Sharon came to Sweden when she was 13, after growing up in London and Barbados, and has become an extremely versatile artist, in various genres including soul, jazz, television and musicals.
Sharon became known among the general TV audience as the pretty girl in Varuhuset, but it is as a singer she feels most at home and she has sung with most of Sweden’s most acclaimed jazz musicians and big bands, including Nisse Landgren.
She has also had great success in the theater and musicals, including winning the Guldmask for her role as Anita in West Side Story in 1989. She has participated in several major musicals over the years such as Guys & Dolls, Hair, A Corus Line, Nine and Jekyll & Hyde on different stages in Sweden.
Sharon has sung behind Swedish pop and jazz elite, released several CDs, toured with, among others Totta Naslund, Nils Landgren, Svante Turesson, Rhapsody in Rock, appeared in Så ska det låta 5 times and dubbed several Disney and other signature films.
In 2007 she released the jazz album Another Angle. This summer she is starring in play on Sweden’s West Coat.
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