Hedin (Nana)   (Sweden)

EuroDance member
Added : 20/11/2001
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Latest Nana Hedin news

26/09/2023 : After the first jaw reconstructive surgery in India last year, Nana Hedin will soon undergo the second surgery, this time in the US, to secure her new jaw. She needs help from you again to save her voice

18/12/2022 : Nana Hedin is releasing the complete recording of the last Xmas concert she performed in 2007 before her cancer was diagnosed. You can get it if you donate to sponsor her next surgeries, rehab and medications

28/09/2022 : DJ Crayfish did a megamix of the greatest hits to which Nana Hedin contributed. Nana is undergoing a heavy surgery today, so let's all keep our fingers crossed for her. You can also help her by financing her stay at hospital through Gofundme

15/01/2022 : Nana Hedin also launched a Gofundme page to collect funds to allow her travel to India for the surgery that could save her voice. You can also donate through the other links on her official website.

01/01/2022 : E-type and Dr Alban vocalist Nana Hedin is still fighting to recover her voice after surviving a tongue cancer, then being diagnosed with osteoradionecrosis caused by the treatment. She needs a surgery, which will be performed in India, and needs your help

21/06/2018 : As former E-type and Dr Alban vocalist Nana Hedin's last fund campaign was cancelled by Facebook, she needs you to donate again to help her fight against the consequences of her cancer.

15/06/2018 : After all these years without getting any recognition, eurodance diva Hedin Nana finally got a Denniz Pop Awards for Most Valuable Person.

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Nana Hedin albums

	Made In Sweden	1994	BUY X
	The Explorer	1995	BUY X
	Last Man Standing	1998	BUY X
	Euro IV Ever	2001	BUY X

Nana Hedin singles

	Fame 2000	2000	BUY X
	It's Raining Men (on compilation Absolute HitMania)	2004	BUY X
	Wherever You Go	Mar 2005	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Ace of Base - Life Is A Flower		BUY X
	5ive - Slam Dunk Da Funk		BUY X
	Gary Barlow - SuperHero		BUY X
	Gary Barlow - Twelve Months Eleven Days (album)		BUY X
	Papa Dee - The Tide is High		BUY X
	Papa Dee - First Cut is The Deepest		BUY X
	Papa Dee - Just Let the Music		BUY X
	Stakka Bo - Living it Up		BUY X
	Pavarotti & Friends - Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia & Tibet		BUY X
	Britney Spears - You Drive Me Crazy		BUY X
	Britney Spears - Born to Make You Happy		BUY X
	Britney Spears - Baby One More Time		BUY X
	Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again		BUY X
	Britney Spears - Stronger		BUY X
	Céline Dion - That's The Way It Is		BUY X
	Céline Dion - I'm Alive		BUY X
	Stakka Bo - Supermarket (album)	1993	BUY X
	Stakka Bo - Here We Go	1993	BUY X
	Stakka Bo - Down The Drain	1993	BUY X
	Cool New Sound - Livin' In The 90's	1993	BUY X
	Flexx - Wake Up	1993	BUY X
	Amadin - Take Me Up (Alrabaiye)	1993	BUY X
	Estelle Milburne - Light Me Up	1994	BUY X
	Ardis - Love Addict (album)	1994	BUY X
	Dr Alban - Look Who's Talking	Feb 1994	BUY X
	Dr Alban - Away From Home	May 1994	BUY X
	E-Type - Set The World On Fire	18th Jul 1994	BUY X
	Dr Alban - Let The Beat Go On	Aug 1994	BUY X
	Dana Dragomir - Pandana (album)	1995	BUY X
	Papa Dee - The Journey (album)	1995	BUY X
	E-Type - This Is The Way	Mar 1995	BUY X
	Safe - Love Is All We Need	15th May 1995	BUY X
	Herbie - I Believe	8th Jun 1995	BUY X
	Concept Of Sound - Share A Piece Of Your Heart	1996	BUY X
	E-Type - Free Like A Flying Demon	Sep 1996	BUY X
	DJ Bobo - World In Motion (album)	30th Sep 1996	BUY X
	Elephant And Castle - Wake Up (C.L.U.B. Unite)	1997	BUY X
	E-Type - Calling Your Name	Feb 1997	BUY X
	E-Type - Back In The Loop	4th Apr 1997	BUY X
	Ace of Base - Flowers (album)	1998	BUY X
	5ive - 5ive: The Album (album)	1998	BUY X
	Elephant And Castle - DJ Keep This Feeling	1998	BUY X
	Graaf - You Got What I Want	1998	BUY X
	E-Type - Angels Crying	28th Oct 1998	BUY X
	E-Type - Here I Go Again	26th Nov 1998	BUY X
	Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (album)	1999	BUY X
	E-Type - Hold Your Horses	11th Sep 1999	BUY X
	Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again (album)	2000	BUY X
	Britney Spears - Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know	2000	BUY X
	Aqua - Aquarius (album)	2000	BUY X
	Aqua - Cartoon Heroes	31st Jan 2000	BUY X
	Aqua - Around The World	17th Apr 2000	BUY X
	Aqua - We Belong To The Sea	13th Nov 2000	BUY X
	A*Teens - Half Way Round the World	2001	BUY X
	Britney Spears - Britney (album)	2001	BUY X
	E-Type - Life	Oct 2001	BUY X
	E-Type - Euro IV Ever (album)	21st Nov 2001	BUY X
	Céline Dion - New Day Has Come (album)	2002	BUY X
	E-Type - Africa	17th Mar 2002	BUY X
	Garou - One Woman Man	2003	BUY X
	Céline Dion - One Heart (album)	2003	BUY X
	E-Type - Loud Pipes Save Lives (album)	2004	BUY X
	E-Type - Paradise	15th Mar 2004	BUY X
	Céline Dion - On ne change pas	2005	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

