Anna Sahlin, better known as Sahlene, is a singer from Sweden. She was born in the Swedish town of Soderhamn in 1976. When she was eleven, her career already began. She played a role in the tv-series "The children of Bullerbyn". Seven years later she moved to Stockholm to start a musical career. She started to sing in a band called Rhythm Avenue.
In 1998 she left Rhythm Avenue to appear as a backing singer for Swedish stars just like Eric Gadd, Carola, Robyn and Charlotte Nilsson. Her first solo single in 2000 was called The little Voice, just as the title track was.
Three videos were made for the album; Fifth Element , The Little Voice , landing in the top 5 of MTV Nordic’s most played list, and Fishies, filmed on location in Sardinia, Italy. Unfortunately, The Little Voice album was never released due to EMG’s buyout of Roadrunner Arcade Music and eventual fall into bankruptcy.
But this didn't mean the end of Sahlene's carreer. In Estonia they had a problem since one of their most famous singers, Ines, decided that she didn't want to sing the song Runaway in the national preselections for the Eurovision Song Contest. Sahlene said "yes" to the song and won the national final. She could participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn and for hostcountry Estonia she became 3rd. The song was very succesfull in the charts, not only in Estonia and Sweden but also in the other Scandinavian countries, as well as the Baltic States and even in Switzerland and France.
Finally most of the tracks from the Little Voice album are released on a new album in april 2003. The album of course also includes Runaway.