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Timoteij girls are definitely back on the track this year, so even if you don't qualify to Melodifestivalen final it doesn't mean you should be struggling super-hard for your career. Their second album is in Top-10 of Swedish album-chart and band is visiting all possible TV-shows.
The newest one is Sommarlov where girls perfofmed "Stormande Hav", "Ta Mig Till Sommaren" and have proved that they can play their instruments very well making Danny's "Amazing" in Så Ska Det Låta game.
If you've missed Timoteij's performance at TV4's Bingolotto and Nyhetsmorgon I also attach them.

What an unexpected cover we've got! Erik Linder has presented his own ballad version of huge Melodifestivalen-2010 hit "Kom" transforming it from anthemic folk-schlager to absolutely incredible acoustic ballad.
Erik is truly great ballad singer, he has started his career few years ago with ballads and doesn't change direction, no other genre is as good as minimalistic acoustic ballad that lets enjoy his touching vocal so it's another example of Erik's work you're gonna get loads of goosebumps from.
Erik and girls have become good friends after participating in Melodifestivalen, Elina even has taken part in his latest video and now Erik has come up with this stunning cover and I extremely recommend you not to miss it.

Not so long-awaited but definitely long-awaited comeback of Timoteij has become all sorts of fabulous when girls presented their new single "Het" smoking hot folk-schlager dynamite that exploded us this May.
Soon after release we've got new video and now after girls performed at this National Day of Sweden few weeks ago we can see them singing live again in Nyhetsmorgon.
Timoteij has logically performed "Het" and singles "Kom" and "Högt över ängarna" from debut album at open-air stage with live band and it has definitely added loads of Swedish summer atmosphere to this mini-gig (what we love so much in shows like Allsång and Sommarkrysset).

Timoteij are back with brand new single "Het" that will be released already this Sunday and you can already check it on Schlagerprofilerna blog. It sounds as fantastic as loads of tracks from girls' first album but we expect something extra from full version and will better get back to you with final judgement after we'll listen to it in a few days.
And as warm-up I'm gonna tell you about the song Timoteij's carrer has started from, and no, it's not "Kom"! It's "Run" - English version of "Kom" that even wasn't sung by Timoteij then, Erika Selin was singing on that demo-track but here we have Timoteij performing English version. So you can decide yourself if it was a good idea to translate it into Swedish.

Today one of our favorite Swedish Idol participants Erika Selin celebrates 19th birthday, our warmest congratulations come to her and isn't it great for artist to celebrate it with new release?
Erika united forces to reach post-Idol success with another participant of Idol-2009 Patrik Öhlund and they release new single "For You", written by Patrik and his wife Madelene Hamberg-Öhlund.
Idol wasn't the first huge tv-contest for Patrik Öhlund though, he participated in Fame Factory before and used to release some solo-stuff before visiting casting of Idol and reaching public voting unfortunately this rock-fellow wasn't estimated by audience quite well to pass to Friday's evening shows but another part of this duo - Erika Selin has managed and what a brilliant set of performances she has done! Actually Erika wasn't absolutely new for Idol and she tried to enter year ago but failed to reach public voting just one step before it. She didn't waste her time and tried to practice her skills, performing a lot and participating in different contests and that's when she's got to my personal spot - when I've found one of her impressive performances of Sarah Dawn Finer's "Moving On" cover. Finally entering Idol this 18-years old girl showed shockingly stunning vocals giving every week very self-confident strong performance, I was lucky enough to meet her once after her performance and was pleasantly surprised what a sweet, shy and charming person she is in real life.

Soon Erika's list of achievements was filled with performance of huge Melodifestivalen-2009 hit "Kom" demo being sung by Timoteij afterwards. Unfortunately she couldn't participate with this song herself as one of MF-principles is not to involve last season Idols. However Erika would really like to participate in MF in future and that's the wish I totally support as well.

Right now Patrik and Erika supported by label Sweden Songs prepared release of new single "For You", it's a delicate rock-ballad with nostalgic 90s feeling and beautiful instrumental part with a soft touch of Billie Myers' "Kiss the Rain". Let's wish all the best to this new-born duo.