Pandora   (Sweden)

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Added : 12/11/2000
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Latest Pandora news

07/10/2022 : Pandora is the new image for Västerås Citysamverkan shops (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

30/06/2022 : Aladdin did a remix for Pandora's 1995 hit The Naked Sun. The tracks was included on digital compilation Force Of Nature, released earlier this month (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

21/11/2021 : Pandora treamed with Every Green in May and Takomo to record the upcoming Men's World Floorball Championship in Helsinki anthem ! More

25/02/2021 : Teflon Brothers and Pandora were finally not selected to represent Finland at this year's ESC. Discover their performance at Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2021 last February 20th, where they ended #2.

16/01/2021 : Pandora teams with rap trio Teflon Brothers to compete at UMK 2021 with the song I Love You. Winner will be revealed on February 20th and will be sent at Eurovision Song Contest

06/06/2018 : Pandora and Movetron female vocalist Päivi Lepistö were interviewed on Finnish channel MTV news program. Pandora recorded a country album which hasn't been released yet. (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

15/01/2017 : SAIFAM project Lita Brown covered Pandora's 1994 hit Come On And Do It.

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Pandora albums

	One Of A Kind	Oct 1993	BUY X
	Tell The World	1995	BUY X
	Changes (UK version)	1997	BUY X
	Best Of Pandora	1997	BUY X
	Changes	1997	BUY X
	Hitbox	1998	BUY X
	This Could Be Heaven	1998	BUY X
	Blue	1999	BUY X
	Breathe	1999	BUY X
	Pandora Nonstop	1999	BUY X
	No Regrets (Japan only)	Feb 2000	BUY X
	A Little Closer	2001	BUY X
	Won't Look Back	2001	BUY X
	9 Lives (Japanese Version)	2003	BUY X
	Greatest Hits & Remixes	Mar 2004	BUY X
	9 Lives	2005	BUY X
	Celebration	28th Nov 2007	BUY X
	Head Up High	30th Mar 2011	BUY X

Pandora singles

	Trust Me	Jun 1993	BUY X
	Tell The World	1994	BUY X
	Come On And Do It	1994	BUY X
	One Of A Kind	1994	BUY X
	Something's Gone	Apr 1994	BUY X
	One Of Us	1995	BUY X
	Don't You Know	1995	BUY X
	The Naked Sun	1995	BUY X
	It's Alright (Mexico only)	1996	BUY X
	A Little Bit	1996	BUY X
	Smile'n Shine	1997	BUY X
	The Sands Of Time	1997	BUY X
	Single Life	1997	BUY X
	Show Me What You Got	1997	BUY X
	Spirit To Win	1998	BUY X
	This Could Be Heaven	1998	BUY X
	U Drive Me Crazy	1998	BUY X
	Mr Right	1998	BUY X
	Bright Eyes	1998	BUY X
	No Regrets	1999	BUY X
	You'll Be Allright (Japan only)	21st Jan 1999	BUY X
	You Don't Want To Know (Japan only)	21st Apr 1999	BUY X
	Don't Worry (Germany)	2001	BUY X
	I Need To Know	2001	BUY X
	When I'm Over You	2002	BUY X
	I Won't Look Back	2002	BUY X
	You	Mar 2003	BUY X
	Don't Worry (Sweden)	Jun 2003	BUY X
	Runaway	2004	BUY X
	I'm Confused	2004	BUY X
	A Love Like This Promo only	2005	BUY X
	Kitchy Kitchy (feat Bloom 06)	25th Sep 2009	BUY X
	You Believed (feat Matt Hewie)	May 2010	BUY X
	You Woke My Heart (feat JS16)	16th Feb 2011	BUY X
	Why Magistral (feat. Stacy)	Jul 2011	BUY X
	I Feel Alive	18th Oct 2013	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	United DJ's - Trust Me	2006	BUY X
	United DJ's - Don't You Know 2007	4th Feb 2007	BUY X
	United DJ's - Tell The World 2007	22nd Aug 2007	BUY X
	United DJ - On A Night Like This	Nov 2007	BUY X
	Deejay Jay - Call Me	2008	BUY X
	Teflon Brothers - I Love You	15th Jan 2021	BUY X
	Every Green in May - More	19th Nov 2021	BUY X
	Roope Salminen & Koirat - Laiffi Är Nu	11th Oct 2024	BUY X

Compositions

Pandora - A Little Bit

1996

BUY X

Pandora biography

Pandora's real name is Karin Anneli Catarina Pandora Magnusson. Like many artists, she is told to be singing before she could talk. 'My mother has told me that it was my father who discovered my musical talent. I was still a baby at the time - I was already singing melodies then, long before I could speak.'

