The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Nordic music in 1983.
Events 14 March – Swedish band Europe release their first album, Europe, on Hot Records. 30 May – Former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog releases her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me. unknown date 25-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen replaces Michael Tilson Thomas as conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra when the latter is taken ill just before a performance. Salonen immediately emerges from obscurity. In the same year he co-founds the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland. Per Nørgård's opera-ballet Siddhartha, with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premièred at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet.
New works Magnus Lindberg Ablauf Zona Per Nørgård – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus) (opera)
Hit singles ABBA – "Thank You for the Music" (re-release; #2 South Africa; #7 Argentina) Kikki Danielsson – "Varför är kärleken röd?" Electric Banana Band – "Bananknotakt av tredje graden" (#7 Sweden) Europe – "Seven Doors Hotel" (#8 Sweden) Carola Häggkvist – "Främling" (#1 Denmark, Norway; #5 Sweden; #6 Finland) Tomas Ledin – "What Are You Doing Tonight?"(#8 Sweden) Jahn Teigen – "Do re mi" (#2 Norway) Yö – "Likaiset legendat I"
Eurovision Song Contest Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
Film and television music Anders Berglund – Två killar och en tjej, featuring Björn Haugan Geir Bøhren & Bent Åserud – Hockeyfeber Gunner Møller Pedersen – Skønheden og udyret
Births 27 January – John Lundvik, British-born Swedish singer-songwriter 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singer
Deaths 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922) 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer (born 1896) 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903) 29 October – Sten Broman, Swedish composer (born 1902)
See also 1983 in Denmark
1983 in Iceland 1983 in Norwegian music 1983 in Sweden
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