Made In Sweden - TV4

Janet is featured on the front page of TV4's web site about Made in Sweden. There is a poll on the front page about it and everything.

I believe the bottom says that it will be premiring Wednesday.



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Janet Leon is "Made In Sweden"

There is a web site that is up called MadeInSweden.se that features Janet, Laila, Andreas, Anders and another artist named Kim Fransson!

The web site is all in Swedish but it includes videos of Janet playing guitar and talking/singing, new photos, interviews, her own blog and much more!

If any of you understand how to translate Swedish into English correctly it would be great if you could leave some translations as comments!

* Thanks so much to Sarita for recommending the Google Translate tool to look at these web pages! You can go there and enter in MadeInSweden.se (or any site you wish to translate), but for these purposes make sure it says Swedish > English! It does a great job translating the majority of the site so we can understand what is going on! ;)

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Let's Dance Premire

Tonight "Let's Dance" premired in Sweden! I am not sure exactly how the show works but if you are able to vote, please make sure to vote for Laila!


Photo from TV4.se

There is a video of her and her dancing partner, Tobias, on TV4's web site from the show. They both look incredible! Click here to see it!

Thanks FixYou for the reminder/info!

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Anna Celebrating New Years

Here is a photo of Anna celebrating New Years Eve.



Thanks to StayTrue at Playful-Play who found the picture, and Ashley for e-mailing it to me!

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Let's Dance - Laila Bagge

There is a show in Sweden, premiring on January 9th on TV4, called Let's Dance (which is similar to our Dancing with the Stars here in the states).

Laila will be dancing in this show! Click here to check her out in the trailer! She looks amazing!



A huge thanks goes to to FixYou for this info!!

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New Photo of Janet

Janet posted a new photo on her Facebook today!



Click the image to view larger. Janet says the picture was just for fun (thanks Ashley!)

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Happy Birthday!

Wishing Laila Bagge a very Happy Birthday today! Laila is such an amazing person and I wish her all of the best!

You can leave Laila birthday wishes as a comment to this post!
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"Play" Concert Confusion

This is just to clear up any confusion! Today I signed into Facebook and had a notification that Play posted a concert near me (in New York, New York).



If any of you guys also got this notification on Facebook or iLike, it of course is not the Swedish Play. I looked up this other Play on AmieStreet.com, and I'm pretty sure that this is the Play they are talking about.

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MQ Behind the Scenes - "Give A Little Bit"

Starting on December 8th, you can now view a backstage video of the shoot of the new MQ commercial (Give A Little Bit) with Faye! You have to scroll down the page a bit to see the video.

Click the image below to go to the site.



I have also added a link to Faye's Synk Casting Profile to the Quick Links section on the side.

Huge thanks to Ceylone for the news and links!

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"Everything is from Whyred." - Fanny Hamlin

Click the photo to view the article on the web!


English Translation

Fanny Hamlin, 20 years old from Enskede.

What are you wearing today?
"Everything is from Whyred, except for the stockings which is from H&M."

What colors would you recommend for this fall season?
"Light blue and flowery"





Thanks so much to Mae for e-mailing me about the article, and for the English translation!

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Fanny & Rosanna Photos

Thank you to Mae for e-mailing me these pictures of Rosie and Faye!

Click the images to view them larger.

February - Hope & Whyred Fashion Show

August - Björn Borg Fashion Show

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New Photo of Anna

Here is a new photo of Anna!



Again, thank you to Ashley for sending this over! :)

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Contestant on Idol concerned..

There is an article out about Alice, one of the Swedish Idol finalists, who is concerned that the judges have already found their superstar - Janet Leon.



Thanks to Ashley for e-mailing this to me and to FixYou on the Playful-Play boards for the find and English translation of part of the article.

If you would like to read the whole article please click the photo above!

English translation by FixYou:
"Tonight we'll know who will be in the finale of Idol 2008. But the jury has already found their Swedish superstar - 18 year old Janet Leon who's not even in the contest. Alice is now concerned that the jury is trying to get her out of the way of their own star."

'I know that they (the jury) doesn't want me to sing Pop and RnB songs. That's my style but that style is also Janet's so of course, they don't want me and Janet to have the same style,' says Alice."

And Laila says:
"That's the most stupid thing I have ever heard. It's a shame that she believes in rumours she hears. But of course, she is still young."

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New Photo of Rosanna & Swedish Idol

Here is a picture of Rosanna that was found by Erika, owner of the Playful-Play boards! Thank you to Ashley from Classique for e-mailing it to me!



Also, how many of you guys have been watching or keeping up to date with Swedish Idol? I believe there are only 3 contestants left now! Of course we can't watch it here in the states, so I check the web site to see what's going on.

