efter dag", finishing 8th) and in the 1985 (solo) with the song Bra vibrationer, finishing 3rd.

Kikki Danielsson begun as a singer in the Swedish "dansband" Wizex in 1973, and participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1978. She left Wizex in 1982, but as a member of the pop group Chips she participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1980, 1981 och 1982. She has also been a popular Svensktoppen singer, with hits as the Melodifestivalen songs, but also other songs, like "Papaya Coconut" in 1987. She willingly sings country and has contributeed in radio and TV shows in the USA in the 1980s.

During the second half of 1984, she married Swedish musician Kjell Roos, who led the "dansband" Roosarna, with which she sang between 1990 and 1999. In 1985 she gave birth to their first child. Before Christmas 1988 she released the Christmas album "Min barndoms jular". With Roosarna she had many Svensktoppen hits during the 1990s. In 1999 she separated from Kjell Roos.

Kikki Danielsson has also sang at the 2001 Stockholm Pride. Together with Lotta Engberg and Elisabeth Andreassen she participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2002 and together they called themselves Kikki, Bettan & Lotta and had an own dinner show during the second half of 2002 and participated at the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix in 2003.

Her periods of problems with alcohol as well as her eating habits have been popular topics of the Swedish tabloid press.

Because of her eating habits she appeared in the Swedish version of "You are what you eat" where she made great progress and lost several pounds.