About Anette
Real Name:
Anette Ingegerd Olsson
Stage name:
Anette Olzon (a.k.a. Anette Blyckert)
Birthday and Place of Birth: Katrineholm, Sweden
21 June 1971
Place of residence:
Helsingborg, Sweden
Lived in Påarp with her ex-husband and their son. Moved with her mother to Skåne when she was 2 years old.
Status: engaged.
Family:
: Johan Husgafvel, chef and bass player for the swedish band Pain.
: Seth Nathanael (born in Helsingborg, 11/07/2001; weighed 4075 grams and was 53 inches long), with her ex - husband Fredrik Blyckert;
Nemo (born in Helsingborg, 30/07/2010; was 52 cm tall and his weight was 3930 gram), with her actual boyfriend;
: Majvor Ingegärd Olsson
: Gunnar Olzon
: Peter Olsson, 21 june 1963 (born in june the 21th as Anette!)
: Catherine Forsberg
: Linda Fredriksson
: Niclas Olsson, keyboard player and composer of Anette former band Alyson Avenue, the two grew up together.
names: Svea, Sanda, Ivan and Evert.
Hobbies:
Exercising, clothes, reading books and taking long walks in the wild.
Musical background:
I was raised in a musical family and I’ve been singing since childhood. My mom also forced me to play the oboe for 8 years! I toured constantly with my mom and her band in my childhood, sometimes I even sang on stage with them.
After I turned 13, I started competing in several talent shows. I joined my first real band when I was 17, it was a cover band and all the other musicians were older than me. After playing cover songs, I joined a band called Alyson Avenue, first just as a studio singer, later as their leading lady. We’ve released 2 albums since 2000.
Anette tells: “But since I am very stubborn and really felt that this was meant to be, I sent an e-mail again in the summer asking if I could send them a live-dvd from my band, Alyson Avenue, and Tuomas said yes.”
At the age of 21, I played the leading role in a rock opera/musical called “Gränsland” in Helsingborg. After that I got in to the Balettakademien in Gothenburg. In addition to the already mentioned, I’ve been in several other bands over the years, I’ve sung in choirs, done studio work for various projects and I’ve even occasionally been a wedding singer. Recently I sang a duet with Michael Bormann (ex-Jaded Heart-singer) on his album “Conspiracy”. During my singing career I’ve sung nearly every kind of music that there is!
In my earlier days I took singing lessons at the Copenhagen Music Conservatorie, in Helsingör, Denmark with a private teacher. Nowadays, when its needed, I take lessons from a private teacher at the Malmö Music University.
Interview with Anette 24.05.2007
Tell us about the steps of becoming the new Nightwish singer. Sending in the demo, getting the first answer, meeting the guys for the first time, etc..
“I had just heard of NW a couple of months before Tarja got fired, so I didn’t know the band or its history at all. I first got into them because my sister’s daughter is a fan, I felt that maybe I should listen to them since I am always interested in new music. I bought their collection album and liked it immediately. When I read about Tarja’s departure, I was in an ABBA-cover band where the sound engineer said he thought I should apply, but since I’m not a classical singer, I wasn’t sure. After some thinking I decided to ask two friends of mine if they could record background music for Ever Dream and they did. I went in and hadn’t even practised the song, since I wanted to interpret it my own way. A couple of hours later it was done. I found an e-mail to Tuomas, got his address and sent the demo away and just one week after sending it, Tuomas answered me himself… he was thrilled and really loved my voice and the song! Wow, it was such a nice mail and I was of course totally happy…. he then asked me to sing 3 more songs, from an instrumental version of Once, which he sent me some weeks later. I then recorded Nemo, Higher Than Hopes, Wish I Had An Angel and I also did a bonus for them, Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan…with my poor Finnish they must have laughed their heads off…;=)
I sent the second demo and then I e-mailed Tuomas if he had gotten it. He said he had and he said thanks and good job, etc. I didn’t wanna push him, since he had told me already in the first mail that they wanted to take it easy and melt all the hustle that had been with the media etc., so I tried to let it go and just wait…. Then in March, they put out the ad that they wanted demos, etc. and I felt that I needed to check with Tuomas if I should send in something more, so I mailed him and got a devastating mail back where he said that I was one of the best candidates, but that he could already then say that I wouldn’t get the job!!! I was in shock, I didn’t understand anything and he didn’t say why… so I assumed it was because of my age or that I have a child…
But since I am very stubborn and really felt that this was meant to be, I sent an e-mail again in the summer asking if I could send them a live-dvd from my band, Alyson Avenue, and Tuomas said yes. I sent it away and in August, I received a mail from Ewo asking me some questions, which I answered. I then got invited to meet the guys in the beginning of September to try some songs out. I got there, met the guys and sang 5 or 6 old songs with them. The next day I went to Emppu’s studio to sing some new stuff for them. It felt very good and they were such nice guys. I felt immediately that I wanted to work with them, since they were so down to earth and had very good sense of humour. When I landed in Kastrup Airport in the evening, I got an sms from Ewo that they all liked me a lot and wanted to see me again in a months time.. Soooo happy that I cried on the way home.”
(Used With Permission By Anette Olzon Central)
