25 Facts About Ola Svensson

Ola Svensson was born to Swedish parents, and has two adopted brothers from El Salvador, Jonas and Daniel, both his elders.

Ola Svensson played for a long time for Trelleborgs FF before moving to the first-division team Vasalunds IF.

In 2005, Ola Svensson auditioned for season 2 of the Swedish edition of Idol.

Ola Svensson finished the competition as eighth overall for the season.

In 2008, Ola Svensson won a coveted Rockbjornen award in Sweden, for Best Song of the Year with "Feelgood".

Ola Svensson has received 14 nominations for the Rockbjornen award and a nomination for a Grammy Award.

On 22 June 2009 Ola Svensson released the single "Sky's the Limit" that again topped the Swedish charts.

Ola Svensson has taken part in Melodifestivalen twice in a bid to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 and in 2010.

Ola Svensson first participated in Melodifestivalen 2008 appearing for the second semi-final on 16 February with the song "Love in Stereo".

Ola Svensson moved to the "second chance" phase in Kiruna on 8 March 2008 and was through in the first round against the band Caracola, but was overtaken by Sibel in the second round with her song "That Is Where I'll Go".

On 6 February 2010, Ola Svensson participated yet again in Melodifestivalen 2010.

Ola Svensson sang first in the first heat, and qualified through to the final, held in Stockholm Globen Arena on 13 March 2010.

Ola Svensson finished seventh in the final, with 47 points.

In June 2010, Ola Svensson bought himself out of his Universal Music contract after two albums with Universal, Given to Fly and Good Enough and started his own record company, Oliniho Records.

Ola Svensson is currently releasing music in mainland Europe with Sony Music.

The newly established company said that after five years on a major, Ola Svensson [had] decided to start his own record company, Oliniho Records.

Ola Svensson received attention from popular blogger Perez Hilton, who called the song "sweet sweet europop deliciousness".

In November 2011, Ola Svensson travelled to New York to film his music video to "All Over the World".

Ola Svensson toured internationally to promote his hit single "All Over The World", that had found airplay notably in the UK, South Africa, Germany, Russia and the Middle East.

Ola Svensson took part in the production on several tracks.

Ola Svensson made an extensive tour in Sweden, Europe and internationally during 2013 and 2014 playing in twenty countries for promoting his international career.

Ola Svensson took part in a short documentary My Life as Ola about his experience as an artist and as an individual.

Ola Svensson appeared in several programs including the Swedish series Sa ska det lata.

Ola Svensson has performed acoustic versions of his singles on radio stations such as RixFM, NRJ, Sveriges Radio and Mix Megapol.

Ola Svensson has performed on televised concerts outside of Sweden such as Europa Live in Russia in 2013.