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Jill Johnson

Jill Johnson, 2009
Background information
Birth name Jill Anna Maria Johnson
Origin Ängelholm, Sweden
Genres Country, Country rock, Pop, Schlager
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1996–present
Labels Lionheart (1998-present)
Website www.jilljohnson.se
Jill Johnson in 2003

Jill Anna Maria Johnson, (born May 24, 1973), is a Swedish country- and pop-singer and songwriter. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998 winning song Kärleken är, and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen with Crazy in Love, which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final of Melodifestivalen in 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several gold and platinum records.

Biography [link]

Johnson is from the small town of Ängelholm in the south western part of Sweden, but the surroundings and the media compare her with the biggest stars in the music business. By the age of four, she had decided that she wanted to become an artist, an aspiration towards which she was highly encouraged by her local choir leader. As a 12-year old, she started off as vocalist in a Country & Western band, Tomboola Band, touring in Norway and Denmark. She signed eventually with EMI-Medley in Denmark and recorded an album, produced by top producer Paul Bruun. The title-track, Sugar Tree, became a hit in Denmark. In 1996, she had her first Swedish hit with Kommer tid, kommer vår, a duet with Jan Johansen. She now lives in a hunting lodge in the Western Gothlandic woods of Sweden, but also has a home in Stockholm.

In 1998, she performed Kärleken är at Melodifestivalen, winning the Swedish finals and going on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest. This established Johnson as one of the prime Swedish artists. The success was followed by the hit album När hela världen ser på and a successful tour.

In mid 1999, Johnson went to L.A. to look for material for her second album. At home, she worked with Andreas Carlsson (ASCAP Writer of the Year 2000), who is known for several massive hits, the biggest, so far, being Celine Dion's That's the Way It Is. She also tried out a few local new-comers and the album Daughter of Eve was released in early 2000. It was very well received and Johnson was compared with some of the world's best artists.

In 2000, she received a platinum-record in Denmark for the sound-track Promise To Love from the Danish block-buster, "Eneste Ene". Later that year, Johnson started to collaborate with other songwriters such as Jenny Orenstein, Charlie Stefl, Mary Green [Biem Writer of the Year 2001]. This resulted in her receiving a Publishing contract in Nashville Tennessee. Consequently, in 2002 Johnson's album entitled "Good Girl" came to be with the help of producer Scott Bagget and some of Nashville’s top musicians. This album secured Johnson's artistic sound and style and once again she was extremely well received by the press in their reviews where she was described as an artist of International calibre.

In the Swedish finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 she qualified at fourth place (out of 32 entries) but and her song “Crazy in Love" became a hit and received a great deal of radio play and was followed by a successful tour.

Johnson's collective "Discography" CD was released in late March 2003. It contains the 20 most popular songs since her debut in 1995. This Cd went straight into the sales charts for best selling CDs in Sweden. The single “Crazy in Love” stayed at No 1 in the Swedish Top Charts (Svensktoppen) 12 weeks consecutively and No 2 for 15 weeks. "Discography" sold Gold in Sweden and Johnson also got a Grammy for this album.

The latest album "Roots and Wings" was released in November 2003, recorded and produced by Amir Aly in Sweden and by Scott Baggett in Nashville, USA. "Roots and Wings" sold gold in less than two weeks and platinum a few months later. The album "Being who you are" was released in Sweden in late March 2005 and sold gold in only a few weeks. Johnson was the host of the 2005 Swedish finals of the Eurovison Song Contest in Stockholm.

Discography [link]

Studio albums
Title Details Peak positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
SWE
[1]
Sugartree —
När hela världen ser på
  • Release date: May 10, 1998
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 37
Daughter of Eve
  • Release date: November 30, 2000
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 59
Good Girl
  • Release date: 2002
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 37
Roots and Wings
  • Release date: November 26, 2003
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 5
  • SWE: Platinum
Being Who You Are
  • Release date: March 23, 2005
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 4
  • SWE: Gold
The Woman I've Become
  • Release date: October 25, 2006
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 2
  • SWE: Gold
Music Row
  • Release date: November 28, 2007
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 2
  • SWE: Platinum
Baby Blue Paper
  • Release date: October 2008
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 3
  • SWE: Gold
Music Row II
  • Release date: October 28, 2009
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 2
Flirting with Disaster
  • Release date: October 7, 2011
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
Compilation albums
Title Details Peak positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
SWE
[1]
Discography, 1996-2003
  • Release date: March 27, 2003
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 4
  • SWE: Platinum
The Well-Known And Some Other Favourite Stories
  • Release date: October 27, 2010
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 2
Holiday albums
Title Details Peak positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
SWE
[1]
The Christmas in You
  • Release date: November 16, 2005
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 3
  • SWE: Gold
Singles
Year Single Peak positions Album
SWE
[2]
1995 "Shake the Sugartree" — Sugartree
1996 "All Kinds of People" —
1998 "Kärleken är" 5 När hela världen ser på
"När hela världen ser på" —
2000 "Mother's Jewel" — Daughter of Ever
"Secrets in My Life" —
"It's Only You" —
2001 "Jump in a Car" — Good Girl
2002 "What's Wrong with You" —
"Luckiest People" —
2003 "Crazy in Love" 9 Discography, 1996-2003
"Can't Get Enough of You" 27 Roots and Wings
2004 "Hopelessly Devoted to You" —
"God's Gift" 12
2005 "God Bless a Girl in Love" 37 Being Who You Are
"A Little Bit More" —
2006 "Cowboy Up" 32 The Woman I've Become
"Baby Don't Go" —
2007 "Angel of the Morning" 30 Music Row
2008 "Jolene" —
"Top of the World" 56 Baby Blue Paper
2009 "It's a Heartache" — Music Row II
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References [link]

