Ola Nils Håkan Svensson (born 23 February 1986) is a Swedish artist and songwriter, known professionally by the mononym Ola until 2014, and as Brother Leo from 2018 to present. Born in Lund, Skåne, his career began in 2005, when he finished eighth on season two of Swedish Idol. Since then, Ola has released four studio albums. Eleven of his singles have reached the top five on the Swedish singles chart, with six achieving number one, and nine attaining gold and platinum certifications. After being signed to Universal Music for many years, Ola founded his own record label Oliniho Records for the Swedish market, keeping distribution arrangements with Sony Music in Europe and internationally. Following a four-year break, he returned in 2018, recording under the stage name Brother Leo for Columbia Records. Early life Ola was born to Swedish parents, and has two adopted brothers from El Salvador, Jonas and Daniel his elders ( Daniel have two daughters Felicia and Cornelia. Jonas has also two daughters Naomi and Penelopi). His second single "Brothers", deals in part with his relationship with his brothers with the official music video carrying footage of their childhood. From the age of 5, Ola has played piano, and a strong musical influence came from his grandfather who died when Ola was 8. After he died, Ola decided to sing in a boys choir in memory of his grandfather. By age five Ola began playing the piano at Lund's Municipal School of Music, and at nine he joined a boys' choir in his home town Lund. Ola Svensson was an avid football (soccer) fan devoting most of his life to the sport. Ola played for a long time for Trelleborgs FF team before moving to the first division team Vasalund IF. As an 11-year-old Svensson had a starring role in the set of the opera The Magic Flute at the Malmö City Theatre, directed by Philip Zandén. Idol Encouraged by his friends, Svensson tried out to the Swedish Idol auditions. In 2005, Svensson auditioned for season 2 of the Swedish edition of Idol. In the initial audition in Malmö, he sang "This I Promise You" from 'N Sync and later "Mandy" from Barry Manilow / Westlife and finally "Against All Odds" from Phil Collins as a duet. Just 19 and coming from Lund, he performed his qualifying audition "Show Me Heaven", a song from Maria McKee. The