Visor från vinden (Songs from the loft) is the Swedish singer Sofia Karlsson's third studio album as a solo artist. The album was released on 11 April 2007 by Bonnier Amigo Music Group.

The album is a collection of classical songs sung in Swedish, but written by poets and musicians such as Baudelaire, Dan Andersson, Marianne Flodin, Mikael Wiehe, Alf Hambe, Inger Hagerup, Carl Michael Bellman, Peps Persson, and Evert Taube. The album also contains Lars Forssell's free version of Boris Vian's "Le Déserteur".

Visor från vinden was recorded at six different times in different places, mainly in Sweden, but also Denmark. The producers were Göran Petersson, Sofia Karlsson and Jan Borges, and among the participating musicians were Esbjörn Hazelius, Roger Tallroth and Lena Willemark.

The album reached second place on the Swedish album chart, Karlsson's best placement at that time. She received several prizes for the album: a Swedish Grammy in the folk music category in 2008, a Danish Grammy 2008 in the category "Best Foreign Album" and the Manifest Gala Prize 2008 in the folk music category.

Visor från vinden followed Karlsson's 2005 hit Svarta ballader (Black Ballads) which sold 60,000 copies. Karlsson said that after Svarta ballader she had not planned to make a new album for five years. During the tour that followed the album she and her band began to incorporate more and more songs in the repertoire, so many that she finally had enough for a new album. The songs Karlsson chose to include she describes as "old favorites" that "popped up in the tour bus".

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