Sharon Birgitta Dyall (born 28 December 1962[1][2]) is a Swedish singer, actress and voice actress. She became famous in the late 1980s when she acted in the SVT TV series Varuhuset. She has since become known as a singer of soul and jazz music and as a musical performer. She has appeared in many theatre productions including West Side Story (Chinateatern, 1989), A Chorus Line (National Swedish Touring Theatre, 1996), Nine (Malmö Opera, 2002) and Chicago (Stockholm City Theatre, 2014, 2015).
Aside from being active on stage and within the field of dubbing, Dyall also holds a degree in Logonomy, Aesthetic Voice and Speech Pedagogy (University College of Music Education) teaching in Voice and Artistic Performance Development.
Early life
Dyall was born in Sweden but grew up in London and Barbados. Her father was the jazz musician Colin Dyall. She learned how to play the piano and began dancing at the age of six.[3] When the family moved to Sweden in the 1970s, she joined her father on tour as a backup singer.[4] Her brother, Karl Dyall, is a Swedish dancer, singer and actor.[5]
Dyall with her father Colin and brother Karl in 2013
Her big breakthrough in acting came in 1987 with her role as "Tina" in the SVT drama series Varuhuset.[12] She has since appeared in several films and television series, among them Rosenbaum in 1993 and Kommissarie Winter in 2010.[13] She competed in Melodifestivalen 1991 singing "Ge mig ett svar", finishing in fifth place overall.[14] The same year she appeared in the revue Hjalmars hotell at Parkteatern. In 1993, she acted in the revue show Mulliga vitaminer along with Birgitta Andersson and Ulf Brunnberg at Lorensbergsteatern in Göteborg.[3]
Dyall has sung a lot of jazz along with bands such as Peter Asplund trio och Peter Asplund Big Band Show, Claes Crona Trio, Blue House Jazz Orchestra, Stockholms Jazz Orchestra, Mats Holmqvists Stora Stygga, Bohuslän Big Band, Sandviken Big Band and Norrbotten Big Band.[15] In 2007 she released the jazz album Another Angle.[15] She has also been a backup singer for singers such as Mauro Scocco, Lisa Nilsson, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Björn Skifs, Titiyo, Ola Magnell and Nils Landgren.[1]
In her career as an actress and singer, she also works as a dubbing director at Sun Studio (SDI) and Dubberman studio.[16] She has overseen the Swedish dubbing of films such as Ice Age and The Princess and the Frog and has also done a great deal of dubbing work herself, for instance she has often dubbed the voice of Helena Bonham Carter and is the long-standing character voice of Daphne in the Scooby-Doo Movies and Television series.[16] In 2013, she wrote the Swedish translation for the lyrics of songs from the Disney film Frozen.[17][18]
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^"Kommissarie Winter" (in Swedish). tv.nu. Archived from the original on 1 November 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
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^ ab"Another Angle". Stockholm Jazz Festival (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 1 November 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^ abKronbrink, Hans (28 December 2012). "En för evigt ung tusenkonstnär". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 1 November 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^Aðalheiðarson, Agust Ingi (27 July 2016). "Interview with Sharon Dyall". CHARGUIGOU. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^"Utgivning" (in Swedish). Popfakta. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
^"Sharon Dyall". Stockholms Stadsbibliotek. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
^Eriksson, Magnus (29 March 2001). "Totta Näslund – Duetterna". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
