Alice Babs ( born Hildur Alice Nilson ; 26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014 ) was a Swedish singer and actress . She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore , Elizabethan songs and opera . While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer , Babs also competed as Sweden 's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 . In 1972 she was named Sweden ’s Royal Court Singer , the first non-opera singer as such
Eurovision Song Contest 1958
Eurovision Song Contest 1958
Alice Babs