12 Facts About Brita Borg

Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg was a Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist.

Brita Borg's variety show career spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed away at the end of the 1960s.

Brita Borg was born on Sodermalm in Stockholm and began her career in the Sodermalm-based variety show group Varat gang after having won a song competition organised by the magazine Vecko-Revyn in 1943.

Brita Borg participated in his radio program Fyra kring en flygel and was the prima donna of several versions of the Knappupp variety show between 1952 and 1962.

In 1962, she reached the peak of her career as a variety show artist with the number Die Brita Borg, parodying Swedish singers who made a career by catering to German audiences.

From 1964 onwards Brita Borg performed in several variety shows with Hagge Geigert in Uddevalla and Gothenburg, and a sojourn at Folkan with Kar de Mumma.

Brita Borg played in the musical Call Me Madam in 1967, and gave a celebrated performance as Annie Oakley in the musical Annie Get Your Gun in 1973.

Brita Borg made many recordings, first for Sonora, then for Knappupp.

Brita Borg's genre was traditional pop songs, with the, at the time, common leaning towards Italian.

Brita Borg had attempted a more modern style with Frankenstein rock in 1957 but was eventually surpassed by younger, but less voice-strong singers, with greater appeal to a young audience.

Brita Borg was musical, humorous, and conscientious, but ended up becoming an actress instead of a pop star.

Brita Borg did not make a major comeback similar to the comebacks by several other older Swedish pop stars such as Hanson, Carson, and Malmkvist, or had her pop song recordings re-released in anthologies and CDs, like Leander and Lindblom have.