Interview in the magazine Kupé: Love gives Nanne energy A sleepy Nanne Grönvall calls and asks with worry if she hasn't misunderstood the time for the interview with Kupé. - There's so much going on right now, and I realize that I have the tendency to double book myself. Since she became the audience's favourite in this years Melodifestivalen (beaten with an inch Martin Stenmarck) life has not been what it used to be for the energetic 43 year old. - The fact that I'm, peaking after 40 is great for all women in this business. It shows that you as a woman are not too old because you are past 27. Even if I'm not exactly green the success I'm experiencing now is absolutely incredible. Oh my god, I can't even get hold of my own management company, because they have so much to do with bookings and requests considering the artist Nanne. (Big laugh). When she describes the intensive tempo of lately, with hysterical record signings, late night gigs, countless photo sessions, interviews and TV-performances you almost expect a broken-down wreckage to show up. But no, Nanne appears like a whirling springtime rapid. She looks fresh and fit beyond description when she jumps out of her large city-jeep with her cell phone ready for action. Even if she's thin as a rod there's nothing wrong with her appetite. Over a X-large meatball sandwich she talks carreer, love and the meaning of life. - As an artist I have been trough both successes and failures. I'm grateful for that today. I don't think it's healthy to just see the good parts of the this business. I take nothing for granted and I'm safe within myself and I know that the winds can turn fast in this business. My largest professional safety line is my diversity and the fact that I haven't built my carreer so I have to depend on record sales. Besides being a celebrated artist and schlager star she's also a songwriter, musical artist, actress and comedian. It's not enough for Nanne to be topping all the lists there is, being on almost every TV-show and to have sold more record than most Swedish artists. This summer (2005) she is one of the stars in Rhapsody in Rock and this autumn she starts rehearsing for the leading role in the magnificent musical Sweet Charity at the theatre Intiman in Stockholm. She doesn't have a problem with the large swings between these different ways of expressing herself. That her popstar carreer collides with her musical carreer. - No, I don't work that way. At the moment I'm enjoying this pop star thing and the coming winter I'm gonna live the theatre life, which means less travel and more time at home with my family. Of course it became kinda tight between the success with Håll Om Mig and the rehearsals of Sweet Charity, but I'm so proud and happy for this role so there must be a way to combine it. You can do what you want to do. When her old group Sound of Music split speculations started about the love-affairs in the group. - A lot of people thought I stole Peter behind the back of Angélique. But it wasn't like that at all. It had been over between them for quite a while when Peter and I found each other, so there were no hard feelings. The reason for us to disband Sound of Music was more that we were evolving into different musical directions. Peter and I had been working together in several bands before Sound of Music, so it was natural for us to continue working with things even after the Sound of Music era. - Peter has always been having an never-ending faith in me both as a human being and as an artist. It's absolutely amazing. Even if we have been together for 18 years and have been through both crises and boredom our relation is very filled with love. We respect each other and do always wish the best for the other one. Nanne smiles. In the beginning she had hard to take her love serious. - I mean, imagine suddenly waking up with one of your best colleagues in bed, morning after morning (laughter). It took some time for both Peter and I to understand that we were more than just friends. But having the answers, I can really recommend all singles who are looking for mr right to look around among the nearest acquaintances. - My mother was just 16 when she gave birth to me, so we both lived with my grandmother. My dad - who also was very young - and my mother have stayed in touch, which was very important for me when I grew up. He often came visiting us. Nanne describes her school years as a necessary evil. - I wasn't exactly the hard studying kind, I was in a way just good at the exciting things. These days I can really regret that I didn't pay more attention to subjects that I find incredible interesting today, like history. She was aiming for music early, even if she didn't dare dreaming of being able to make a living off it. - It was different back then. Today there are Fame schools and opportunities on every street corner. The information society have created a closeness between reality and people's dreams. But you have to take the bad things with the good things. And for me the celeb thing has never been that important. More important is to be able to reach people with my music and to be able to work with things I love. - Make-up is one of these things that I don't bother with in private. I never cope with or want to be chic when I'm free. My work is so narcissistic, so you have to watch yourself so you don't become like that in private too. Nanne likes to keep a distance to today's idea of beauty. She rather get inspiration from trolls than from symmetric perfection. - I collect trolls and witches. I think they are so beautiful in their ugliness. Can anyone really resist a troll? Beauty is so much on the surface. I don't have any moral objection towards today's strive for the unnatural perfection, even If I can think it's a bit sad that the ideal has become so narrow. It creates unnecessary problem with people. When she was asked if she was an Agnetha or a Frida while growing up (Reference to the starts in the 70:ies group ABBA) she hesitates a while before confessing "Frida". - But it was more rock than ABBA when I grew up. Then she points out that she appreciates the music of her father in law, Benny Andersson, very much today. Then she tells what gives her the energy. Rocket-fuel? - I get my energy from working with what I like. If you're having fun at work you don't check the clock. I find strength with the people I love and I try to always focus on the positive things in life. You never know what tomorrow will bring, and then you can as well enjoy life while you can. Right?!

