Carolina Norén

Carolina Norén
Norén in 2013
Born	Krång Anna Carolina Norén 29 January 1965 Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Radio presenter
Known for	Svensktoppen

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.