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Robyn Biography

Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, Robyn Is Here, which 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. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, Robyn (2005), which brought critical praise and a Grammy Award nomination. The album spawned the singles "Be Mine!" and the UK number one "With Every Heartbeat". Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums in 2010, known as the Body Talk series. They received broad critical praise, three Grammy Award nominations, and produced three top-10 singles: "Dancing On My Own", "Hang with Me" and "Indestructible". Robyn followed this with two collaborative EPs: Do It Again (2014) with Röyksopp, and Love Is Free (2015) with La Bagatelle Magique.

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I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Convey, Emotion, Genuine, Real, Trying

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

Felt, Good, Integrity, Like, Real, Song

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

Marketing, Important, Music

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

Commercial, Commercial Music, Mean, People, Personality

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

Goal, Music, Nice, Set, Space

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

Exist, Intend, Long, People, Time, World

When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.

Become, Nerd, Studio, Studios, Total

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

Able, Dance, Document, Existence, Infinite, Moments

You cant censor peoples dreams.

Dream, Cant, Censor, Dreams, Peoples

My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.

Entered, Fun, Grew, Independent, Thinking, Watching

So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.

Eye, Moving, Opposition, Powerful, Steps, Stop

People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

Exercise, Forcing, Meant, People, Thinking

All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.

Combine, Facts, Forgot, Maybe, People, Years

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity. So maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise. I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Easy, Emotion, Integrity, Real, Song, World

When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.

Littles, Songwriting, Space, Took, Tools

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

Enough, Excited, People, Pop, Stuff, World

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world. '

Artist, Create, Doe, Envision, World

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

Masterpiece, Mother, Mother Nature, Orchid, Orchids

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young. " But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

People, Seriously, Think, Thinking, Young

Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

Everything, Happen, People, Thinking, Waiting

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