Anna Sahlin

Anna Sahlin (Sahlene) was born in 1976 in a small Swedish town called Söderhamn. Coming from a big family with great music talent (6 younger sister and brother: Jonas, Ase, Ellika, Beata, Martina, Joel; mother Eva and father Lars-Gunnar are all musicians), she began singing and playing instruments at a very early age. She has learned singing, piano, cello, guitar and oboe. As a nine year old, she starred as one of the main characters in the movies based on Astrid Lindgren's books about "The Children From The Bullerby Village" (Barnen in Bullerbyn). At the age of 18, Sahlene decided to move to Stockholm to try her luck as an artist. Soon she started to build a reputation as a skillful vocalist, which led to the job as a lead-singer of the R&B pop band Rhythm Avenue. The band released one album in Sweden and Japan. At the same time Sahlene was working a lot as a backing vocalist for Swedish artists like Carola, Eric Gadd, Robyn, and more. In 1999 she was approached by the Swedish record