The Swedish King Carl XIV Johan appointed her Court Singer at the age of 19 in 1840 and the same year she became a member of The Royal Academy of Music.ġ844 her extraordinary career outside of Sweden began, starting in Germany and Austria and followed by England and Scotland.ĭuring her extensive concert tour of the USA 1850 – 1852 she was launched as “The Swedish Nightingale”. She was born Octoin Stockholm and died 1887 at the age of 67 in her summer home in Little Malvern, Worchester, England, where she also is buried.Īt the very young age of nine she was accepted as a pupil at The Royal Theatre in Stockholm, and already at the age of ten she appeared in her first part as Angela in a play called The Polish Mine. Jenny Lind was the first megastar the world has known.
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