  1. ^ a b c "swedishcharts.com - Swedish charts portal". Hung Medien. https://www.swedishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Jill+Johnson. Retrieved May 28, 2011. 
  2. ^ "swedishcharts.com - Swedish charts portal". Hung Medien. https://www.swedishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=s&search=Jill+Johnson. Retrieved May 28, 2011. 
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Blond
with "Bara hon älskar mig"		 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
1998		 Succeeded by
Charlotte Nilsson
with "Take Me to Your Heaven"

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Jill Johnson (disambiguation)

Jill Johnson may refer to:

  • Jill Johnson, Swedish singer
  • Jill Johnson (swimmer), member of the USA Olympic team in 1992.
  • Jill Johnson (When a Stranger Calls), fictional character
  • Jill Johnson (Superhero Movie), 2008 spoof movie

    • Not to be confused with:

  • Jillette Johnson, US singer-songwriter
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    Superhero Movie

    Superhero Movie is a 2008 American comedy spoof film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by David Zucker and Robert K. Weiss, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled Superhero! as a nod to one of David and Jerry Zucker's previous films Airplane!.

    Superhero Movie is a spoof of the superhero film genre, mainly the first Spider-Man, as well as other modern-day Marvel Comics film adaptations. The film follows in the footsteps of the Scary Movie series of comedies, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by, and contains homages to, some of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

    Production began on September 17, 2007, in New York. It was released on March 28, 2008 in the United States, and the UK release was June 6, 2008, and received $9,000,000 on its opening weekend and was #3 at the box office.

    Plot

    Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is an unpopular student at Empire High School. He lives with his Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielsen) and Aunt Lucille (Marion Ross), and his best friend, Trey (Kevin Hart), is also his confident. Rick has a crush on Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton), but she is dating bully Lance Landers (Ryan Hansen). One day, Rick and his class go on a school field trip at an animal research lab that is run by terminally ill businessman Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald), who is Lance's uncle. During the trip, Rick accidentally saturates himself in animal-attraction liquid, which causes a group of animals to hump him. This also leads a chemically enhanced radioactive dragonfly to fly onto Rick's neck and bite him.

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    Jill Johnson (swimmer)

    Jill Kristen Johnson (born June 8, 1969), later known by her married name Jill Chasson, is an American former competition swimmer who participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She competed in the B Final of the women's 200-meter breaststroke event, and finished with the fourteenth-best time overall (2:33.89).

    See also

  • List of Stanford University people

    • References


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    When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)

    When a Stranger Calls (released in the UK as When a Stranger Rings) is a 1979 psychological horror film. It was directed by Fred Walton and stars Carol Kane and Charles Durning. The film derives its story from the classic folk legend of "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" and the 1974 horror classic Black Christmas. The film was commercially successful, grossing $21,411,158 at the box office, though it received a mixed critical reception. It was followed by the 1993 made-for-television sequel When a Stranger Calls Back and a remake in 2006.

    The film has developed a cult following over time because of the film's opening 20 minutes, now consistently regarded as one of the scariest openings in horror movie history. The film's opening sequence was largely influential for the horror genre and was paid homage to in Wes Craven's Scream in the latter film's opening 12 minutes.

    Plot

    Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) is babysitting the children of Dr. Mandrakis (Carmen Argenziano) at their home. When the children are asleep, Jill receives a telephone call from a man who asks her if she has checked the children. At first, Jill dismisses the telephone calls as a practical joke; however, as the calls become more frequent and threatening, Jill becomes frightened and decides to call the police, who promise to trace the caller if Jill keeps him on the telephone line long enough. Jill, frightened to extreme measures, arms herself as she receives one final call from the nefarious stalker. Soon after the conversation, Jill receives a call from the police, only to find out that the stalker is calling from inside the house. A light comes on at the top of the staircase, and Jill sees the stalker's shadow. She immediately runs to the front door to scream for help.

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    Podcasts:

    Jill Johnson

    ALBUMS

    Duetterna

    Released 2013

    A Woman Can Change Her Mind

    Released 2012

    Flirting With Disaster

    Released 2011

    Music Row II

    Released 2009

    Baby Blue Paper

    Released 2008

    The Christmas in You

    Released 2008

    Music Row

    Released 2007

    The Woman I've Become

    Released 2006

    Being Who You Are

    Released 2005

    Discography

    Released 2003

    Roots and Wings

    Released 2003

    Good Girl

    Released 2001

    Daughter of Eve

    Released 2000

    Jill Johnson Sugar Tree

    När hela världen ser på

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    What's A Little Rain

    by: Jill Johnson

    (music and lyrics: Jill Johnson/Lisa Carver/Pam Rose)
    I trust the broken hearted
    I trust the lost and fallen souls
    cause they know,
    that kind of tears i've tasted
    The nights and days I've wasted
    Fighting hard not to let you go
    Oh How I tried, your love just lied
    I cant take the pain
    I played the same
    so what's a little rain
    I'm not the samw without you
    I'm strong now that I should be
    You wouldn't recognize me
    I know the stars at midnight,
    I know the morning with no sleep
    I've gone down deep
    I'll do the time, I'll be just fine
    I can take the pain
    I played the game
    so what's a little rain
    It's not so lonely here
    Waiting for the sky to clear
    I'll be over you
    I'll be over you
    I can take the pain
    I played the game
    I can take the pain
    I played the game
    what's a little rain
    I can take the pain
    I played the game
    I can take the pain
    I played the game




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