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There was some singing and playing going on in Magnusson family home outside of Västerås and that’s where Anneli started playing the guitar. But her family understood already long before that, that they had a singer to be in their house. Just like the girl in the ABBA hit “Thank you for the music”, she was a singer before she could talk and a few years later, she “dressed” herself in curtain fabric and performed to her family, singing in make believe-French.

Her teenage years

In her teenage years, she started performing on stage, playing acoustic in various places, even as a streetmusician and she could also be seen with different bands, mostly singing rock covers.

After getting admitted into Carlforsska, the music college of Västerås, she started working on her future musical career for real. She had of course no idea that she’d started something that would affect the rest of her life.

The three guys behind the producer team Hit Vision were looking for a girl with an attitude in her voice, someone who could sing their melodic dance music. They turned to Carlforsska for help and the teacher had no doubt saying: “Talk to Anneli!”

She accepted their offer and started recording their songs, still just for fun and with no thoughts or expectations about where it could lead. In fact, all the demos were recorded in the bedroom of one of the songwriters. 2 Unlimited was the biggest inspiration.

Recorded an album

But then things started happening. One of the producers moved to Stockholm and started working for a small recordlabel there. They liked what they heard and wanted to release the songs but the big question was if it should be with the unknown demo singer Anneli? They decided to go for a famous model fronting the project, they even tried some of them in the studio.
Let’s just say that Anneli won the ”singing competition”.

She went to Stockholm to record another song. And another. And another. And it went on like that for a while unt