Lotta Hedlund

Lotta Hedlund
Background information
Birth name	Charlotte Jean Butler
Born	(1944-03-10) March 10, 1944
Genres	Pop, Rock, Schlager
Occupation	Singer

Charlotte Jean "Lotta" Hedlund (born March 10, 1944 as Charlotte Jean Butler) is an African-American singer who has been living in Sweden since the late 1960s.

Life and career

She started her career in the girlgroup Sherrys. The Sherrys toured Sweden with Swedish rock singer Jerry Williams, and after one of the gigs they met up with Hep Stars, Sweden's most successful group of the 1960s. One of the members was Benny Andersson (later of ABBA fame), another was Sven "Svenne" Hedlund - and they got romantically involved.

She joined her husband by becoming a member of Hep Stars and later as a singer duo Svenne & Lotta in the 1970s, called "Sven & Charlotte" in certain countries.

Svenne & Lotta competed in the Swedish heats for Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen, in 1975, with a song penned by the men of ABBA, called "Bang en boomerang", and also recorded the song in English and had a hit in several European countries with "Bang a boomerang". ABBA later covered the song as an album track.

Svenne & Lotta went to become one of the best selling groups of all times in Denmark, and even recorded a single in Danish.

Lotta and her family live in Sävsjö in Småland in southern Sweden. Both she and her husband are still touring Sweden as a duo as well as solo artists, and are considered a cult act.

Discography - commercially available solo records

• Bad Girl (CD-single, 2007. Recorded in Philadelphia and Stockholm).

See also discographies of Sherrys, Hep Stars, Svenne & Lotta, Sven & Charlotte.

Personal life

Lotta is married with Swedish singer Svenne Hedlund (Sven Hedlund) since 1969.