Benjamin Ingrosso

Benjamin Ingrosso is the son of dancer/composer Emilio Ingrosso and singer Pernilla Wahlgren.

 

Benjamin Ingrosso has participated in a number of musicals and the play Nils Karlsson Pyssling. In 2006 he won Lilla Melodifestivalen and represented Sweden in the MGP Nordic. In 2007, he released the single “Jag är en astronaut”, which his uncle Linus Wahlgren sang in 1985. Ingrosso’s version reached the 2nd place in the Swedish charts. In 2007 he participated in Allsång at Skansen together with his mother. In the summer of 2007 he also participated in the Diggiloo tour. In 2008 and 2009 Benjamin Ingrosso played in the musical Hujeda mej vá många sånger.  In 2009 he played the role of Rasmus in Rasmus and the vagabond with Markoolio. In 2011 Ingrosso played a role in the play Karlsson på taket flyger igen. In October 2015 he released his first single “Fall in Love”.

 

Benjamin competed in Melodifestivalen 2017 with the song “Good Lovin ‘. He finished in fifth place. He took part again a year later and won with the song “Dance You Off”. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, where he reached a 7th place.

 

The contest was followed by a first album called “Identification”. He worked together with Felix Sandman on two different singles: “Tror du att han bryr sig” and “Happy thoughts”. His song “Långsamt farväl” reached the first place in the Swedish charts.

 

On January 15, 2021, he released his second album, “En gång i tiden”. The album is entirely in Swedish and is the first album he has released in Swedish. [10] The second part of the album, “En gång i tiden (del 2)”, was released on April 16, 2021. On the 71th of June 2022, a new English album was released: “Playlist”.