About Monica Zetterlund
Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish jazz singer and actress. She represented Sweden in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the jazz ballad "En gång i Stockholm". Through her lifetime, she starred in over 10 Swedish film productions and recorded over 20 studio albums. She gained international fame through her collaborative album with Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby. Zetterlund was awarded the Illis quorum by the government of Sweden in 2002. In 1964, she recorded the jazz album Waltz for Debby, featuring Bill Evans, a record she herself described as "the best I've done" and was the most proud of. She appeared in more than 20 films and television series. Zetterlund began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English.
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