Bio Full Biography »

Magnus Carlsson is a Swedish pop singer who embarked on a chart-topping solo career after the turn of the century. He had previously been a member of the popular dansband Barbados and was also a member of the chart-topping Euro-dance group Alcazar for a short period. Born Lars Magnus Carlsson on June 24, 1974, in Borås, Sweden, he studied music at Gothenburg University and joined the Gothenburg-based dansband Barbados in 1992. Barbados made their eponymous album debut in 1994 but didn't break through to mainstream success until 2000 when their song "Se Mig" won second place in that year's Melodifestivalen and their album Rosalita (1999) reached number six on the Swedish albums chart. Barbados subsequently won second place in the 2001 Melodifestivalen with their song "Allt Som Jag Ser" and hit the Top Five with their next two albums, Kom Hem (2000) and Världen Utanför (2002). At the end of 2002 Carlsson left Barbados and joined the Euro-dance group Alcazar, one of whose members was his ...