swedish pop sensation robin with the y first tested the waters at the start of
her music career at home and achieved success before going international she actually began
recording and performing on a professional level long before she could even legally drive or vote
everything she touched turned to gold until the typical trials and tribulations that life is
full of took her out of the spotlight and into therapy on a journey back to finding happiness
let's find out whatever happened to swedish singer-songwriter robin robin miriam carlson
was born in sweden in the capital city of stockholm on june 12 1979. her parents were
part of an experimental theater group that they became involved with before she was born
when she was only six months old she began going on tour with them
robin began her professional career at the age of nine when she landed a role in a play she
then went on to do voice work for an animated film and started writing her own songs the first song
she ever wrote was about her parents divorce that was happening at the time over the next
several years she would record and perform whenever the opportunity presented itself
one day her talent was duly noted by a national pop singer who just happened to be visiting her
school she was so impressed by robin that she set up a meeting between her management
robin and of course robin's parents after all she was only 14 at the time
she ended up signing a record deal with a local swedish independent label that was
later acquired by bmg her debut single called you've got that something was released in 1995
and was quickly followed up by the song that would be her breakthrough hit and reach the
top 10 in denmark norway and sweden the hip-hop influence track do you really want me show respect
look out world robin is here and that's exactly what she chose to name her debut album
released that year in sweden and internationally two years later
now it was time to branch out and try to conquer other international markets
and that she did her us debut single do you know what it takes made it all the way to number seven
on the billboard hot 100 and also charted in canada and australia
it was quickly followed by another hit show me love not to be confused with the 1993 house hit
of the same name by another artist of the same name robin s after all that success
robin wasn't heard from again for 10 years well not really she wasn't heard from outside of sweden
her follow-up album released four years later titled my truth as well as her third
effort three years after that called don't stop the music were only released in sweden
it all started when robin refused to make the necessary changes that rca records requested
after realizing that some of the lyrics in two of the songs on my truth co-written by robin herself
touched on her experience having an abortion as a teen also at the time american recording
artists britney spears and christina aguilera were having tremendous success sticking to the
typical pop star template so the label thought it wouldn't be sensible to do anything else
as a result the label canceled plans to release it internationally
interestingly robin was approached by jive records the label britney would end up signing
with at the start of her career she rejected their offer so if they couldn't have robin
their next plan of action was to create another one just like her they shifted
all of their focus to brittany the head of the label even called her quote an american robin
to make the process that much easier they tapped swedish singer songwriter
and producer max martin who co-wrote several of robin's hits to work his magic on britney
and did he ever by riding and producing her breakout hit baby one more time
robin would eventually make her way back to jive when she signed a worldwide deal with them
in 2001 only for the company to be bought back by bmg the label she left them for
the process of making don't stop the music was not an enjoyable one she reunited with producer
max martin for the project but they clearly had very different visions and butted heads a lot
she was so disillusioned exhausted and frustrated with everything but she considered walking
away from music altogether also around this time robin began dating swedish mma fighter
olaf inger they would become engaged and stay engaged for the next nine years
after her less than stellar experiences working on her last two albums robin decided in 2005 that it
was time to liberate herself artistically and create her own label called konichiwa records
it was now or never since she knew that the vision she had for her next project
was going to be something that she probably wouldn't be able to pull off
under a major label she dropped that project that same year it was her fourth studio album
and the first to finally be released outside of sweden simply titled robin
her next project or projects would be something highly unusual in 2010 she would release a trio
of dance pop lps within that one year the first installment bodytalk part 1 spoke to feelings of
loneliness she switched things up for bodytalk part 2 which is much faster harder and clubbier
bodytalk or bodytalk part 3 ended up being more of a mix of a studio and compilation album
complete with the best songs from the first two albums in the series plus several new songs
she went on to have her first performance on saturday night live
light up the mtv music video awards and share the stage with the likes of katy perry and cole play
just when it seemed that things were going really well robin would disappear
and not be heard from again for the next eight years
in this time she would become engaged again to videographer max vitale whom she met while working
on her music video for a song off her robin album she would then go through a very dark period and
collect another broken engagement under her belt when they separated during the year to follow
she plunged into a deep depression and there were many days when she didn't get out of bed
she ultimately found solace in therapy that became a staple in her life for six years eventually
she would begin writing and recording songs again but not before another major heartbreak
her friend swedish record producer and musician christian fogg passed away after a battle with
pancreatic cancer robin had worked with him since her debut album and he had become
a great mentor after a two-year separation robin and max would reconcile in 2018.
she came back from her hiatus in october of that year with her eighth and last album to date
titled honey the first single perfectly called missing you is about losing max and christian
in an interview with nme.com robin spoke about her feelings while recording the album saying
the more i enjoy my life the more i'm scared to lose it the more you feel it the more it slips
out of your hands that's painful when you realize that's what it's like to be a human being we're
limited both physically because of our bodies but also the length of our lives they're not forever
robin surprised her fans in the summer of 2020 by sharing a 20-second clip of a song
on her twitter with the caption 5a or august 5th not may 8th like her american fans thought
the song called impact is by uk singer s g lewis featuring robin and american rapper
channel tres it was digitally released on all streaming platforms that day
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