Known For: Acting
Popularity: 0
Status: Deceased at 90 years old (death on 11/02/2014)
Date of Birth: 26/01/1924
Place of Birth: Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. 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.