Carolina Norén

Krång Anna Carolina Norén (born 29 January 1965) is a Swedish radio presenter for Sveriges Radio and television presenter.^[1] Norén has been the host of the music chart show Svensktoppen since 2007 and also commentates on Sveriges Radio's broadcasts of Melodifestivalen and the annual Eurovision Song Contest.^[2] She took the first steps to a radio career when she participated as an interviewer at the legendary Radio SBC in the Stockholm community radio in 1980-82. She also made some appearances at Stockholm University's student radio station, which eventually led her to being employed by Radio Stockholm through Sveriges Radio between 1989 and 1997.^[3]

In 1998 she moved to P4 Riks in an attempt to make the radio channel more youth-oriented. She presented, amongst other shows, the entertainment show Curry-Curry which was broadcast on Friday nights.^[4][5]

Since 1999 she has been Sveriges Radio's commentator and host for Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contests broadcasts.^[6] Between 2004 and 2006 Norén hosted the nostaglia program 64-93 at Sveriges Radio P4, and has also done portrait shows with guests such as Erland Josephson, Lena Nyman and Jan Guillou.^[7] In 2006 she was also host and producer for the series Let the Music Play, that played mostly disco and soul songs.^[8]

In August 2007 she took over the hosting of the Svensktoppen from Annika Jankell.^[9] On 2 November 2014 Norén revealed that she had been the driving force to have the rules changed for the songs appearing at Svensktoppen, having the voting public deciding via a vote if a song should be able to stay on the chart longer than a year.^[10]

Norén currently hosts Knattetimmen on Sveriges Radio P4.^[11] In 1992, she hosted the first season of the series Här är ditt kylskåp ("Here is your refrigerator"), which was broadcast on SVT.^[12]

Norén lives in Herräng outside of Norrtälje.^[13]

References

1. ↑ "Carolina Norén Ratsit" (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
2. ↑ "Danmark kommer bli livsfarliga!" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
3. ↑ "Carolina på hemmaplan" (in Swedish). dt.se. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
4. ↑ "Carolina Norén och Claes-Johan Larsson leder finalen i Svensktoppen nästa" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
5. ↑ "P4-profil tar över Svensktoppen". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
6. ↑ "Svensktoppen med Carolina Norén" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
7. ↑ TTSpektra. "Norén gör ny nostalgisk radioresa". SvD.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
8. ↑ "Let The Music Play. En timme Barry White med Carolina Norén." (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
9. ↑ "Premiär i Svensktoppen" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
10. ↑ "Nu vill Björn att du fäller en Uggla" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 November 2014. 
11. ↑ "Lyssna på Knattetimmen med Carolina Norén" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
12. ↑ "Carola öppnar sitt kylskåp" (in Swedish). gd.se. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 
13. ↑ "Krång Anna Carolina Norén" (in Swedish). MerInfo.se. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.