I still think it was so great that Laila was a (quite big) part of this! :)

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Play Around the Christmas Tree

Play Around the Christmas Tree has been re-released through Music World Productions on October 28th, 2008. The whole album is available for download on iTunes and various other sites.

You can also add and listen to all of the songs through Myspace! It's perfect timing since the holidays are right around the corner. :)




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MQ - "Give A Little Bit"

Thanks so much to Erin and ateensonline.com for this info about the new MQ commercial and the song used in the commercial! Click the image below to go to the web site to see two of MQ's new commercials.



Faye is shown in both of the videos. The first video is a bit longer than the second. There are 9 commercials in total. You can also see a larger version of the commercial at MQ's Official Site.

The following information is from ateensonline.com:
"Last time was 2005 when Marie did a Christmas commercial together with Andreas Wilson. Now she's doing it again. Together with 15 other artists she's singing Supertramps hit ”Give a Little Bit”. The campaign starts today, November 26th, and MQ is hoping for good response. The single will be available for downloading and money will be given to Röda Korset (The Red Cross)."

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Fanny Hamlin on MQ

Faye is featured in yet another MQ commercial, and her biography can be found on their website. Click here to check it out!

Here is somewhat of an English translation of the article.


Fanny Hamlin

"I want to give my family good health so that they’ll always be healthy and stay close to me”

The singer Fanny Hamlin from Enskede, Stockholm, is something of an musical wonderchild. Only twenty years old and she’s already got a career behind her as an international teen star with the group Play, who were signed to the American Columbia Records, not to mention the legendary Tommy Mottola as manager. She got tired of her life as an idol in the US and moved back to Sweden to complete her interrupted gymnasium education (secondary education). As a side job, she’s also worked as a model.Presently, Fanny has put aside the idol career and is currently working with fashion in Whyred (a brand).

“At the moment, I’m just singing for fun with my friends, but I do intend to revive my idol career someday, and the goal is to be able to live on it, of course."

Fanny has been “extremely interested in fashion.” Lately, she’s been adjusted with a different attitude to fashion, which has also become her occupation.

“You get affected by the styles and it becomes different as you grow more familiar with it, even if I don’t follow the new trends obsessively. Getting snowbound (getting deeper) by what you’re doing with can easily happen as well, but I’ve always liked Whyred. Otherwise I like to doll myself up. I don’t own any jeans as I like to walk around in skirts and dresses – and chino pants. Folded chinos are my thing at the moment. It’s sort of gives the preppy look that I like that I’ll continue with for a while.”

A huge thank you to TayTay for e-mailing me the information and the translation, and to Mae for the updated English translation and link!

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Some news about Janet's album..

Ashley, the owner of Classique (a fansite for Janet), has received some news from Janet herself about her upcoming album!

Hey Ashley!

It's so hard to say stuff, with Laila and everyone being the Idol jury. They've got so much press on them all the time. What i can say is that there is going to be ALOT when everything finally comes out. We got enough songs for 3 albums (And they're all good:O) But we've kept pushing and pushing it, to get more hits. We're working up a storm that's gonna blow people away. (Don't mean to sound so kocky (or is it spelled cocky? it just feels like it's referring to something else than what i mean haha) I am soso happy that you guys are still around. I'm actually amazed by your incredible patience, since I know how easy it is to lose interest while waiting for things. So thank you for sticking with me!!! I love you all! You're not gonna be disappointed.

Happy Holidays to you too! It's snowing outside my window, it's so beautiful

♥ J

Thanks Ashley for sharing this with us! :)

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"Janet Leon i studion med Wyclef Jean"

There is an article about Janet on the web site, hotgossip.se. I don't know what the article says since it's in Swedish, but it was posted on October 23rd of this year, so I figured it's pretty recent! If anyone would care to translate this, please e-mail me or leave a comment on this post! The English translation of the article is below!

Click the photo below to go to the article.



*Emily was nice enough to translate the article to English for us!
Thank you so much!

"Janet Leon was formerly with the Swedish girl group Play, which was produced by Laila Bagge. Laila is familiar in this year’s Idol jury.

Now Laila along with Anders Bagge and Andreas Carlsson have formed a new company in which Janet is a solo artist, states Metro (name of company).

Many say she is projected to become another great female international mega star and online, there are clips showing Andreas Carlsson, together with Janet, while she works together with Black Eyed Peas producers and sings acapella with mega star Wycelf Jean.

According to Metro, they do not want any of the Idol-Jury to talk about Janet yet, so to avoid losing focus on this year’s participants in Idol."

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Rosanna Featured on Popjustice.com

Today, Rosanna is featured on Popjustice.com's front page with a great write up! Her song Gameboy is the site's song of the day! Check it out at their site.



Thanks so much to Ashleigh for sending me this information. She says that this web site is one of the most popular UK music sites! It's great to see that Rosanna is gaining the recognition she (as do the other girls) deserve!

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