Jessica Folcker

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Jessica Folcker's Swedish 2005 single Vad gör jag nu.

1 Biography
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External link

[edit] Biography

Jessica Folcker is a popular Swedish singer with international success. She was born in Täby, a Stockholm suburb, on July 9th, 1975. Her birth name is Jessica Elisabeth Angelique Folcker, and like the name proposes, she is a mixture of two cultures.Her mother is Swedish and father is from Senegal in Western Africa.

In early days, for six years until she was 17, Jessica attended a music school. Her big dream was to become a singer, which was fulfilled when she was engaged as a backing singer for the international superstars Ace of Base and Dr. Alban. She also performed the chorus in Leila K's hit "Electric".

On Jessica's debut album, named simply Jessica and released in the autumn 1998, she worked with the world famous composer and producer Max Martin, known as he is for having written Britney Spears' Baby One More Time. The album was an instant hit, and Jessica became an international star over night. As a result, Jessica travelled to Asia for a six week long promotional tour across the East Asian countries of Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, resulting in high sales in the region, including selling gold in South Korea, where her remake of a David Foster classic, Goodbye, was used as the theme ballad in a major Korean movie, A Promise, rapidly becoming the most played song on Korean radio.

In Sweden, Jessica peaked the top of the single chart with two singles from the album; How Will I Know Who You Are and Tell Me What You like, both selling platinum. Jessica Folcker became historic when she won two prizes at the awards show of Sweden's number one pop radio station, NRJ. There she won both New Artist of the Year as well as Swedish Female Artist of the Year. No artist had won more than one award until then.

Two years after releasing her debut album, in the autumn of 2000, Jessica Folcker's second album came out, called Dino, nicknamed after one of her producers. Besides Europe and Asia, Jessica wanted to conquer the USA as well this time around. She faced a problem however, many Americans pronounced her surname close to "fucker". To prevent this, she decided to take the "artist name" Jessica Folker instead, without the c. Jessica's first single from the album, To Be Able To Love, became a big hit in the states thanks to a remix by a US DJ with the name of Jonathan Peters, and soon Jessica went on a club tour to New York and New Jersey.

On the other side of the globe, another of Jessica Folcker's songs - Lost Without Your Love - became once again the theme tune of a Korean film, this one called Indian Summer. Once again, Jessica reached the top of the South Korean airplay chart. In April 2001, Jessica's song Miracles was chosen as the theme melody for the Dutch Fame Academy replica, Starmaker. Due to this, she decided to release the song as her second single from the album, her sixth in total.

In 2005, Jessica debuted in the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In Melodifestivalen 2005, she performed Om natten. This year she tried again, participating in the third semi final heat of Melodifestivalen 2006 on March 4th with the song When Love's Comin' Back Again. She failed to qualify from the semi final.