Siw Malmkvist - "Primaballerina"

looic28 June 2024Last Updated: 2 May 2025

Siw Malmkvist

Birth Name: Malmkvist, Siw Gunnel Margareta
Nationality: Suède
Born: 1936-12-31 (89 years old)
Birth Place: Landskrona Municipality
Music Genre: schlager, swedish ballads, dansband, schlagerparty

Siw Gunnel Margareta Malmkvist (born 31 December 1936) is a Swedish schlager singer and actress popular in Scandinavia and West Germany (today's Germany). She represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and West Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969. She had a number one hit in West Germany in 1964 with "Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht" ("Lovesickness Is Not Worthwhile"), and on 18 July 1964 she became the first Swede to have a hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, when "Sole Sole Sole", a duet with Italian singer Umberto Marcato, entered the chart, peaking at No. 58. Malmkwist is notable for having recorded in more than 10 languages, including Swedish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish and particularly German.