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Nina Elisabet Persson (; born 6 September 1974) is the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock band The Cardigans. She also has worked as a solo artist, releasing two albums as A CampDebbie Bento, Brian Pascual (4 September 2001). . Chart Attack. and one under her own name, and has appeared as a guest artist with several other acts.
She appears on the Manic Street Preachers song "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough", which reached #2 on the UK chart, 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".
Persson's first solo album released under her own name, Animal Heart, was released on 10 February 2014 on the independent British record label Lojinx.
In 2016, Persson appeared as a guest vocalist on the Local Natives song "Sunlit Youth," singing the second verse.
In October 2022, Domino Recording Company posted a single by James Yorkston, Persson and The Secondhand Orchestra called "Hold Out For Love." "James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Secondhand Orchestra - Hold Out For Love (Official Audio)" dominorecordco, YouTube, Posted 17 October 2022, Retrieved 27 December 2022 The track was from the forthcoming album The Great White Sea Eagle. She worked with James Yorkston and Karl-Jonas Winqvist of The Second Hand Orchestra on that album in Malmo. She toured in the UK with them in 2022 and 2023.
She has said that the Cardigans may reform occasionally to play together, but there are no plans to work in a studio to create new music together.
She did not want to be a musician growing up, having an interest in art instead, which resulted in her attending art school. "I never really strived to be a musician; I was just, sort of, recruited into this band. I was bored out of my mind in this small, safe place (Jönköping). I was like, 'Awesome, I get to hang with fun guys.
On 16 June 2001, Persson married American songwriter and author Nathan Larson.
Persson was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2009 and underwent surgical treatment.
After three attempts at in vitro fertilization, their son was born on 30 September 2010. For several years the family resided in Harlem, New York City, but in 2015 they decided to relocate to Malmö, the former base of the Cardigans. In an interview with Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter in March 2018, Persson talked about her expatriate years and the return to Sweden. She pointed out that the return to her native country was family business and did not reflect any wish to reboot her old band.
Personal life
Persson grew up in Jönköping, Sweden. "I grew up in a middle-class, academic family," Persson said in 2014: "I lived in a villa with a garden. I had two younger brothers." "The Cardigans Nina Persson talks w Eric Blair 2014" blairingoutshow, YouTube, 14 November 2015
Discography
Studio albums
+ List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
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Singles
Soundtracks
Collaborations and soundtrack appearances
1996 "Autumn Waltz" Scents Scents "Desafinado" Nina Persson 12 Standards 1998 "Som Glas" Fläskkvartetten Jag Ger Vad Som Helst För Lite Solsken "Appalachian Lullaby" Shudder To Think First Love, Last Rites Soundtrack "J’en Ai Marre D’être Bleu" Mathieu Boogaerts J’en Ai Marre D’être Deux 1999 "Is It Really Real?" Nathan Larson I Am Not Scared (Promo) "What the Hell Are You Crying For?" Desert Blue OST "The Bluest Eyes in Texas" Nina Persson Boys Don't Cry OST 2000 "Theme From Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)" Nina Persson Randall and Hopkirk OST "Lid" Ray Wonder A New Kind of Love 2001 "Losing My Religion" Nina Persson & Nathan Larson Lad De Små Børn OST "Gold Day" Sparklehorse It's A Wonderful Life "Apple Bed" "Just Because a Man Expects Me To" Nathan Larson Jealous God "Exit Smiling" Nathan Larson & Patrik Bartosch The Château OST 2002 "Bängen Trålar" Soundtrack of Our Lives Nationalsånger 2003 "Friends" Backyard Babies Stockholm Syndrome 2004 "Dirty Love" Division of Laura Lee Das Not Compute "Fiction" Nathan Larson FilmMusik "Le Pont De La Tristesse" (a.k.a. "Creme Fresh (Moods)") "Miss You" Marit Bergman Baby Dry Your Eyes "Outro" "Prom Night" Sir Eric Beyond The Beauty of Nature EP 2005 "You Hate My Beautiful Love" Monkeystrikes You Hate My Beautiful Love "Flyg Min Väg" Freddie Wadling Jag är Monstret "Aviva Pastoral" Nathan Larson Palindromes OST "Lullaby (Aviva's and Henrietta's Theme)" "Up on a Cloud" "Roaring 40's" Christian Kjellvandar Faya "Little Fish Theme" Nathan Larson Little Fish OST 2006 "Angel's Fall (Sorry Angel)" Nina Persson Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" Om Gud Vill OST "Itämaista Rakkautta (Oriental Love)" "Black Winged Bird" The Cake Sale 2007 "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" Manic Street Preachers Send Away the Tigers "Your Love Alone... (Nina Solo Acoustic)" Your Love Alone Is Not Enough "Vänner" Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson och Vänner 2008 "Land of a Thousand Dances" Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power Pleasure Before Business "Baby You Got Me Wrong" Florian Horwath Sleepyhead "Why'd You Come in Here Looking Like That?" Jill Johnson Music Row 2009 "Electric Flowers" (w/ RZA) N.A.S.A. The Spirit of Apollo "Tears from a Child's Eye" Nicolai Dunger Play "Daddy's Gone" "Electraglide" Aurelio Valle Tender Parasites OST "Lament Of Belles" Nathan Larson Lula Magazine 2010 "Brothers in Arms" Georg Wadenius Reconnection "The Blues" Primary 1 Record Store Day 10" 2011 "Cowboys and Hobos" Nathan Larson My Idiot Brother OST "The End of the Line" (Recorded 1997) Lars Bygden Songs I Wrote "Jolene" Dollykollot Dollykollot "Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man" "The Weed Had Got There First" "Place I Love" Nathan Larson Dark Horse OST 2012 "Make Believe" James Iha Look to the Sky "Till Next Tuesday" "I Swung the Election" The Citizens Band Grab a Root and Growl 2014 "Heat" Brothers of End Shakers Love "Fight Song (God's Pocket)" Nathan Larson God's Pocket OST 2015 "Static" Ben Lee A Mixtape From Ben Lee 2016 "Come Give Me Love" Timo Räisänen Timo sjunger Ted "Saturday" Nina Persson Hello Mark Linkous - A Tribute to Sparklehorse "Dark Days" Local Natives Sunlit Youth 2017 "Dead for Seconds" Moto Boy NEW MUSIC 2022 "Hold Out For Love" "James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Secondhand Orchestra - Hold Out For Love (Official Audio)" dominorecordco, YouTube, Posted 17 October 2022, Retrieved 27 December 2022 James Yorkston with The Second Hand Orchestra The Great White Sea Eagle
See also
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Categories: Swedish Rock Singers, 1974 Births, Living People, Swedish Women Rock Singers, Swedish Pop Singers, Swedish Women Pop Singers, The Cardigans Members, Actors From Jönköping, Musicians From Jönköping County, Swedish Expatriates In The United States, English-language Singers From Sweden, Lojinx Artists, 21st-century Swedish Women Singers, A Camp Members, Swedish Indie Pop Musicians, Actresses From Jönköping County, Swedish Keyboardists, Swedish Women Keyboardists
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