	If I was supreme ruler for a day: Nanne writes in Aftonbladet: Original article in Swedish Then I would invest in the children and remodel the school system. In the school of today subjects like mathematics and physics are still being valued higher than the knowledge about others and about our own interaction with other people. All these things we are to learn for ourselves the hard way - in the school of life. The teachers are supposed to be psychiatrists when problem appears, which it always does in school. No school books teach us that it isn't strange to be from a family which isn't like "everybody else's" or that it's not your fault when you are being bullied or become a victim of violence or abuse. No books teach us why we humans often act stupid or without logic, even if we most of the times mean well. We are not being thought to value our differences, but a lot leaves school and feel worthless because they are not the hard-studying kind. They aren't told that not everyone is made for sitting by a desk and studying a lot of different kind of subjects that demand concentration for hours. They aren't told that they have other qualities instead. We must be taught that traits like being a good friend or other positive things is as important as being the hard-studying kind. Young people must be told that there are a lot of professions which are suitable for those who can't manage the hard tempo in school. It's our differences that are so cool after all. There are teachers and headmasters who have come to "hopelessly messy classes and schools" and who have managed to create a team spirit and a self-confidence in all of the pupils. That kind of persons are needed to get a completely new school system. Why is chemical formulas valued higher than psychology and empathy? Even though most of us are never gonna use them nor our their day-to-day life neither in our professional career. The latter are subjects that would teach both self-knowledge and understanding for other people's behaviour. Young people have the duty to be in school, but no one is valuing the well-being of the soul, only of the brain. Children who are being bullied or have psychological problems are often ashamed and walks silent years after years and say they're fine. Because there's so much guilt and shame connected to our physical well-being. There's always the scare of being "different" and not being loved, which has lead to a world full of people with inner chaos. If we learn to talk more about when we don't feel well it wouldn't be connected to so much taboos. To go to a surgeon is perfectly fine, but if you go to a psychiatrist people pretend to be understanding while they are rolling their eyes and thinks "Well, I'd better watch out for this character". A lot of us carry painful experiences. But if children are taught to talk about it early it wouldn't be so hard and lonely. So I should firstly deal with the school system. I should appreciate those teachers and headmasters who do something more than the official guidelines for their schools. Together we would create a new school, where everyone can go home with the feeling that you are good at something, and where we have at least a lesson everyday where we talk about how we humans are and why we act the way we do. Not until we have learned these things will we have the use for the knowledge that H2O is the chemical formula for water.

