She was born in 1974, raised in a small suburb called Skälby outside Stockholm.
Her "career" started in school, 1983, where we had singing competitions. Her family ruled these competitions for five years…(smiling)
Her sister, Helena born in 1971, was the one starting to sing and making her sing as well. Very non-psychological, their mother told her she did not have talent for it…but that Alexandra did.
She then immediately stopped singing, Alexandra continued.
In 1987, she participated another competition. This was in Valdemarsvik, hometown of her mom and grandmother. Winning this one gave her the opportunity to record a demo.
One year later she went to Skara, doing their competition. A great learning-lesson, you cannot win them all…
This same year she met her band, Coast. Four great guys, a lot older than she was. They taught her a lot, amongst other that she was obstinate. At the time, she did not know the meaning of that word.
"Folkparkernas Talangjakt" was in 1990. This was a countrywide competition. Winning this one gave her many advantages, also money to buy her first studio.
There were a lot of record deals circulating after this but she acted very mature and told everyone that school was too important not to attend. Her school, Södra Latin, was a music high school.
This is where she met Lena Jinnegren. They started singing together; the duo "Lena & Alexandra" still exists today, not as active though.
She played in lots of different bands, was a soloist in a choir called Ten Sing, member of a quartet called "Stage Four", in a trio called Mama Moose and other constellations, when I, after ending school, decided to work as a music teacher.
Teaching AND touring became too much after more than five years of double work. She had to make a choice. She said goodbye to my students, then "Lena & Alexandra" went to Northern Norway.
The first tour was in November 1997. They had a couple of fantastic years up north. She guesses they did well over five hundred gigs there.
The duo also went to Kosovo and Macedonia, year 2001 and 2002, playing for KFOR soldiers.
2002 was the year she started playing at the Viking Line ships, doing about 100 gigs every year there. She still do things in between...mostly gigs in Sweden, Finland and Norway and of course,
the debut album:)
"AS GOOD AS IT GETS "
She started touring by herself, in 2000, still doing it - loving it.
