Swedish singer
Anna Myrra Malmberg (born 20 December 1966) is a Swedish singer, dancer, songwriter, and photographer.
Early life.
Anna Myrra Malmberg was born in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta, and spent her childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota and her teenage years in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated the Stockholm High School of Music and immediately embarked upon a theatrical career. Early on she took on roles such as Maria in "West Side Story", Hodel in "Fiddler on the Roof" and Grizabella in "Cats", but also straight acting roles such as Poppy in "Noises Off".
Career.
In London's West End, where she was cast as Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" by director Hal Prince, Malmberg also played Cosette in "Les Misérables", Estella in "Great Expectations" and The Narrator in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". She caught the attention of Andrew Lloyd Webber and joined the cast of "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" at St Paul's Cathedral and elsewhere. Malmberg also appeared in the Royal Variety Show, broadcast by the BBC from the London Palladium, BBC's "Blue Peter", GMTV and the BBC series "Showstoppers", opposite Gary Wilmot.
Other roles include Eva Perón in "Evita" at the Gothenburg Opera, Emma Carew in "Jekyll and Hyde" at Stockholm's China Theatre and Maria in "West Side Story" at the Rome Opera in Italy and the Gothenburg Opera, Sweden.
Malmberg's Swedish TV credits span drama, including "Fallet Paragon", to popular entertainment shows, such as "Allsång på Skansen", "Go'kväll", "Söndagsöppet" and "Så ska det låta". She also appeared on "Celebrity Jeopardy" (which she won) and participated in "Melodifestivalen" (Eurovision Song Contest). She has also performed as a special guest star in Russia's own Eurovision in the early 1990s to 80 million viewers.
Her discography includes a Stephen Sondheim retrospective, "Myrra Malmberg Sings Sondheim: What Can You Lose", Lloyd Webber's music accompanied by a string quartet on "Myrra Malmberg Sings Lloyd Webber: Unexpected", a handful of bossa nova albums especially successful throughout Asia, the singer/songwriter album "Serendipity", plus various cast albums and soundtracks. She has been awarded a Grammy.
Malmberg's latest recording is the classical crossover, "Another World". Together with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and internationally renowned conductor Paul Bateman she explores the musical territory between the classical and popular music genres.
Malmberg has lent her voice to a long list of Disney characters in their Swedish incarnations, including Princess Jasmine in "Aladdin", Ariel in "The Little Mermaid", Wendy in "Peter Pan", Megara in "Hercules" and Norma Jean in "Happy Feet".
She has written songs and lyrics for other recording artists and has translated lyrics and scripts into Swedish from English, French and Danish, including "Jekyll and Hyde – the Musical" for Malmö Opera.
Her photography includes portraits and album covers for various recording artists such as Benny Andersson, Berndt Rosengren, and The Sweet Jazz Trio. Malmberg has also held solo exhibits of her work.
On 14 March 1998 Myrra Malmberg competed at Melodifestivalen in Malmö with the song "Julia", ending up third.
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