	Nanne interview in the magazine Tara, May 2005 How is she for real, the woman the Swedes wanted to send to Kiev and the Eurovision Song Contest? Nanne Grönvall, 43 years old has been on stage for a quarter of a century, but it was not until this years Schlager hit she became really popular with the broad layers of people. - How old is Nanne Grönvall really? wonders a 20 year old girl at the Friskis & Svettis gym. She behaves like she's my age. - She's 43, I say. Can't you "behave that way" at that age? The girl smiles: - Yes, with that approach and energy she can continue to "behave that way" how much she wants. A friend thinks Nanne reminds of a cross between Goldie Hawn and Dolly Parton - two other strong women who are not ashamed of their age or of "behaving that way". She radiates strength and she is not afraid of being different. Nanne appears with her breath on top of her lungs to the photographer's studio with three large bags with clothes and make up. It's Martin Stenmarck who is representing Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev at the 21:th of May, but Nanne is the one who's really hot. - When we released our first single in 1985, I never dreamed that I should be where I am today and to be able to do my thing. Back then we were a group (Sound of Music) and we did some kind of Euro-pop. We were young and hungry and we wanted to hit internationally. Personally I don't have these kind of ambitions, I'd rather sing in Swedish. - It's a coincidence that I started off as a solo artist. Peter got an offer to do the soundtrack to Kalle Blomqvist and One More Time had to take time out for a year. So I started to write without conditions, and that resulted in Avundsjuk among other things. But I had no idea that it would become such a hit. I haven't had the same self confidence in my work as I have privately, I was thinking "Why should I...". I know how hard it is, especially for girls past 30. We're considered as worn out at that age, and I was 35. Nanne loves to meet her audience and all the time she gets confirmation on how popular she is. - It's great to get such a response from the people. My home page gets more than 1000 visits every day and I get a lot of mails an letters. And sooner or later I wanna do a real night club show for a sitting audience. (Meaning an audience who pays an entrance fee for the show, not just for eating and drinking). Nanne had her age-crisis when she was 28. - I thought I was really old and that the time for getting anywhere as a person was over. But it became great when I turned 30. I think life started after that age. The need to please everybody disappeared. I could sort out people who were wasting my energies and the scare of getting older became a gift. Not everyone will get that chance. When it comes to crises Nanne's strategy is to live out her sorrow and anger and then go on. - You must allow yourself to end up in downs, but without getting stuck there. I remember one time when I sat at home in the sofa and cried my eyes out, feeling sorry for myself. When Peter came along and wondered what the matter was, I sobbed: "Here I sit and cries and there are so many people who are worse off". And he said "Yes, there are always someone who has it worse, and I guess that one is the only one who has the right to cry then". He was so right. Everything is relative and everybody has the right to give air to their problems. Five years ago Nanne got a diagnosis that explained her problem with a racing heart, shivering, sweating and bad mood. - They did a health check and found out that I had a form of struma. I, who normally am a happy fart, was easily irritated and with mood swings. I ate like mad, and lost weight in spite of that, and the next moment I gained weight without doing a thing. I slept four hours at night the most, and tried to do ten things at a time when I was awake. But it got better when I got a medicine and in a way I'm happy for my diagnosis, because I had to rearrange my entire pattern of life. Not trying to cope with everything myself, not stress but sleep properly, not work all the time but stay in the sofa and just be cool and zap through the TV channels and think "Damn it, I'm gonna put priority only on the most important things". And that is? - Being with my family and feeling well. It was such a wonderful feeling the first time I realised that I was walking out to the mail box. Earlier I had always been running. That's the way we are used to see Nanne, as a forest elf fuelled with Red Bull. But there is a slow and harmonious side to Nanne too. When she rests in "the bliss of dullness" together with Peter. "The bliss of dullness" is her own expression, everything clears when she explains her idea about the inner core of love. - You're learning from every relation, it's an eternal puzzle to find a main road or a working compromise between two so different personalities as Peter and I. The first five years are the hardest, before you have entered "the bliss of dullness" and it just feels fine and perfectly natural to wake up, eat and fall asleep together. Peter and Nanne had known each other for six years when they became a couple. They broke their earlier relations at about the same time and they had never been casting glances at each other before. But then they started to go out and dine when the studio work of the day was done, and the relation started to grove. - In the beginning it felt really weird to wake up together with the pal Peter. We could look at each other and burst out: What are we doing? But there has always been a mutual respect between Peter and me, something that has been necessary because we are so different. He have never been drinking or smoking. When they were partying together in the beginning of their