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Nina Persson

Born 06 September 1974.

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Nina Persson (help·info) (born Nina Elisabet Persson 6 September 1974 in Örebro, Sweden) is the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish pop group The Cardigans. She has also worked as a solo artist, releasing two albums as A Camp and appearing on the tribute album to Serge Gainsbourg entitled Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. She has also worked with rock group Sparklehorse and was a member of The Cake Sale collective, which released an eponymously titled album in 2006 to raise money for the charity Oxfam and the Ireland Make Trade Fair campaign.

Persson made her acting debut in the movie Om Gud vill which was released in 2006.

She appears on the Manic Street Preachers song "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" on the album Send Away the Tigers. She also features on the 2009 Sparklehorse/Danger Mouse collaboration "Dark Night of the Soul" singing "Daddy's Gone".

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Desafinado 1996
 

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Role Artist Release
Lyricist The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight (2003)
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