![]() ![]() She’d released a Greatest Hits collection, finished up a world tour and began to realise the things she was missing by travelling the world being a pop star.īack in 2010 I saw Agnes perform live in Leeds at Party In The Park, promoting third album Dance Love Pop. Her hiatus, she tells me, just seemed to fit into place. A decade is a long time to do anything, no matter how much you may love everything about what you do. The only name I can catch is Ava Max.įollowing the whirlwind of commitments that follow her Idol win, ten years later, at age 26 Agnes decided she needed a break. On my way out I notice - too late - that a white upright piano is covered in the scrawlings of pop stars past and present. This one is home to Agnes and her husband, acclaimed Swedish songwriter Vincent Pontare. I meet Agnes in a gorgeous studio on the Stockholm waterfront - one of many in the same building housing all manner of songwriters, producers and musicians. She now reveals this happened all while she was suffering from glandular fever – a condition we both struggle to remember the English name of – she explained she kept getting sicker adding that in her final performance, she even thought – “my voice sounded like a smurf.” After all, her voice was the instrument that saw 57% of voters choose her as the season champion. Back then she was just a singer – of course “just a singer” is an understatement – but now her repertoire of talents has increased. ![]()
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