NaNa D'Aquini - Fame

2000

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Nana Hedin biography

Nana Hedin Pranschke was born on the 24th of May 1968 in Eskilstuna, in Södermanland county in Sweden. She started singing at the very early age of 3, then as she was only five she did her first performance at the childrens' day Festival.

Between 1988-1991, Nana was a member of the band Chris at the Moment. In 1992 she started to work with Dr Alban on his tours around the world. The next year she joined Swedish comedian and author Jonas Gardell, taking part to 4 big live shows, TV shows and albums.

"The fact that I'm not a skinny woman, dancing and running around like crazy in the show, has had a big impact on the female audience, writing letters about how important it has been for them to see a larger woman on stage, feeling good about herself. It has also been important for me to see their positive reactions and it has made me a better performer", NaNa says.

Female vocalist for E-Type, she also took part to the projects Safe (Love Is All We Need) and Amadin (Take Me Up), to the realization of DJ Bobo's album World In Motion and to Flexx's single Wake Up. She also made some backvocals for the worldfamous panflute musician Dana Dragomir, the Graaf sisters (You Got What I Want in 1998). Sometimes, she was so sought after that she had to take part to several groups at the same times ! For instance, in the summer of 1997 she was touring with E-type and Jonas Gardell. She was very busy but managed to take a short trip with Dr. Alban as well to Egypt for a one night gig.

Despite the fact that she participated these worldwide hits, she remained unknown to ordinary people.

Nana sang on one of the songs to the Swedish movie "Bert - den sista oskulden". That song was made by Michael B Tretov (who also stands behind ABBA). Commercials like "RFSU" in 1993 and the company "Norwegian Adelsten" also contributed to make her voice very popular. She has been working as a streetmusician and has been singing some blues as well.

Then Nana Hedin focused on a solocareer, saying she did not dare to dream about the future. Her very first solo song was called I'm Alive, that Nana co-wrote, along with the two musicians Mikael Hujanen and Johan Nilsson. "And I prefer not to make pure dancemusic only, she says.". Not a good news for eurodance fans...

Among her favourite artists are Sting and Gladys Knight, to name a few. "I Saw a Dan Reed concert a few days ago... ooh, it was awesome" she explains. She loves all movies by Luc Besson (and Eric Serra's music) and another favorite of her is Rumblefish with Mickey Rourke. She has freckles in the summertime and blue wonderful sparkling eyes. She is 1,56 m tall. Blue is her favorite colour and she loves to watch the moon, so she tattoed a blue moon in a "DreamCatcher" on her shoulderblade. She loves to eat Thai-food and pasta. When she is traveling she usually collects masks from the countries she's visited. She loves scuba-diving.

2001 : Nana contributed to Britney Spears album Britney as backing vocalist. The same year she released the single Fame 2000 under the name NaNa D'Aquini. A new name because NaNa wanted to separate her work on the single from her work as a backvocalist. A video was shot in Las Vegas. The song was played both in clubs, radio and on tv in Sweden. The song became very popular with the gay club scene, climbed to nr.5 on the Swedish Dance Chart and stayed there for four weeks. There was no album made, since Nana and her records company realized they couldn't find a song good enough for a second single : "I would rather make no album, then a bad album", she says. The same year, NaNa did backing vocals on A-Teens' Teen Spirit album.

2003 : Nana did backing vocals on Celine Dion's album New Day Has Come.

2004 : Nana Hedin is back with E-type ! She appeared on stage with him, singing his brand new single Paradise... The same year she released a cover of It's Raining Men (originally by the Weather Girls) on the compilation Absolute HitMania.

2005 : Nana will do a solo perfomance with the song Wherever You Go at the Swedish Eurovision pre-contest.

2007 : shen opened the Swedish Sport Awards in 2007 by singing Pink Floyd's The Great Gig in the Sky, in front of the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. In September of the same year, she participated in the musical game show Doobidoo on SVT, and paired up with Janne Carlsson. She performed Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing, with Janne Carlsson on the drums.

2008 : she participated in the TV musical game show Så ska det låta. She paired up with Fred Johansson against Sarah Dawn Finer and Patrik Isaksson

2009 : Nana Hedin was diagnosed with a stage 4 malignant cancer of the tongue, after being wrongly diagnosed by several specialists in 2008. The treatment saved her tongue, but side effect of the massive radiotherapy treatment was osteoradionecrosis of her jaw.

2018 : Nana received a Denniz Pop Awards for Most Valuable Person.

2023 : after the first jaw reconstructive surgery in India the previous year, Nana planned to undergo a second surgery, this time in the US, to secure her new jaw.

Thanks to reBeL
Nana Hedin bio by 1720 and Jo
Thanks to Ewa for NaNa's offical website

Nana Hedin biography was last updated Wed, February 14th 2024

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