Her childhood was characterized by a love of music. Pandora's parents lived with their 5 children in Björkbacken, a small town in central Sweden. In the family's living room there was always a guitar hanging on the wall and in the corner stood an imposing electric organ. 'When I was about 9 years old I began making music at home with my brother. We lived in a fairly remote area of the country and there were very few children to play with in the afternoons, so we had plenty of time to make music.'

Pandora discovered contemporary rock and pop music in all its facets. She began to like the folk songs of the likes of Bob Dylan and adored the lascivious guitar-playing and blues-orientated voice of Eric Clapton. Her greatest idol however was always Mark Knopfler. 'I just loved the Dire Straits song Sultans Of Swing. My older brothers and sisters would listen to the album and I really came to love that particular song. I would sit in my room and try to copy the solo on my acoustic guitar. You can imagine how difficult that was.'

When she was 14, the dedicated vegetarian occasionally performed Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens songs in a nearby cafe, which brought her first-hand experience of performing 'live'. Some time later she went in search of people on the same wavelength and sang funk, soul and gospel songs in various bands.

At the age of 16 Pandora began to study classical vocal technique, classical guitar and theory of music at the College of Music in Västerås, a small town not far from Stockholm. Today she says that it was especially the atmosphere at that college which was so good for her and influenced her in a lasting way. It was there that she experienced living, seemingly limitless creativity. 'All of the students had the same passion for music, and I was able to play with really brilliant people. That was exactly what I had always wanted all my life. I learned how to compose there, to read music and to understand the theoretical basics. However, I did not particularly enjoy music theory, because it seemed to me to take away much of the necessary spontaneity needed in music.'

During this period, she was introduced to Hit Vision, the three producers Martin Ankelius, Peter Johansson and Henrik Andersson, who were looking for a suitable female singer for their melodic dance music compositions. The music college recommended their student Pandora, who turned out to be the ideal candidate to perform the trio's ideas of contemporary pop music.

Pandora's commercial career finally began in the winter of 1993/94. In Autumn 1993 she signed a contract with a Swedish record company and released her debut single Trust Me, which went straight into the Swedish charts. Written and produced by Sir Martin & The Dr. Maxx Family, Trust Me became the best-selling local single of the year and went gold, thereby exceeding the achievements of Ace of Base, among others. The corresponding album, One Of A Kind, was released in October 1993, bringing the singer further fame and achieving gold status in both Sweden and Finland - making Pandora the best-selling dance act in Scandinavia.

Come On And Do It came in 1994. Music and lyrics were written by Hendrik Anderson (Peter Johannson wrote the B-side Get Your Chance). Raps were done by K-Slim. It was produced by Dr. Maxx Family, co-produced by T.O.E.C. The executive producer was Sir Martin. It was recorded at Stocksund in October 1993.

Two years later Pandora landed yet another gold disc with her follow-up album Tell The World. In Scandinavia sales of the album again exceeded the 100,000 mark. In addition, Japanese audiences turned out to be very enthusiastic about Pandora. Tell The World sold over 500.000 copies in the land of the rising sun.

Her third album Changes was Pandora's worldwide debut release with her new record company Universal Music. Pandora once again collaborated with her creative trio of Ankelius/Andersson/Johansson and the result was an album packed full of great dance tunes, which sold more than 360,000 copies in Japan and went platinum there. What's more, the English 'Metro' producer team, which was responsible for Gina G.'s international success, contributed the remix for three songs and two new titles to the European version of the album, which then went gold in Finland with the singles taken from the album reaching the Top Ten of the Finnish charts.

