Sofia Karlsson

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Johanna Sofia Blåsippa Karlsson (born 25 March 1975 in Enskede, Sweden) is a classically-trained Swedish folk singer and songwriter. Her breakthrough album was of poems from a book by the Swedish proletarian poet Dan Andersson, Svarta ballader. She is known for her interpretations of poems and songs by authors as varied as Baudelaire, Mikael Wiehe, Inger Hagerup, Carl Michael Bellman, Peps Persson, Evert Taube, and Boris Vian. She has won both Swedish and Danish Grammys. Sofia Karlsson grew up in Enskede, Stockholm. She attended the folk music department of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. From 1998 to 2002 she was a full-time member in Swedish folk music act Groupa. In 2002 she released her debut solo album Folk songs. In 2005 she made her public breakthrough with her second album Svarta ballader (Black Ballads). The album contains her interpretations of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson, named for his 1917 book.