Nina Persson
{{short description|Swedish singer (born 1974)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Nina Persson
| image = File:Nina persson 2014 hamburg 06.jpg
| caption = Persson in 2014
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| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Nina Elisabet Persson
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|9|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = Örebro, Närke, Sweden
| origin = Jönköping, Småland, Sweden
| instrument = Vocals, keyboards
| genre = {{hlist|Indie pop|indie rock|alternative rock}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician}}
| years_active = 1992–present
| label = {{hlist|Lojinx|The End}}
| current_member_of = {{hlist|The Cardigans| {{nowrap|A Camp}}}}
}}
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Nina Elisabet Persson ({{IPA|sv|ˈnîːna ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn|-|sv-Nina Persson.ogg}}; 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). {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20011121220838/http://chartattack.com/damn/2001/09/0401.cfm "CD REVIEWS: Bif Naked, System Of A Down, Zeke and many more"]}}. Chart Attack. and one under her own name, and has appeared as a guest artist with several other acts.
Career
Persson made her acting debut in the film Om Gud vill which was released in 2006.
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 Records.{{cite web |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1579782/nina-persson-animal-heart-video/video/ |title=Nina Persson – "Animal Heart" Video |first=Brie |last=Roche Lilliott |work=Stereogum |date=24 November 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013}}
In 2016, Persson appeared as a guest vocalist on the Local Natives song "Dark Days," singing the second verse.
file:James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra (52674140043).jpg
In October 2022, Domino Recording Company posted a single by James Yorkston, Persson and The Secondhand Orchestra called "Hold Out For Love."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0MHnYdUFrI "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.{{Cite web |last=Pop |first=Retro |date=2023-01-10 |title=Nina Persson talks future of The Cardigans ahead of latest solo project: 'It's unlikely we'll record new music' |url=https://retropopmagazine.com/nina-persson-talks-future-of-the-cardigans-ahead-of-latest-solo-project-its-unlikely-well-record-new-music/ |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=RETROPOP - Fashionably Nostalgic {{!}} News, Interviews, Reviews, and more... |language=en-GB}}
Personal life
Persson grew up in Jönköping, Sweden.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/apr/26/nina-persson-cardigans-reunion |title=Nina Persson: knitting the Cardigans back together |author=Helienne Lindvall |work=the Guardian |date= 26 April 2012}} "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."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLbE8_gSJM "The Cardigans Nina Persson talks w Eric Blair 2014"] blairingoutshow, YouTube, 14 November 2015
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.{{cite web | title=Nina Persson (Cardigans) Married Nathan Larson (Shudder To Think) 20 Years Ago Today | website=Magnet Magazine | date=2021-06-16 | url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2021/06/16/nina-persson-cardigans-married-nathan-larson-shudder-to-think-20-years-ago-today/ | ref={{sfnref|Magnet Magazine|2021}} | access-date=2025-06-07}}
Persson was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2009 and underwent surgical treatment.{{cn|date=February 2025}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nina-perssons-politiska-kall/|title=Nina Persson: Jag förstod att jag måste byta bana eller land|date=9 March 2018|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter}}
Discography
{{See also|The Cardigans discography|A Camp#Discography}}
=Studio albums=
=Singles=
- 1996: "Desafinado" (Japanese-only release)
- 2000: "Theme from 'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)", Nina Persson & David Arnold (#49 on UK singles chart)[http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_P.HTM "The Official Zobbel Homepage, UK Chart Runs from 1996 to 2006"]. Retrieved on 27 February 2009.
- 2007: "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough", Manic Street Preachers feat. Nina Persson (#2 on UK singles chart)
- 2014: "Animal Heart"
- 2014: "Sometimes"
- 2015: "The Legacy (Theme Song)"
- 2018: "Var ligger Sverige?" (feat. Thomas Öberg, Moto Boy & !Regeringen){{cite web |url=https://www.jp.se/article/nina-persson-slapper-singel-pa-svenska/ |title=Nina Persson släpper singel på svenska |language=sv |trans-title=Nina Persson releases single in Swedish |author=Joelsson, Michael |work=Jönköpings-Posten |date=16 February 2018 |access-date=18 February 2018}}
- 2018: "Ligg Lågt" (feat. Thomas Öberg, Moto Boy, !Regeringen & Selma Modéer Wiking)
=Soundtracks=
- 2014: "Tänk Om... Musiken Från Filmen"
- 2015: "What if... (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack What if...)"
