Emilia Rydberg
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Hanna Emilia Rydberg-Mitiku, known simply as Emilia (born 5 January 1978),[1] is a Swedish pop and soul singer.[2] Her 1998 hit single "Big Big World" reached number one on the music charts in several countries.[3][4]
Life and career
Rydberg's father is the Ethiopian singer Teshome Mitiku. Her mother, Malena Rydberg, is Swedish. As a student she attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm.[5]
Rydberg was discovered in 1996 by Lars Anderson, son of ABBA's manager, Stig Anderson. She used the mononym of Emilia in the first years of her career, but more recently she has started to perform under the name of Emilia Mitiku, using her father's surname. In 2009, she competed in Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection for Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "You're My World". She advanced directly from her heat; however, she placed ninth in the final. She released her album My World in 2009. Her single "Teardrops" was released to radio stations on 2 June 2009.[6][7] Her duet with Template:Ill, "Side By Side" (Szerelemre hangolva), was recorded in both Hungarian and English languages and issued the same year.[8]
Emilia recorded a cover version of Rihanna's "We Found Love" for a studio session in Stockholm which was published on YouTube.[9] On 25 June 2012 she released the single "Lost Inside".[10]
In 2021, she joined the all-female group, Super Fëmmes, with a line-up consisting of Therese Grankvist, Denise Lopez, Mia Shotte, Josefine Willers and Emilia herself. In April 2022, the band released their debut single, a cover of Rozalla's 1991 hit "Everybody's Free".[11]
Discography
Albums
| Year | Album | Peak positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [12] |
AUS [13] |
FIN [14] |
GER | ||
| 1998 | Big Big World | 14 | 172 | 14 | 6 |
| 2000 | Emilia | 51 | Template:Spaced ndash | Template:Spaced ndash | — |
| 2007 | Små ord av kärlek | 22 | Template:Spaced ndash | Template:Spaced ndash | — |
| 2009 | My World | Template:Spaced ndash | Template:Spaced ndash | Template:Spaced ndash | — |
| 2013 | I Belong to You | Template:Spaced ndash | Template:Spaced ndash | Template:Spaced ndash | — |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions[16] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUT | AUS[13] | BEL (Vl) | BEL (Wa) | NED | FIN | FRA | GER | IRE | NZ | NOR | SWE [12] |
SWI | UK | US | US Pop | |||||||||
| 1998 | "Big Big World" | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 92 | 26 | |||||||
| 1999 | "Good Sign" | 27 | 182 | 44 | 28 | 52 | – | 21 | 32 | – | – | – | 16 | 27 | 54 | – | – | |||||||
| "Twist of Fate" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 37 | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| 2000 | "Sorry I'm in Love" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 17 | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| 2001 | "Kiss by Kiss" | – | – | 52 | – | – | – | – | 56 | – | – | – | – | 52 | – | – | – | |||||||
| "When You Are Here" (with Oli. P) |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 45 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| 2002 | "Everybody" (with DJ BoBo) |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| 2006 | "Var minut" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| 2007 | "En sång om kärleken" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| 2008 | "I Won't Cry" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| "I Can Do It" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| 2009 | "You're My World" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| "Teardrops" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| As Emilia Mitiku | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | "Lost Inside" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| "So Wonderful" | – | – | 131 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| 2013 | "You're Not Right for Me" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 79 | – | – | |||||||
| "You're Breaking My Heart" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
- Featured in
- 2010/2012: "Watch the Stars" (Bryan Rice featuring Emilia) (BEL (Vl): #91)[17]
References
External links
- Emilia Mitiku - Official YouTube channel
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE discography at Discogs
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- ↑ Emilia Rydberg Charts, Allmusic
- ↑ Her father TESHOME MITIKU is also popular Amharic musician in Ethiopia.Emilia Rydberg Template:Webarchive
- ↑ One Hit Wonder: Emilia: "Big Big World" | Musik-Center | BAYERN 3 | BR Template:Webarchive. Br-online.de. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
- ↑ Billboard. Google Books (12 December 1998). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
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- ↑ Jönköping | Jnytt.se | Nöje | Melodifestivalen | Emilia är tillbaka i hetluften igen Template:Webarchive. Jnytt.se. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
- ↑ Melodifestivalen 2009 Template:Webarchive. svt.se (4 November 2008). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
- ↑ Dobrády Ákos feat Emilia – Szerelemre hangolva (official, HD) Template:Webarchive. YouTube (12 November 2009). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
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- ↑ GER chart positions Template:Webarchive AUT AUS FIN FRA NZ SWI NL BE SWE NO chart positions Template:Webarchive chart positionsTemplate:Dead link UK chart positions Template:Webarchive [[[:Template:BillboardURLbyName]] US chartr positions]
- ↑ Ultratop: "Watch the Stars" song page
- Pages with script errors
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Swedish pop singers
- Swedish women pop singers
- Swedish people of Ethiopian descent
- Singers from Stockholm
- Swedish soul singers
- 21st-century Swedish singers
- 21st-century Swedish women singers
- English-language singers from Sweden
- Bonnier Amigo Music Group artists
- Universal Music Group artists