The album was released in the UK with 2 extra tracks. It included a special guest appearance on Any Time Of Season by George Cole. The back up vocals were done by Lotten Andersson (from Flexx), Carina Carlsson, Erika Essen-Moller, Lilling Palmeklint. All tracks except Single Life, You'll Always Be The Love Of My Life and Love And Glory were written, produced and mixed by Sir Martin, Huma & Peka for Hit Vision Productions, Sweden. A Little Bit and Why were co-written by Pandora. Single Life was written by P. Hoglgate and Mark Taylor. You'll Always Be The Love Of My Life was written by Paul Barry and Mark Taylor. Love And Glory was written by Pandora, Kee Marcello and Mats Nyman. The album was recorded and mixed at Dreamhouse Studios, London.

Pandora went on tour through Scandinavia in the spring and summer of 1997 and did her first 2-week live tour through the main cities of Japan, where she always played to sell-out venues.

Then along came the next long-player This Could Be Heaven, gathering 14 dance and up-tempo tracks. It went platinum in Japan within six weeks. Yet again produced mainly by her long-term partners, Hit Vision, 'Metro Productions', and this time also Mats Nyman. This Could Be Heaven set a new course in Pandora's career. For the first time, she had written three of the songs herself, arranged and produced by songwriter Mats Nyman, the keyboarder with Pandora's live band.

When Pandora recorded and released the official German TV ARD Olympic ballad Spirit To Win in 1998 for the Winter Olympics in Nagano her best-of album Pandora's Hit Box was released, also in 1998.

In September 1998 Universal Australia released the Pandora single A Little Bit, which went gold in 1999. As a result of this fantastic success in such a far-away place, Pandora went Down Under for the first time in her life, where she played all the big cities (Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane) and later released an 'Australia only' album - entitled Blue, a compilation of songs from the albums Changes, This Could Be Heaven and Breathe.

At the beginning of 1999 there followed the next studio album Breathe, which due to unforeseen circumstances was only released in Japan. This was a great shame, as Breathe presented a new, more rock-orientated Pandora, which was partly a result of working together with ex-Europe guitarist Kee Marcello. Because she started as a rock singer as a teenager she felt a need of expressing that side of her but mixed with cool dance beats made by the producer Daniel Papalexis.

Now it was time for a new Pandora album. Entitled No Regrets, it was recorded between August and November 1999 and was initially released in February 2000 in Japan, and later internationally. An album which is again dedicated more to dance rhythms and yet another result of Pandora's fantastic collaboration with people like Kee Marcello, Mats Nyman, Metro and Papalexis. Pandora is particularly happy that Metro is again on board, with the team's recent successes in landing mega-hits for Cher, Celine Dion, Tina Turner etc.

On No Regrets Pandora has once again contributed some of her own songs, and on the track Close To You she can be heard playing the guitar for the first time on her own album. Pandora, who now lives in a big 200-year-old country house 40 km south of Västerås, wrote several of the songs with various people also involved in the album - such as Mats Nyman, Kee Marcello, Kurt Sahlén, Peter Bladh, Daniel Papalexis and Kadir Taysir. Worthy of special mention on the album are the songs Close To You, it was a poem written by the Swedish journalist Björn Stenvall, which Pandora arranged for the guitar; Be My Man, produced by Papalexis, the tune which was written by Katharina Lass but with new lyrics from Pandora; the track Midnight Sun, Pandora's homage to the winter and almost an advertising song for her homeland ...and No Regrets the title song of the album.

An interesting point is the song On A Night Like This. It was written during the recordings in the studio for Pandora. About six months later she started to get mails from fans on her homepage saying : how come Kylie Minogue has released your song ? Because of different contractual circumstances the writers had giving it both to Kylie and another artist called Ana Vissi from Greece. That created some troubles for Pandora for a while and the result was that both Pandora and Ana lost the game. Anyhow, Pandora is not the type who gives up easily. Instead she started up her own record label Westridge Music, together with her husband whom she married on April 30 2000.

The album A Little Closer was born during the fall 2000 and it was released on Universal in Japan in February 2001. "It was a big struggle from day one" ; she says. "I always use to have three writing /producing teams involved to be able to finish the record within four months. That's how I have to work to keep the "one record a year" tradition; she explains". This was again another up-tempo Pandora album but with a stronger mix of club tracks, pop songs, some gospel influences and 2 step. Kee Marcello was the man behind the tougher rave beats on the album and Mats Nyman was slicker in his productions. Pandora's new writers were Tomas Jansson and his colleague Leif Sundin. The day before Christmas the album was ready to be sent off to Japan.

