Real name: Karin Maria Branzell

Effective period / Period of releases: 1929 - 2002

Swedish operatic contralto, born September 24, 1891 in Stockholm, Sweden and died December 14, 1974 in Altadena, California, USA. From 1913 to 1918 she was engaged at the Stockholm Opera, from 1919 to 1934 at the Berlin State Opera and from 1924 to 1944 and 1950 to 1951 at the Metropolitan in New York. She recorded for HMV (Stockholm 1915-1919), Deutsche Grammophon/Polydor (Berlin 1920-1922, 1927-1928), Homocord (Berlin 1924), Brunswick (New York 1924-1928) and Odeon/Parlophon (Berlin 1927-1928).