=Collaborations and soundtrack appearances=
| class="wikitable"
!align="center" width="30"|Year !align="right" width="275"|Song Title !align="left" width="210"|Main Artist !align="center" width="250"|Album |
| align="center" rowspan="2"|1996
| "Autumn Waltz" | Scents | Scents |
| "Desafinado"
| Nina Persson | 12 Standards |
| align="center" rowspan="3"|1998
| "Som Glas" | Fläskkvartetten | Jag Ger Vad Som Helst För Lite Solsken |
| "Appalachian Lullaby" |
| "J’en Ai Marre D’être Bleu"
| J’en Ai Marre D’être Deux |
| align="center" rowspan="3"|1999
| "Is It Really Real?" |align="left" rowspan="2"|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 |
| align="center" rowspan="2"|2000
| "Theme From Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)" | Nina Persson | Randall and Hopkirk OST |
| "Lid"
| Ray Wonder | A New Kind of Love |
| align="center" rowspan="5"|2001
| Nina Persson & Nathan Larson | Lad De Små Børn OST |
| "Gold Day"
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Sparklehorse |align="left" rowspan="2"|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 |
| align="center"|2002
| "Bängen Trålar" |
| align="center"|2003
| "Friends" |
| align="center" rowspan="6"|2004
| "Dirty Love" | Das Not Compute |
| "Fiction"
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Nathan Larson |align="left" rowspan="2"|FilmMusik |
| "Le Pont De La Tristesse" (a.k.a. "Creme Fresh (Moods)") |
| "Miss You"
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Marit Bergman |align="left" rowspan="2"|Baby Dry Your Eyes |
| "Outro" |
| "Prom Night"
| Sir Eric Beyond | The Beauty of Nature EP |
| align="center" rowspan="7"|2005
| "You Hate My Beautiful Love" | Monkeystrikes | You Hate My Beautiful Love |
| "Flyg Min Väg"
| Jag är Monstret |
| "Aviva Pastoral"
|align="left" rowspan="3"|Nathan Larson |align="left" rowspan="3"|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 |
| align="center" rowspan="4"|2006
| "Angel's Fall (Sorry Angel)" |align="left" rowspan="4"|Nina Persson |
| "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Om Gud Vill OST |
| "Itämaista Rakkautta (Oriental Love)" |
| "Black Winged Bird" |
| align="center" rowspan="3"|2007
| "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" |align="left" rowspan="2"|Manic Street Preachers |
| "Your Love Alone... (Nina Solo Acoustic)" |
| "Vänner"
| Svante Thuresson och Vänner |
| align="center" rowspan="3"|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?" |
| align="center" rowspan="5"|2009
| "Electric Flowers" (w/ RZA) | N.A.S.A. |
| "Tears from a Child's Eye"
| Nicolai Dunger | Play |
| "Daddy's Gone" |
| "Electraglide"
| Tender Parasites OST |
| "Lament Of Belles"
| Lula Magazine |
| align="center" rowspan="2"|2010
| "Brothers in Arms" | Georg Wadenius | Reconnection |
| "The Blues"
| Primary 1 | Record Store Day 10" |
| align="center" rowspan="6"|2011
| "Cowboys and Hobos" | Nathan Larson | My Idiot Brother OST |
| "The End of the Line" (Recorded 1997)
| Lars Bygden | Songs I Wrote |
| "Jolene"
|align="left" rowspan="3"|Dollykollot |align="left" rowspan="3"|Dollykollot |
| "Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man" |
| "The Weed Had Got There First" |
| "Place I Love"
| Nathan Larson | Dark Horse OST |
| align="center" rowspan="3"|2012
|"Make Believe" |align="left" rowspan="2"|James Iha |align="left" rowspan="2"|Look to the Sky |
| "Till Next Tuesday" |
| "I Swung the Election"
| Grab a Root and Growl |
| align="center" rowspan="2"|2014
| "Heat" | Brothers of End | Shakers Love |
| "Fight Song (God's Pocket)"
| Nathan Larson | God's Pocket OST |
| align="center" rowspan="1"|2015
| "Static" | Ben Lee | A Mixtape From Ben Lee |
| align="center" rowspan="3"|2016
| "Come Give Me Love" | Timo Räisänen | Timo sjunger Ted |
| "Saturday"
| Nina Persson | Hello Mark Linkous - A Tribute to Sparklehorse |
| "Dark Days" |
| align="center" rowspan="1"|2017
| "Dead for Seconds" | Moto Boy | NEW MUSIC |
| align="center" rowspan="1"|2022
| James Yorkston with The Second Hand Orchestra |
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons|Nina Persson}}
- {{IMDb name|1051453|name=Nina Persson}}
- My City, My Life [http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/07/nina.interview/index.html interview] with Nina Persson on CNN, January 2009
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Category:Swedish indie pop musicians