Jenny Berggren

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Jenny Cecilia Petrén,née Berggren, (born 19 May 1972), professionally known as Jenny Berggren and Jenny from Ace of Base is a Swedish mezzo-soprano singer and former lead singer in the Swedish pop band Ace of Base. Since 1995, she has also been writing songs and performing solo. In 2010, she released her debut album My Story.

Life and career

Early life

Jenny was born in Gothenburg and she is the third of three children born to Göran Berggren, an X-ray technician, and Birgitta Berggren. She was raised in a Christian family in the Gothenburg suburbs.

All three Berggren children took music lessons, and Jenny, along with her older sister Malin, practiced violin. Educated to become a teacher, Berggren studied classical music and sang for her church choir with her sister.

Ace of Base

During the late 1980s, the Berggren siblings, along with Johnny Lindén and Nicklas Tränk, formed the techno band Tech Noir. The group eventually became Ace of Base. Berggren also attended university, with the intention of becoming a teacher. This plan fell apart when Ace of Base was signed to Danish label Mega Records, with the band's debut album eventually selling more than 30 million copies worldwide.

My Story (Jenny Berggren album)

My Story is the debut solo album by former lead singer of Swedish pop band Ace of Base, Jenny Berggren.

Background

The track listing was revealed on Jenny's official website on September 30, 2010. On New Year's Day 2010, what later proved to be a demo version of "Free Me" became available for free download on Jenny's official website as a teaser of her upcoming solo material.

In May 2010, the first official single, "Here I Am" was released throughout Europe. "Here I Am" entered and peaked at number 14 on the Swedish charts. "Gotta Go" was released as the album's second single in September 2010 preceding the album's release in October 2010. The album was released worldwide through various music outlets, including iTunes. The album includes a new, remixed version of "Free Me", as well as a studio version of fan favorite "Give Me The Faith," a song Jenny had begun to sing at live appearances a decade earlier.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Release history

My Story (Scholastic New Zealand)

My Story is a series of historical novels for older children published by Scholastic New Zealand which was inspired by Dear America. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in New Zealand history.

Books

My Story

My Story may refer to:

Literature

Music

My Story (Julia Gillard autobiography)

My Story is a political memoir of Julia Gillard, who served as the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010, and then the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She is the first, and to date only woman to serve in either position. Published in 2014 by Random House Australia, My Story reflects on various personal aspects of her life and career, including her own analysis of the people and key players of the Rudd-Gillard Governments (2007–2013).

Summary and themes

My Story covers much of Gillard's political career as the Federal Parliamentary Member for Lalor from 1998 to 2013. The autobiography's focul point is Gillard's rise to power within the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Parliament, as the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia following the 2007 federal election, and her tumultuous tenure as Prime Minister following the 2010 Australian Labor Party leadership spill against Labor leader and then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Her memoir, analyses her achievements and recognises the failures of the Gillard Government.