Jessica Folcker个人资料：
一首和顺子合唱的“Goodbye"不仅让全台湾歌迷见识了瑞典新流行天后洁西卡的声势，也深深的让全球的歌迷为她疯狂！身上流着塞内加尔及瑞典两种不同的血液，洋溢着一股异样风味的闪耀光彩，来自北欧瑞典的洁西卡曾经以她那出众健康的形象担任过知名服装品牌的模特儿，而后被曾为新好男孩制作专辑的传奇制作人DENNIZ POP发掘。洁西卡将继瑞典国宝ABBA,ACE Of Base之后，带给世人瑞典流行音乐的新世代风貌。 虽然洁西卡有个蛮酷的外表，但是在言谈中不难发现她那温柔乐观的个性：（我是个温柔可爱而且充满希望的人）洁西卡这样形容自己。当她谈到爱情还是难掩羞涩的情绪，只是轻轻的表示，我还在等待那生命中的男人。对对于像铁达尼那样的爱情故事，洁西卡表示太悲壮而让她无法接受，她还是期待世界上所以爱情都有一个完美的结局。一身健康气息的她却有个让人意想不到的嗜好——品尝美食！还好她也热爱游泳以保持健美身材，此外她也喜欢旅游！曾经跟随ACE Of Base及Dr.Alban作巡回演唱到过意大利，德国以及英国等等，洁西卡喜欢旅游，因为她认为旅游可以结识更多不同生活背景甚至种族的朋友，至于对于亚洲的看法，洁西卡表示她觉得亚洲人都很亲切和善，尤其是中国人。 洁西卡的声音有着非常强烈的情绪渲染力，会令人感觉到她不但有着像Toni Braxton那样浑厚具有磁性的音色，而且拥有类似Whitney Houston高亢挑动的韵味，是一位极具天赋的歌手。对洁西卡影声至深的音乐从英国的流行乐到美国灵魂乐都有，加上自幼来自音乐家父亲的调教以及音乐学校的训练，培育出洁西卡雄厚无比的歌唱实力。 Jessica Folckers debut album is a collection of slick, radio-ready Swedish dance-pop, the likes of which could be heard from any number of pop singers in the late 90s. Indeed, songs like "I Do" and the Diane Warren-penned ballad "If I Ever See Heaven Again" could easily have appeared on one of the first two Britney Spears albums. None of this is a bad thing, and if the music here is fairly indistinct, then its raised above mediocrity by Folckers mature, throaty vocals, which lend the international hit "Tell Me What You Like" a knowing sexuality that a lesser singer such as Spears would have struggled to convey. The songwriting, primarily by Max Martin and Denniz Pop, who worked with the likes of the Backstreet Boys, Spears, and Robyn around the same time, generally reflects Folckers vocal maturity. Highlights include the ballad "How Will I Know Who You Are" and the funky, musically sparse closer, "Private Eye." Some of the album tracks are a little samey, but theres no outright filler. A strong album from one of the more interesting pop vocalists of the period.
Pop singer and model Jessica Folcker was one of Swedens most successful international recording artists in the late 90s. Her early material was produced by Cheiron Studios, also responsible for huge hits from the likes of Robyn, Britney Spears, and the Backstreet Boys. Later material included a return to her roots with a Swedish-language album followed by a move into harder electro-pop sounds.Born Jessica Elisabeth Angelique Folcker in Taby, Stockholm, in 1975 to a Swedish mother and Senegalese father, Folcker first entered the recording industry as a backing vocalist for the likes of Ace of Base and Dr. Alban. Her exotic looks also saw her selected to represent Stockholm in the 1994 Miss Sweden competition. In 1998 she released her debut album, Jessica, largely written and produced by Max Martin and her then-boyfriend, Denniz Pop. The album was a huge success, with the singles "Tell Me What You Like" and "How Will I Know (Who You Are)" both entering the Top Ten in Sweden. The album was also a success in Europe and particularly in Asia, where she conducted a six-week promotional tour that encompassed Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, resulting in gold and platinum awards in several countries. At the time she was credited on her records simply as "Jessica."In 2000 Folcker released her second album, which was entitled Dino in tribute to Denniz Pop, who had succumbed to cancer in August 1998 just as her career was taking off. For the international release of this album her surname was altered to "Folker" to avoid radio DJs mispronouncing it. Despite scoring a Top Ten U.S. club hit with "To Be Able to Love," sales of this record were disappointing and Folcker was dropped by Sony BMG International. However, her career took an upward swing in 2002 when she was featured on "Crack It (Something Going On)" by Swedish dance group Bomfunk MCs. The song was a massive international hit, going Top Five throughout Europe.As a solo artist Folcker was quiet until 2005, when she returned with a new record label and third album På Svenska, which was entirely recorded in Swedish. To promote the record she took part in Swedens most popular TV contest, Melodifestivalen, in which a mix of established and unknown singers compete to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest. The song "Om Natten" was positioned for success but considerably underperformed, failing to even qualify for the grand final. The album was another commercial disappointment. In 2006 she competed once again in Melodifestivalen, this time in English with "When Loves Coming Back Again." Once again she failed to qualify for the finals, and no album was forthcoming. In 2007 she returned on an independent label with her fourth album, Skin Close, which heralded a more mature electro-pop sound.
