Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer. Her singing and acting careers span five decades, starting in 1961. She had a minor success in 1961 and a charting album in 1964. She scored a disco hit in 1979. She recorded a critically acclaimed gospel album in 2001 and an album of Christmas songs in 2004.
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Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. Her singing and acting careers span five decades, starting in 1961; initially, she was billed as a female version of Elvis Presley. She had a minor success in 1961 and a charting album in 1964, and she scored a disco hit in 1979. She recorded a critically acclaimed gospel album in 2001 and an album of Christmas songs in 2004. In 2010, she won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Anna Regina and Carl Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1949. She appeared on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club, and Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour. As part of a group known as the Suttletones, she performed at the Mist nightclub in Chicago and went to Las Vegas for a promised club date which fell through after the group arrived. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she had hits on the dance charts, the most successful being \”Love Rush, which peaked at number eight on the discodance charts. She also sang at the Academy Awards in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song, “Theme from Bachelor in Paradise” She has a sultry, vibrant contralto voice, and has a sexy, throaty contral to singing voice.
Her first RCA Victor recording was \”Lost Love\”. Her debut album, And Here She Is: Ann- Margret, was recorded in Hollywood, arranged and conducted by Marty Paich. Later albums were produced in Nashville with Chet Atkins on guitar, the Jordanaires, and the Anita Kerr Singers, with liner notes by mentor George Burns. She is married to former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and they have a son, Michael, and a daughter, Kaitlin, who lives in Los Angeles, California. Ann-Margrets is a member of the Phi Delta Theta sorority, which is a chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity. Her husband is a former University of Illinois at Chicago alumnus, and her daughter is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. She and her son have two children, Michael and Katelyn, who is also a professional dancer and singer-songwriter. The couple has a son named Michael, who has a hit song called “I Just Just Don’t Understand”, which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at number 17. The song was later covered by The Beatles during a live performance at the BBC. Her only charted album was The Beauty and the Beard on which she was accompanied by trumpeter Al Hirt.
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