Ola Svensson
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Ola Svensson (2011)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ola Nils Håkan Svensson |
| Also known as | Ola |
| Born |
23 February 1986 Lund, Skåne, Sweden |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Labels | Oliniho Records |
| Associated acts | Alexander Kronlund, Shellback, Klas Åhlund |
| Website | www |
Ola Nils Håkan Svensson (born 23 February 1986) in Lund, Skåne, professionally known simply as Ola, is a Swedish artist and songwriter. His career began on Swedish Idol in 2005 however since coming 8th, Ola has released four albums. Eleven of his releases have reached Top 5, with 6 making it to number one on the Swedishsingle charts, attaining gold and platinum certification. After being signed to Universal Music for many years, Ola founded his own record label Oliniho Records for the Swedish market, keeping distribution arrangements with Sony Music in Europe and internationally.
Ola was born to Swedish parents, and has two adopted brothers from El Salvador, Jonas and Daniel, his elders. His second single "Brothers", deals in part with his relationship with his brothers with the official music video carrying footage of their childhood. From the age of 5, Ola has played piano, and a strong musical influence came from his grandfather who died when Ola was 8. After he died, Ola decided to sing in a boys choir in memory of his grandfather.
By age five Ola began playing the piano at Lund's Municipal School of Music, and at nine he joined a boys' choir in his home town Lund. Ola Svensson was an avid football (soccer) fan devoting most of his life to the sport. Ola played for a long time for Trelleborgs FF team before moving to the first division team Vasalund IF.
As an 11-year-old Svensson had a starring role in the set of the opera The Magic Flute at the Malmö City Theatre, directed by Philip Zandén.
Encouraged by his friends, tried out to the Swedish Idol auditions. In 2005, Ola auditioned to season 2 of the Swedish edition of Idol.
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