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Janice Kavander
Swedish singer (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Janice Deborah Kavander Kamya (born 29 September 1994[1]), mostly known as Janice, is a Swedish singer.[2]
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Born in Enskede-Årsta-Vantör, on 29 September 1994, to a Ugandan father and a Finnish mother (born in Kemi, to a half-Finnish and half-Dutch family),[3] Janice started studying at Kulturama at the age of eleven and then went to high school at Södra Latin, where she specialized in dancing.[4] She has been a member of the Tensta Gospel Choir since 2009.[5]
She got her breakthrough in music in 2016, when she released the single "Don't Need To", which she also co-wrote.[6] The song was aired a lot on Sveriges Radio, and in 2017 she was named Breakthrough Artist of the Year by Dagens Nyheter's culture section.[7]
She next released the songs "Answer" and "Love You Like I Should", and in the summer of 2017 she participated in the SVT show Allsång på Skansen and the TV4 show Lotta på Liseberg.[8][9]
Later in 2017, she released the singles I Got You, Black Lies, and Queen.[10] Janice performed the United States national anthem on 10 and 11 November 2017 at Globen Arena in Stockholm, when Colorado Avalanche and Ottawa Senators met each other in a game for the 2017 NHL Global Series.[11] At the same event she performed the national anthem of Canada.[11]
Janice sang at the final of the SVT show På spåret for the 2018 season.[12] She also performed her single "Queen" at the P3 Guld gala, which was broadcast both on Sveriges Radio and SVT.[13]
On International Women's Day on 8 March 2019, Janice helped the organization Red Cross to raise awareness of women who live in areas of war and conflict in the world.[14] Janice ended 2018 by performing at Bingolotto on TV4 for the bingo show's Christmas special on 23 December.[15]
In 2019, Janice, along with Sabina Ddumba and Molly Hammar, performed at the Swedish Grammis gala.[16] Janice has a cameo in the film Eld & Lågor, where she performs the ABBA song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!".[17]
On 17 May 2019, she released the single "Hearts Will Bleed", and on 14 June the song "Kisses at Nighttime".[18] Her album I Don't Know A Thing About Love was released on 30 August.[19]
She played the character Bobbi T in the series The Playlist on Netflix.[20]
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