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Zweedse dame die 5 CD"s heeft gemaakt.
Zij was ook de ex-vrouw van Yngwie Malmsteen
Dit is haar 1e cd.
Poprock met wat AOR invloeden


At one time Swedish AOR-queen Erika Norberg was married to Yngwie Malmsteen, a fact alone guaranteeing her international attention.

However - Erika"s excellent vocals and strong sense of melody resulting in 5 excellent AOR albums, together with her spectacular live shows, not to mention looks, made her one of Swedens biggest rocknroll queens of the 90s with enormous success in many other countries such as Japan and Germany as well. 

Throughout her career Erika has been surrounded by prominent profiles in the Swedish AOR /heavy metal/hard rock-scene, such as Benny Jansson (Talisman), Jonas Sandquist (GLORY), Peter Roth (Yngwie Malmsteen), Peter Norstedt (GARBO), Micke Wennborn, Göran Elmquist, Peo Thyren (Noice, Shaboom, Easy Action) Per Lindvall (ABBA and many others) to name but a few.

Hailing from Skellefteå in Northern Sweden, Erika recorded her first album for the Lionheart label, distributed by Virgin in Scandinavia. The album "Cold winter night" featured songs co-written by the singer with Swedish songwriters such as Warnerbring and Almquist. 

"Together we"re Lost" gave her a huge pop hit in Sweden and both "Hurting So Bad" and "Heavenly" also charted high.The hit single from the record, "Lost In Paradise" was a duet with Eurovision Song Contest entrant Jan Johansen, and the following year Erika changed direction from AOR toward a modern rock chick image for her "Planet X" album, catering for her burgeoning following in Japan. The album "Ripe" was even harder with almost no trace of AOR.