relation, Peter always wanted to leave around midnight when people started to become a bit drunk. But that was when the party started according to Nanne, and she wanted to stay. - At that time we tried to find compromises, and it ended up with someone being angered. But during the years we have come to the conclusion that he can go home whenever he wants, but that doesn't stop me from staying. We're trusting each other so much and we are both free of jealousy. I can talk to a handsome dude and he to a beautiful girl without any of us looking worrying at the other one. I love very much to go out to restaurants and eat with my friends. Peter is more of a home-person, he don't have the same social needs as I. When you're seeing them together, like after the Eurovision, you note an enormous amount of tenderness and love. Nanne tells that Peter is very generous with compliments every day. - "Wow, you're so beautiful" he says. "But I'm without make-up" I say. "You are?", he says. And I fall for it every time. Nanne laughs and says that it's cool to experience so much together as Peter and she have done and still do. Then her cellphone rings and she is lovingly cooing something about soon being home. I get the feeling that it's one of her sons who wonders in which cupboard the macaronis are kept, but it's Peter. 18 year together, how do you keep the fire burning? - Sometimes it's just there, other times you have to work a bit more to keep it alive. We're talking about everything and I have booked us into a hotel one or two times a year without the kids. Peter was complaining in the beginning, he don't like travelling, not even within the Stockholm area, but when we finally have done it he has liked it. You can't just be a good parent, you must work on being a good partner. Now we are so newly in love that you can't describe it. We have a great love and he is my best friend and I just feel that WHOA, this is the man in my life. In 1992 they married in a little picturesque church in Dalarö. Nanne has her son Robin from an earlier marriage, and together with Peter she has the sons Charlie and Felix. - We have always worked on giving the kids such a normal childhood as possible. It's not unusual that we are ten persons in the weekend, there's always some pal or pals who are staying for a sleep-over. And it's intensive - full speed, but both Peter and I like it. Earlier the Grönvall family used to go to some Sun Wing Hotel on a charter resort, because the children wanted it. Nanne tells about lying in the sun in a bikini after a hectic period with a lot of junk food, having love handles on the waist and rings beneath her eyes. The children were playing in the pool. And suddenly Nanne looks up and into the video camera of a stranger. - It happened that the children felt bad about strangers taking pictures of them without asking. That's where I draw the line. It's a question of integrity. I don't want strangers to take home videos or pictures of me in a bikini or of my children. After that even there hasn't been any more charter. - The children is the greatest love I have. When they arrived focus were aimed at them instead of me of course. I never have to worry about the meaning of life anymore. And I can still become breathless when I think about how fantastic they are when I tuck them in at night. Except for Robin they are not old enough to be out rumbling in the night, but when he is out Nanne lays awake until she hears that he comes home and when the others go to parties she rather comes and get them then letting them take the subway or the bus home. - We don't wanna spoil them too much. Put I can be a bit more pampering than Peter. I can say to Charlie: "Are you hungry? Do you want me to make you something to eat" while Peter says that they are old enough to make that themselves. - I'm a very social person, but I also need to be alone very much. Sometimes I need to get away somewhere where people don't recognise me, where I can stroll around by myself, go to bed and wake up when I want, eat what I want. I try to do it every year for two days to a week. Before the Eurovision the tabloids wrote that she had been on a hard diet. - But I have never been on a diet in my whole life. It's the dancing which has turned me into a better physical form than ever before. And with this tempo with performances, dance and theatre lessons running at the same time, it has been important to eat properly. I'm not exercising to keep the weight but because it feels good to keep myself in shape. Looks has never been that important to her. - During my teens I was completely uninterested in clothes and make-up. I was never one of the babes and have always felt that my strength was connected to my charisma more than to my looks. Neither has the weight been of any importance. I have been comfortable wherever the love handles has been shown outside the trousers or not. And sometimes they have. During late nights in the studio we often have been having cakes, candies and the likes and when we have been touring we've been eating a lot of junk food. But - well, that goes up and down and corrects itself after a while. Earlier "rabbit food" used to bore me, but these days I can long for a Caesar salad or vegetables sometimes. But we can also have real sloppy eaves with pizza, candies and chocolate. I eat everything. The reason for Nanne to be able to release records and touring is that she has been around for a while. - A debutante at my age would never have got the chance. And that can make me really mad. The dudes in the record industry thinks that women past 30 are used, but women my age who have been around for a while have a lot to give and to tell on many levels. I wonder how long it's gonna take until people realise that we are terrific?

