Jan Johansen

Active for several decades and internationally popular, Jan Johansen is a Swedish singer whose debut single, &quot;Se På Mej,&quot; was a chart-topping smash hit that took third place at the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest. Born on January 9, 1966, in Stockholm, Sweden, he is the son of Swedish-Norwegian jazz drummer <a href="spotify:artist:1oSYD8JMdA6DJXJpUqkEwE" data-name="Egil Johansson">Egil Johansson</a>. He burst onto the Swedish music scene in 1995 with the smash hit single &quot;Se På Mej,&quot; which topped the charts for nine weeks and spent 20 weeks in the Top Ten. The song was also a Top Ten hit in neighboring Norway. Johansen was chosen to represent Sweden at the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest with &quot;Se På Mej,&quot; and finished in third place. Meanwhile, he made his full-length album debut with Johansen (1995), which spent ten weeks in the Top Ten and peaked at number two. Though Johansen scored a couple follow-up hits with the singles &quot;Mitt Hjärta I Din Hand&quot; and &quot;Kommer Tid, Kommer Vår,&quot; the latter a duet with Jill Johnson, his second album, Johansen 2 (1996), couldn&#39;t rival the success of its predecessor, failing to break the Top 20 in either Sweden or Norway (where &quot;Kommer Tid, Kommer Vår&quot; was a big hit). In a turn of bad fortune, he didn&#39;t hit the charts again until after the turn of the century. His comeback came in 2001 when he took fourth place at that year&#39;s Melodifestivalen contest with the hit single &quot;Ingemansland.&quot; The accompanying full-length album, Fram Till Nu (2001), was also a hit. Johansen returned to the Melodifestivalen two more times, taking seventh place in 2002 with the Top 20 hit &quot;Sista Andetaget,&quot; and second place in 2003 with the Top Ten hit &quot;Let Your Spirit Fly,&quot; a duet with <a href="spotify:artist:4tUajUzujJgjYQ6mMbsMRf" data-name="Pernilla Wahlgren">Pernilla Wahlgren</a>. The songs were included on the respective albums Hela Vägen Fram (2002) and X My Heart (2003). He remained active in subsequent years, scoring sporadic hits now and then in both Sweden and Norway. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi