Monica Dominique

Monica Dominique (née Danielsson; born 20 July 1940) is a Swedish pianist, composer, and actress. As a musician, she is primarily a jazz pianist, and she has composed with her husband, who is also a pianist. The two often perform piano four hands together in concert. Dominique acted from 1969 until the 1990s. Her brother was the jazz musician Palle Danielsson. She was inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame in 2016.

Life As a child Dominique was able to play melodies from the radio on the piano, and played Donauwellen by the Romanian composer Ion Ivanovici as a four-year-old. She was educated at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and has been active as a versatile but mainly jazz musician since the 1960s. In the early 1970s, she co-founded and played in the group Solar Plexus, where she was known for playing for the hammond organ. She started her career as an actress in 1969, playing the character Lotten in the TV movie Spader, Madame. She continued her acting career well into the late 1990s.

She and her husband, pianist and composer Carl-Axel Dominique, composed the song "You're Summer" for the Swedish group Nova to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg in 1973, which she also conducted herself.

Her brother was the jazz musician Palle Danielsson.

Discography

Albums 1988: Inside the Rainbow 1996: En flygel – fyra händer with Carl-Axel Dominique 1997: So Nice with Carol Rogers 2000: Mitt i mej 2003: Bird Woman (as Monica Dominique Quintet) 2004: Säg vad ni vill... men först kommer käket with Monica Nielsen 2006: Jösses flickor – Återkomsten 2009: Monica & Monica tolkar Beppe, Olle, Allan with Monica Nielsen 2011: Fingers Unlimited with Carl-Axel Dominique 2012: Togetherness with Palle Danielsson

Filmography 1979: Repmånad 1979: Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet 1980: Räkan från Maxim (TV) 1981: Höjdhoppar'n 1982: Gräsänklingar 1990: Macken – Roy's & Roger's Bilservice 1996: Monopol

Soundtracks 1970: Förpassad 1970: Jänken 1983: Med Lill-Klas i kappsäcken (TV) 1983: Kärleken 1991: Sanna kvinnor (TV) 1996: Alla dagar, alla nätter (TV)