	Every Morning Peter says I'm really beautiful - and that's even before I've put on any make up Interview in Svensk Damtidning Nanne Grönvall has her cell phone pressed to her ear when she enters Scandic Hotel in Upplands Väsby. She's walking on clouds now. Of course on high heels. As an artist you are never bigger than your latest hit, and Håll om Mig is huge at the moment. We're soon noticing that there are a lot of people who want the schlager princess. A hotel guest tells that he is a cousin and he wants to talk. The waiter's children want autographs and so does almost every child who's staying at the hotel. Nanne is happy to write them and she talks to each and everyone and eats lunch and answers questions politely at the same time. You might be aware that Nanne lost in Melodifstivalen to Martin Stenmarck with a few itty bitty points. But the's not pouting over that. - I'm incredibly happy for coming second and I have get a lot of feed back afterwards. Nanne wrote the melody for Håll Om Mig on a fortnight, and at the same time she wrote the lyrics together with Ingela "Pling" Forsman. - I'm a rock girl deep down, so I wanted something rocky that would hit fast. Taken that in mind I started to write and I'm incredible flattered over all feed back the song has got. My home page gets between a thousand and 1500 visitors every day at the moment. Unfortunately I'm noticing the popularity on my cell phone too. People who calls and hangs up and sends text messages and multimedia messages. I have warned my friends that I might have to change my number. How are you gonna follow up this success? - I have been fully booked since 1998. That is a base in the business I have had since before, but of course it gets even more after a thing like this. Nancy, who handles my bookings, said just a moment ago, "it's not easy to fit everything into a day". But Nanne is used. When she hit in Melodifestivalen 19 years ago with Sound of Music she had just had her son Robin. But taking maternal leave was out of the question. - I can feel this today, and that's why I feel such a yearning when I see little babies. Because I didn't get the time to stay at home for a lengthier period when any of my children were infants. After the split of Sound of Music Nanne and Peter had become a couple. - It became a little soap because Peter was together with Angelique, the other girl in the band. But they broke up and Peter and I became a couple. In the beginning it felt really strange to wake up with the pal Peter beside me. We even said that this was a temporary insanity. But if that was the case, it has lasted a long time. Charlie and Felix are born in 1990 and 1992, and it was exactly when our song Highland started to chart around Europe. So it was an incredible amount of traveling with new countries and cities every day sometimes. How did you manage to combine that with three children at home? - The little one we brought with us. The others got to stay with Peter's sister. We talked a lot about how to do this. But with our full schedules from morning to night we figured that they were better off at home with their relatives. Now Nanne has been a solo artist for several years - We're having a studio at home and Peter is always there working so the children has never had to spent lonely days at home. If you count all the time I guess we have spent more time at home than other people who have regular jobs. But it was the first time that became really hard. How much does Peter mean for your successes? - To have a stubborn husband who always encourages and inspires means everything. He has always been very enthusiastic and supported me when I chose to go solo. That is really great of him because he was a front figure in both Sound of Music and One More Time. Not all the dudes would have loved it when their wife suddenly was out performing on her own. But he is just proud and happy. We are both the kind of persons who are happy for each other's successes. Otherwise it wouldn't have worked. Have you ever thought it was really really hard to be an artist? - Oh, yes! Today I can feel really lucky, bacause I have both a job and I'm not depended on selling records. But the road has been long and not always lined with roses. To be a young, recording artist is really hard. There's also a very narrow view of women in the record industry. As a guy you don't have to look perfect, they select funny dudes like Svullo and Markoolio, but that kind of girls don't get a chance. Hopefully this is gonna change when more women enters the record companies. Today there's 90% men in the business. Nanne thanks her husband for her line of successes. After 18 years it's obvious that she's still in love with her Peter, who every morning tells her how beautiful she is. - And I, being totally without make up, I use to answer. "It doesn't show" he says. And I fall for it every time. Don't you ever tire of music? - When we're not working we're not talking about music or twiddling in the studio. Instead we like to go to the movies or see friends. By the way it's mostly the children who play at home these days. They play and tinkers and all the time there are new songs that they want us to listen to. So soon it might be we who go to Melodifestivalen to root for them.

