There are at least three artists that are professionally known as "Emilia:" 1. Hanna Emilia Rydberg, a pop singer from Sweden 2. Emilia Valeva (Емилия Вълева), a pop-folk singer from Bulgaria 3. Emilia was the stagename of a finnish pop singer in the 80's. ...show more

There are at least three artists that are professionally known as "Emilia:" 1. Hanna Emilia Rydberg, a pop singer from Sweden 2. Emilia Valeva (Емилия Вълева), a pop-folk singer from Bulgaria 3. Emilia was the stagename of a finnish pop singer in the 80's.

1. Emilia (Hanna Emilia Rydberg) is a Swedish pop singer. She was born on January 5, 1978 in Stockholm. Her father is Ethiopian and her mother is Swedish.

Emilia went on Adolf Fredriks music school in Stockholm and was the singer in an acid jazz band during gymnasium times. The producer Lasse Andersson discovered her and together they wrote all the songs on her first album. She had a big hit with the ballad Big Big World 1998. This song was a great hit across the whole Europe: #1 in charts of Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany; #2 in France, #5 in UK. ...show less