Lena
Andersson
LATEST ALBUM RELEASE:
OPEN YOUR HEART
Lena did her TV debut in Hylands Hörna, a type of Ed Sullivan show, in April of 1971. Frontpage and headlines the day after in the newspapers. Jojje Wadenius, famous guitarplayer that played with Blood, Sweat & Tears played with her.
Lena's first hit, number one with a bullet. From nowhere to stardom.... A Swedish version of Buffy Saint-Marie's "I'm gonna be a country girl again"
She went on her first tour that same year, starting in June and playing 79 different venues. She was 16. Headlines again, she was going to make all this money....
Lena recorded some of ABBA's songs for the German market. Here she's singing "Fernando" in Hamburg in "Hitparade" probably 1975
From Gröna Lund, Stockholm that first summer.
From the big stage with Visavi and backstage
getting flowers.
Competing for the Swedish qualifying round for the Eurovision Song Contest 1977
Some pics from the 70's....
 Lena was nominated for a grammy 1971 for her first album in the debutant category. Here she is with Stig Anderson, Benny Andersson from ABBA, and Lee Hazelwood leaning in. |  Lena and Lennart Hyland |  Tokyo at a little lunch concert in a park |
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 Stig Anderson, Don Costa and Lena |  Getting ready to go on tour with Ted G 1972 |  Lena and Ted Gärdestad on tour 1972 |
 |  On tour 1971 |  Melodifestivalen 1972Lena entered the Melody festival 1972 with "Säj det med en sång" written by Björn & Benny. They're in the audience with Stig Andersson. |
 Artist lieutenants with a mission to entertain the UN soldiers 1974 |  In Istanbul with Kjelle Bergqvist, Pelle Berglund, Lalla Hansson och Ted Åström 1977 for a film and music festival where we competed |  Lena and Lalla Hansson at the big stage at Skansen around 1975 |
 Lena in Italy 1975 |  Magazine picture |  Singing in the Sinai desert with Brita Borg |
 Lena with her translator Keiko in Tokyo. |  Singing live in a park outdoors in Tokyo together with some of the other contestants. |  One of Lena's first performances after she became famous spring of 1971 |
 Lena with Björn & Benny in the studio. |  Singing with Lalla Hanson and Lasse Finberg at a club. |  Singing at Rhodes, Greece with Sven-Erik Magnusson and Hansi Schwarz. Probably 1975. |
 Rhodes, Greece 1975 |  |  |
 Lena and Lalla Hansson on stage. |  Lena went to sing with the Fieldartists twice. Here with Brita Borg in Israel 1975. They sang for the UN soldiers in the Sinai desert and at the Gaza strip. |  Lena even did a LUX commercial. They paid really good plus they sent her soap for years.. |
 Here with Titti Sjöblom 1974 in the Sinai desert where they performed for Swedish, Finnish and Canadian UN soldiers. Through Cairo and over the Suez canal into the Sinai desert they traveled as "leutenants". |  In Halmstad Lena's hometown 1972 |  Singing in Caracas, Venezuela in 1973 at a music festival. Lena went there together with Frida from ABBA and Stig Anderson. |
 Singing at Tokyo Music Festival 1972. |  Tokyo 1972. |  Lena and Ted Gärdestad at a photo shoot for a magazine. Ted, a singer/songwriter and one year younger became a huge star. |
 Stig Anderson and Lena in Tokyo 1972. The song "Better to have loved" that she performed and that was written by Björn & Benny won first prize in the Tokyo Music Festival. |  Lena with some of the other contestants at the Tokyo Music Festival. Julio Iglesias and Rick Springfield among others. |  Singing at the Trubadur Festival of Västervik, 1971. |
 One of Lena's very first performances in the spring of 1971. |  Golden Record for her first album Lena 15. |  Newspaper picture with Lena and her parents. |
 With her mom and dad in the background. |  Signing her first album at a record store in her hometown Halmstad. |  Proud dad drove the car to Lena's very first performance. |
Every year in January it was time to plan for the summer tour.
Here are some of the artists that Lena toured with and some other shows as well....
Lena toured with Lalla Hansson from 1975 to 1980.
In the winter of 1972 Lena did a show at Kronprinsen i Malmoe with Lasse Holmquist as the host. The other artists were Bosse Parnevik and Bengt Sändh.
Lena did a show in West Berlin for German TV called "Schwedenmädel" with Lill Lindfors, Lill-Babs, Sylvia Vrethammar, Titti Sjöblom, Nina Lizell.
In 1974 Lena toured 14 cities in East Germany with Sten & Stanley and James Hollingworth & Karin Ljungman.
Lena and Tomas Ledin toured the summer of 1974
Lena and Tomas Ledin
1973 Lena toured with Landslaget
Landslaget
Lena's first Folk Park tour in the summer of 1971 with the group Visavi
In 1977 Lena went on ABBA's first World Wide Tour around Europe and Australia.
These are just a few of Lena's personal pictures from the tour and they're all from Australia.
 Break time |  Lena, Lena-Maria and Maritza |
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 Agneta and Björn |  The eagle has landed |
 Clabbe the sound guy |  Björn & Benny at boat |
 Björn |  Malando Gassama & Ola Brunkert |
 Frida and Benny |  Lasse Wellander |
 Lena-Maria and Lena having a break |
Singing at a church outside Stockholm with Tor-Björn Frisk piano and Lars Tarzan Gustafsson guitar.
Lena singing "Tonight at Lite Grand" i Örat, TV show hosted by ABBA- Frida and Clabbe. And they're singing backing vocals.
"Svenska Journalen" cover 1986. Lena was 31 and had just got saved the year before
With Slim Notini's bluesband
Oskarshamn's square 1986 singing for Jesus
Singing and preaching in the street in Madrid
Lena went on a concert and gospel tour all around Albania 1995 with Word of Life
Singing at the square in Oskarshamn
Singing at the square in Halmstad invited by Per Gessle, Roxette 1995
Worship with the choir at Livets Ord, (Word of Life, Uppsala)
Leading worship in Athens, Greece in Greek 1997. She spent 6 months there helping Urban and Susanne Wikström that had started a Word of Life church there
Lena was in the very popular TV show "Så det ska låta" in year 2000 and she also performed in different places. Picture from singing with "Nissan Jazzband" at "Nalen" in Halmstad, Sweden. She did a sold out Christmas concert with them the same year and she also participated in a Jazz festival in her hometown Halmstad with them the same year.
She got married in 2001 and moved to Southern California. She lived with her husband Tobe north of San Diego for 6 years and she sang a lot in their church New Venture Christian Fellowship in Oceanside. The pictures below are from their annual Easter Morning Service at the beach in Oceanside with 8000 people in the audience.You can watch the video where she sing "He lives". Also picture from her singing in the church.On piano Lester Abrams that wrote a hit for the Doobie Brothers.
In 2007 Lena and Tobe moved to Northern California to Central Valley and the little town Turlock. They lived there for 4 years and this picture is from a Women's Retreat where Lena did a concert in 2010. It was at a camp close to Santa Cruz, CA. Click the picture to hear one of the songs..God Bless the Child and click here to hear Glorify Your name from the same concert