	Interview in TV-Expressen about Nanne being a judge in the game show Vi i Femman (We in fifth grade) Are you a good judge in Vi i Femman - It was a bit hard to judge and to keep track on all the numbers and make sure everyone got the right points. It's different to what I'm used to. But I knew every question except for one, I'm proud of that. And I'm impressed with the children, that they are so talented. Whow, it sounds like you were of the competitive kind back in school. - No, I guess I wasn't among the three in the class that would have been selected, I guess they didn't want a theatre buff who couldn't sit still. This with being well educated is something I had to make up for as a grown up. History and geography and these things. I can regret that I missed so much, but now I could see that I actually had made up for that. Your song Håll om mig took over the first place from Du är min man, your father in law Benny Andersson's song, at the chart list Svensktoppen. Any hard feelings from him? - No, Benny is a good sportsman. He bought me flowers the very same day and he came and said "congratulations". I never even dreamt that the song would get that successful. Number one at the singles list and number two at Tracks. But taking my schedule in mind, I'm almost glad that I didn't win the Schlager Championship. And now my compilation with songs from my 20 year long career is available. You're gonna tour with Robert Wells this summer - Yes, it's gonna be incredibly funny. This is an amazing gang, and I'm looking forward to coming up with pranks together with Shirley Clamp. I have only worked on minor things together with Wells before. Like in the TV game show Så ska det låta. Early next year you're starting to play the main character in the musical Sweet Charity - Yes, I have already started with singing- and theatre classes. I've seen a DVD of the staging from the 60:ies and I've been to USA to see the musical which is running there. I wanted to do more musicals after having a supporting act in Hur man lyckas i business, so I'm looking forward to play a main role in such a fantastic musical. It's about a night club hostess and her longing for love Do you get any time off at all ? - Yes, I'm going on holidays with my family. If it becomes the summer of my dream with strawberries and sun we're gonna stay in Sweden. But if it becomes as usual and you find yourself sitting tucked in a plaid with mosquito bites all over, I guess we're leaving for a warmer place. The most important thing is being together.

	Nanne in Aftonbladet 27:th of March 2005 About becoming runner up in Melodifestivalen - Honestly I can say that it wasn't a disappointment to end up at second place in Melodifestivalen. This was the ninth time, so I'm used to these juries. That one jury rates the songs this way and the other one rates it the other way. The coolest part was getting the popular vote, and that there were so many voters. Of course it's a victory for me anyway. I never feel that this was the best thing I ever did, but I can say that I'm pleased with my performance. The adrenaline runs through your body when you enter the stage, especially when there's a place like Globen and when the audience just stands up and applauds. Everything is dizzy and after the performance you think: "What happened? Did it work out fine?". About being a parent Parenthood is one of the coolest thing there is. The love for your children cannot be described. When I got my first child I stopped asking about the meaning of life. I have never been on maternal leave, something I regret like hell today. The same time as I gave birth to Felix, our group One More Time broke through for real with hits like Highland. From time to time we have been at home of course - when we have been recording. We have a studio in the basement. I have been able to be at home more than most people during some periods. The kids are as important as breathing. The most important thing is to be there for them, but also to make them independent. To love them without suffocate them. The kids do always have a lot of friends at home for sleep-over's. In the weekends we can be ten to twelve persons. We think it's really cozy. Someone has compared it to an extended family, and I like that. About the career I have always been singing, but I started to do it full time in 1985. That year Sound of Music released it's first single. Before that I was a receptionist at a hotel, a phone operator and when I was younger I worked in a warehouse. In senior basic school I studied with the aim to be able to do office work and I felt that I wanted to have something to go back to. I didn't dare to hope I would be able to stay in this profession for so many years. The reason for me and Peter being able to stay in the business is that we have been able to cope with all "ups and downs". One More Time worked excellent and we got a real big hit. Then we released another album, which didn't become as successful. But we have been stubborn and kept on working. Then I got lucky in 1998 with Avundsjuk. After that hit I have had plenty of work, regardless of releasing another album or not. About set-backs If you have been through a lot of setbacks you learn to not take anything for granted. Since the Sound of Music-period I have known that "OK, it works today but it can be over tomorrow". I never dare to take anything for granted. At the same time I think you grow through set-backs. I feel a joy for positive things. It's so typically me, I take a joy in small, small things. I try to solve problems. Or leave them behind. I don't harp on about them. Bitterness can be such a gnawing feeling that tears upon you from the inside and which does not give anything in return. The same thing with people who have behaved badly against you. I've always had easy to forgive, for my own sake. About love The first one I think about