In September 2000 Pandora started a nine months long conscious breathing course. She also joined a Gospel choir in her neighbourhood but what she saw as the biggest challenge is the motorcycle license ! "I’ve been talking about how cool it would be to drive the bike since I was sixteen. I thought it was time to do something about it".

2001 : in December, she was back with a new single called Don't Worry. Won't Look Back was her album number eight. She presented all her best material for EMI in Finland and they agreed on a deal. It was released in Scandinavia and Germany, Austria and Switzerland to start with "I’m sure the fans will recognise me but hopefully they will feel that I've grown as a singer and as a person; she says". This album contained songs from Brian Rawling (Metro Production), Kee Marcello, Diane Warren, Mats Nyman and Art Garfunkel. You can hear a pretty different version of his wonderful song Bright Eyes.

2004 : after a Greatest Hits album released in March, Pandora took part to the Swedish pre-eliminatory contest for the Eurovision. Her song was entitled Runaway. Unfortuntaly she was not selected for the final. In an interview she admitted to be very disappointed, since she had given everything she had in this live appearance. During Autumn, she released her new single I'm Confused which peaked up to #6 in Sweden. She gave birth to her son Leon. Father was Per Broman.

2005 : Pandora released her brand new album 9 Lives.

2006 : a new version of Trust Me (Vasco & Millboy) was released to the clubs in Sweden in June. The album title will be DJ United v/s Pandora. Then Don't You Know was remixed by United DJs and it will be released on the 19th January.

2007 : the song chosen to represent UK at Eurovision Song Contest (Flying The Flag by Scooch) had some similarities with Pandora's song No Regrets. Pandora is on tour in Mallorca promoting the new single Tell The World 2007.

Pandora is risking prison between 6 month and 6 years after beeing accused for serious tax offence. She has swindled the Swedish State in non payed taxes of 1,4 million SEK (about 140,000 €) in 2000 and 2001 (she is no longer punishable for earlier years). In the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, she blamed her former husband who used to take care of all her economics, accusing him of fooling her.

Pandora's new single will be On A Night Like This 2007. Release dates confirmed for the new 16-tracks album titled Celebration were on 7 November 2007 in Finland and 28 November 2007 in Sweden.

2008 : Pandora was featured by Deejay Jay on a new single entitled Call Me, a cover of the Spagna hit

2009 : Pandora is working on some new tracks for her future album which should be out at the end of 2009. She featured Bloom 06 (former Eiffel 65) on the single Kitchy Kitchy

2010 : Pandora's video for her new single You Believed, collaboration with DJ Matt Hewie, was ready.

2011 : in February, Pandora's new single  You Woke My Heart (featuring JS16) hit the stores. YLE TV was preparing a documentary about Pandora, to be shot in Sweden. Her new album was entitled Head Up High and was released in Finland on March 30th. In June, Pandora announced on her Facebook account that she was shooting the video for her new single. In July, she released her new single Why (Magistral), a collaboration with Russian singer Stacy.

2012 : Pandora did vocals on X3M's song Drottningen av Åland

2014 : Pandora released her new single I Feel Alive.

2017 : her hit Come On And Do It was covered by Italian project Lita Brown.

Pandora Official Site
Thanks to Roger Nordin - Pandora Online Info
Thanks to Martina - Pandora Unofficial website
Thanks to reBeL, Queequeg, Cyber-Dance, Klems, Mikoo, Necronomic, Tavi Meran, Kamil Ostrowski, Anton "MC Ka$per" Skaletsky and Anders Bøgh for the latest infos

Pandora biography was last updated Wed, January 6th 2021

Charts (singles)

Trust Me			#8	#3
Come On And Do It				#5
One Of A Kind				#33
Tell The World				#5
Something's Gone				#18
Don't You Know				#7
The Naked Sun				#29
One Of Us				#13
A Little Bit	#10	#3		#28
Smile'n Shine				#45
You				#56
I'm Confused				#6
Trust Me				#2
Don't You Know 2007		#4		#1
Tell The World 2007		#12		#7
On A Night Like This				#3

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