Effective period / Period of releases: 1992

Swedish singer and songwriter born in 1949 in Uppsala.

She grew up in Sigtuna, in a house in the woods. Her family had sprung from a complex encounter between a cultural and artistic circle and an aristocratic forest magnate environment that seemed to seek and need each other. Progressive and conservative worlds of ideas were broken against each other. The family both excluded and was self-sufficient at the same time as it opened up to a contemporary and a freedom to seek its own expression. In the family, the idea of ​​culture and society was often valued higher than the care of those closest to them.

Fanny graduated in 1968 and a year later she moved to Stockholm. She also sought an artistic form of expression through photography and image, among other things, but chose the music. She studied music, art history and pedagogy at the university, freelance as a photographer, cultural writer and cultural educator. Fanny formed a family, trained as a sociologist and furthered her education in the 1990s at the St. Luke's Foundation's educational / psychotherapy institute. In 1989 she moved to Lidingö where she still lives. Since 1995, she has been working full-time as a counselor in adult psychiatry. Fanny is a member of SKAP as a lyricist and composer.

Only in her late teens did Fanny write her first songs, combining poetry and melody. Crucial to her continued composing was the encounter with progressive country music, the modernist directions in literature, the visual arts, classical music and an ever deeper relationship with psychoanalysis. There she discovered and confirmed her need to be both in tradition and in free, own form.

In 1976, author Rose Lagercrantz asked Fanny to write six special songs for a children's radio program series. Fanny said yes and performed her songs in public for the first time.

Fanny developed the songwriting and in the early 1980s began a collaboration with the guitarist Leif Olivemark and together with him she started performing live with her songs. The collaboration led to the first record release, the single Meeting at the Sea / The Wild Night, 1987. The single attracted attention, was played on the radio and in 1989 was released her first solo album, Andra Ställen Produced by Peter R. Ericson. The album was critically acclaimed and Fanny was named the songwriter. Peter R. Ericson also produced Fanny's sequel and other solo albums, Ofrånkomligt in 1992. This album was also very well received.

In the autumn of 1992, Fanny stopped performing and making recordings to provide the necessary space for further studies and to be able to support herself and her family. Thanks to the fact that in 1993 she received the artists' committee's two-year work scholarship, she was able to complete a completely new song production in the following years. Eight of these songs are now on her new album. The other two songs on the album are new recordings of her previously released songs.

In 2009, Fanny was invited to spend a day in Pål Svenre's studio. It was not just one day. It became an open and unconditional collaboration that led to the new and finished album, Fanny's third solo album ”Vad stenar behöver” which was released in March 2012.