is Peter. We have been together for 18 years. Of course we have been through all phases. We have been together half our live - and on top of that been working together around the clock. I think we are more "newly in love" than ever before. We have been through the every-day-drag. And to think it's all rosy - well, it's not. But we have grown together. When I'm out touring we talk to each other on the phone five to six times a day. Peter is not only my partner in life, but my best friend. My first impression of Peter was when he came and said hello in the rehearsal studio, when I was with my first rock band. That must have been in 1979. He knew one of the guys in the band and he sat down and played the drums. I remember thinking that he was fun, because he was so wild behind the drums. I can still look at Peter and feel a tingling inside of my body. About childhood I grew up with my mother and grandmother. But I have very close ties to my closest family, like mother, grandmother, dad and aunt. I think I had a fine time in school and good friends. When I was eleven we moved to Kungsholmen in Stockholm, and two of my pals from that time are still my best friends, Kim and Maha. We have been through all phases: the teenage phase, we have been having children. It's fab to have friends who have been with you for 30 years. I guess I was rather well behaved when I was young. I was at home listening to records or went to concerts. Kiss, Sweet, Queen. Because I'm so short I always arrived hours before the start of the consort, to be able to stand up front. Or else I wouldn't have been able to see a thing! Summer camp is also a strong memory. I was nine the first time and I had incredible fun. About religion I was a junior soldier in the Salvation Army when I was young. It was more of a coincidence that it became Salvation Army. The lady who held the sunday school I entered was in the Salvation Army. I was nine to ten. Salvation Army has all my respect. I saw how it could be during their meeting, when people came in and were drunk or on drugs. They were never thrown out. And I learned to play the guitar with the Salvation Army. There was a joy of living there. Sometimes religion is connected to condemnations and admonishment. Not with the Salvation Army. There it's only about big hearts, joy of life and enthusiasm. About envy Everything is about how much you let it rule your life. For some people envy can trigger them to do something they had never done before. But then there is a kind of envy where you think about what some people have that you don't have. That's something that gnaws away and is self destructive. Of course I have been envious. And some people you have harder to be glad for when it works out fine for them. There are some who are real scumbags and then it works out excellent for them. Great! (laughter). Well, all right, be envious and then let it go. Life is so fragile. If you have spent a lot of time glancing at what other people have, the envy won't work like fuel but as something self destructive. About self confidence Better throughout the years. To be a super babe has never been that important. I have never been a looker in that way, you felt that when you were a teenager and went to the disco. I can't say the dudes lined up. But it didn't bother me. The same thing when the girls started to grow breasts and were comparing themselves with each other. And I was looking at myself and not much happened there. But it never bothered me. I have always thought that if a dude don't think I'm good looking enough or have large enough breasts he's not my kind of dude anyway. But I have always received enough love and encouragement at home. I have always felt that I'm good enough. Professionally I have always thought that "No, I'm nothing special, all the others are so good". It has been a harder fight there. To perform solo and think that someone would like to hear me when I'm singing - it tool a long time before I dared to realize that people did. Today I feel much safer. About the future Time flies and soon the children will move out from home. I wanna go to all their bandy- and football games and get time to socialize much more.

	Nanne about education - from the paper Metro How important is an education? - It's very individual. But make sure you have a basic education. Especially if you want to work with free professions. What if it stands between finishing higher basic education or getting the dream job? - If something turns up and you have to make a decision, I definitely think you're gonna accept the job. You can finish your education later. What advantages has studying later in life? - I believe you have a bigger hunger then, you're not tired of school. When you're older you start to study because you wanna change something in your life. How can you afford being a student, what did you do? - You can work extra or in the summer and hide away the money. When I was in higher basic school I worked extra in a warehouse. What would you study if you would go back to school? - Definitely some language. It's really sad that so many young people are not studying languages today.

	Nanne about the new musical Sweet Charity From City and Aftonbladet - It's a dream role. It feels really really big. In April I'm going to Broadway to check out the musical, which premiers anew there. - The musical is mostly known for its songs, mostly Big spender. - In the movie by Fellini, Charity was a prostitute, but at Broadway and in the US film she was turned into a nightclub hostess. A bit more respectable. - This isn't the first time I'm in a musical, I did "Hur man lyckas i business utan att bli utbränd" (How to succeed in business without getting burned out) at the theatre Intiman for one and a half year. It was really fun that time, so I'm looking forward to this role.

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