Britta Persson

Britta Persson is a Swedish indie pop singer-songwriter.

Biography

Persson was born 1981 in Vattholma, Uppsala Municipality. She went to school at Uppsala musikklasser in Uppsala, having Veronica Maggio in her parallel class and played grunge in the late 1990s.
Her musical career began when she sent a demo to Kristofer Åström, and he invited her on his 2005 tour for the album Loupita. She was then able to sell 2,000 home-burned demo CDs online.
She had her breakthrough in 2006 with the album Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist. Additionally, Persson was the composer in the TV series Dejta. The single "Winter Tour" got high rotation on radio in Scandinavia and a couple of years later also received recognition in Europe due to a TV advertising campaign.
In 2008 the follow-up album Kill Hollywood Me was released. Persson has worked with Camera Obscura.
In 2012, Persson helped co-write the song "So Young So High" by Swedish duo Dada Life. The year after, she released her fourth album, If I Was a Band My Name Would Be Forevers.
In 2015, she was featured on "You Hunch" by, who was then performing as Swedish Tiger Sound.
In August 2019, Persson released Folk – dikter och toner om personer. It was a collaboration with sisters Emma and Lisen Adbåge, who were also releasing a children's book with the same title. In 2023, Persson released an album and poetry collection, both named Alla är barn, with illustrations by Emma and Lisen Adbåge.

Discography

EPs

2004: Demo 1
2004: Demo 2
2005: ''Found at Home''