Ace of Base is a Swedish pop group, formed in 1987, originally consisting of siblings Jonas, Linn, and Jenny Berggren, with Ulf Ekberg.
The founding members of Ace of Base (from left) Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Jenny Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren, and Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg
Linn after a performance in 2002
Jonas, Jenny and Ulf during a concert in Saint Petersburg, 2007.
Ace of Base performing during a fan meeting in Toronto, Canada (2010).
Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World War II, Swedish pop music was heavily influenced by American jazz, and then by rock-and-roll from the U.S. and the U.K. in the 1950s and 1960s, before developing into dansband music. Since the 1970s, Swedish pop music has come to international prominence with bands singing in English, ranking high on the British, New Zealand, American, and Australian charts and making Sweden one of the world's top exporter of popular music by gross domestic product.
Tages (pictured here in 1965) are widely considered one of the best Swedish bands of the 1960s.
Kikki Danielsson broke through with Wizex in the 1970s.
Between 1989 and 1991, Roxette had four number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The tremendous impact of the Cheiron Studios on Swedish popular music is hard to overstate.
