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After full Autumn in a TV-cocoon of "Så Mycket Bättre" Petra Marklund is coming out from TV-screens to spotlights praised by people and media being invited to awards and new TV-shows. During latest visiting of ELLE magazine annual party Petra has become not only guest but was awarded as Best dressed female artist. Salem al Fakir was awarded as Best dressed male artist that night. Another latest appearance of Petra was at Grammis awards and proving her new title of style icon she's got to Aftonbladet pool for a best looking artist with Robyn, Sibel, Linda Sundblad and Veronica Maggio and currently confidently leads it.
"Mikrofonkåt" has become incredible hit spending 9 weeks in a row at #1 of Swedish chart and last week Petra was invited to perform it in English version at big Norwegian-Swedish show Skavlan. It was actually first performance of "Me And My Microphone" in this version on TV and could it be anything but stunning? Big band behind, Petra in gorgeous diva poses vocally better than ever and clapping audience - nothing else but replay is necessary.

This Saturday we've got new episode of "Så mycket bättre" and this time artists made covers for Di Leva's biggest hits. Thomas Di Leva is one of the most special artists of Sweden, popular but performing not so accessible music for most of non-Swedish listeners, so to be honestly there weren't songs I've fallen for but still we had amazing Petra Marklund that automatically made whole thing interesting for me. This time Petra as expected showed her new side with indie-smelling track "Vem ska jag tro på" with emotional rise in the end, you should check this performance. And as I can't recommend you any other covers I'm attaching another old Petra's cover for Dilba's classic hit "I'm Sorry" that she performed in the beginning of her career.

TV4 starts new show "Så mycket bättre" (So much better) that I told you about before. During 8 series you'll be able to see Lasse Berghagen, Lill-Babs, Petter, Thomas Di Leva, Petra "September" Marklund, Christer Sandelin and Plura Jonsson who had to spend a week living in one house and singing covers for each other hits. First day that was shown today was devoted to Lasse Berghagen's songs. Biggest highlight of the show was to finally see and listen Petra Marklund with beautiful cover of Lasse's classic hit "Teddybjörnen Fredriksson". Another nice covers were done by Lill-Babs, Thomas Di Leva and Christer Sandelin (from Style), it's a bit hard to judge such a retro-stuff but still it looks like a nice idea to collect such a different but popular artists and make them to arrange tribute-nights for each other (sure I can't wait for September's night!). Watch whole show here.