Per Gessle

Per Gessle is one of Scandinavia’s most successful artists and songwriters of all time. Starting his career in 1978 as the driving creative force in Swedish 80´s pop phenomenon <a href="spotify:artist:0FINyNBXqnTlRC4dvpSeSb" data-name="Gyllene Tider">Gyllene Tider</a>, he eventually found global recognition as a songwriter and artist through his collaboration with singer <a href="spotify:artist:4YkPXMsmFf3K2XFHPddqFU" data-name="Marie Fredriksson">Marie Fredriksson</a> in <a href="spotify:artist:2SHhfs4BiDxGQ3oxqf0UHY" data-name="Roxette">Roxette</a>. The duo’s second album &#34;<a href="spotify:album:4rQV5S9FhajZdyzFfcyYw9" data-name="Look Sharp! (Extended Version)">Look Sharp! (Extended Version)</a>” was released in October 1988, and included the American Number Ones “ <a href="spotify:track:2oWMI54r0qT4N8Xb4C76vq" data-name="The Look">The Look</a>” and &#34; <a href="spotify:track:5JvsxPAHsGxwNq4xto2HtM" data-name="Listen To Your Heart">Listen To Your Heart</a>&#34; as well as international hits &#34; <a href="spotify:track:3y8pywLbRGC1x8oCDeTMyL" data-name="Dressed For Success">Dressed For Success</a>&#34; and &#34; <a href="spotify:track:61uXORSNIY7p03t5V7DH7z" data-name="Dangerous">Dangerous</a>&#34;. “Look Sharp!” selling more than 10 million copies paved the way for a string of hits: &#34;<a href="spotify:album:3dWX1xFUaalRlaaVpe4EPF" data-name="It Must Have Been Love">It Must Have Been Love</a>”—the main love theme for Hollywood block buster-film “Pretty Woman”—and &#34; <a href="spotify:track:1ILbD4eWKWvg8ub5qJyBTP" data-name="Joyride">Joyride</a>&#34; also reached the #1 position in the USA, the latter helping the album sell 11&#43; million copies.


Per Gessle is the only Swedish artist/songwriter who has achieved four US #1 songs on the Billboard chart. With more than 90 millions records sold worldwide, <a href="spotify:artist:2SHhfs4BiDxGQ3oxqf0UHY" data-name="Roxette">Roxette</a> is Sweden’s biggest music export next to <a href="spotify:artist:0LcJLqbBmaGUft1e9Mm8HV" data-name="ABBA">ABBA</a>. He has released eleven acclaimed best-selling solo-albums, received numerous awards, while since the mid 90’s keeping <a href="spotify:artist:0FINyNBXqnTlRC4dvpSeSb" data-name="Gyllene Tider">Gyllene Tider</a> active with unprecedented success. A GT compilation became Sweden&#39;s best selling album two years in a row (1995-96) ten years after the group’s demise, and their record-breaking reunion tour ’96 that wasn’t eclipsed until the group reunited for a 2004 tour that still holds the Scandinavian record.