Fame

This is a shared name.

Fame is the name of a musical (1988) and film (1980). The top tagged songs for this artist are from the musical recordings of the original Broadway cast or subsequent recordings.


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Fame is a Swedish pop duo, consisting of Magnus Bäcklund and Jessica Andersson. They met each other in 2002 in the TV casting show "Fame Factory". Magnus later won the 1st season of "Fame Factory", while Jessica dropped out to give birth to her son.

Later, they got together to build the group "Fame" and participated in Melodifestivalen 2003, the Swedish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. They finally won Melodifestivalen with "Give Me Your Love". At the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga, they ranked 5th.

Fame tried a second time at Melodifestivalen - taking part in 2004 with "Vindarna vänder oss". They finished 6th at the Melodifestivalen final.

Music has been a huge part of their adult lives, but until late 2002 they were completely unknown in Sweden. They met each other at the televised arts school and contest Fame Factory, which aired in autumn 2002. Bäcklund was the overall winner, while Andersson dropped out to give birth to her son Liam. Bäcklund also has two young twin daughters at home.

Andersson is a former photo model and Bäcklund is a commercial pilot. They share Stevie Wonder as their role model.