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Robyn

Robyn started out as a teenage pop singer in Stockholm, hitting it big in the mid-90s with "Show Me Love" before she was out of her teens. What makes her story unusual is what came after: unhappy with how her career was being run, she set up her own label and remade herself on her own terms, turning out sharp, emotionally direct dance-pop like "With Every Heartbeat" and "Dancing on My Own." That run of self-made records made her one of the clearest influences on the pop that followed in the 2010s.

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Body Talk (2010). It collects the best of her 2010 run of releases into one record, including "Dancing on My Own," "Call Your Girlfriend," and "Hang with Me" — sad, precise, and built for the dance floor all at once.

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Biography

Robin Miriam Carlsson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈrɔ̌bːɪn ˈkɑ̌ːɭsɔn]; born 12 June 1979), known professionally as Robyn (pronounced [ˈrɔ̌bːʏn]), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and producer. Musically, she is noted for performing upbeat dance-oriented songs that often feature melancholic lyrics, and has been called the "stateswoman of alt-pop" by The Guardian.

Her 1995 debut album Robyn Is Here produced two Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles: "Do You Know (What It Takes)" and "Show Me Love". Her second and third albums, My Truth (1999) and Don't Stop the Music (2002), were released in Sweden. After forming her own label, Konichiwa Records, and becoming an independent artist, Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, Robyn (2005). The album brought a Grammy Award nomination and spawned the singles "Be Mine!" and "With Every Heartbeat" – the latter of which topped the charts in the United Kingdom.

Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums in 2010, with all parts culminating in her seventh studio album, Body Talk (2010).

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