Background
Already as a 5-year-old, Margareta performed her first public performance at a Red Cross Christmas party, and soon thereafter she went with her mother, Inga-Lill Svensson, a registered nurse, to sing for the sick and elderly at the local hospital.
Career
As a singer-pianist, Margareta Svensson has performed as an opening act in five casino-resorts in Las Vegas, and held resident engagements at among other places The Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge, traveled the world both as a headliner as well as a piano-singer, and performed for many superstars, including Sir Paul McCartney, Whoopie Goldberg, Stevie Wonder, Chevy Chase, Michael Bolton and Kiss and world leaders like Margaret Thatcher, to name a few. Her extensive career as a singer-pianist and performer, led to a lead on the fifth season of Svenska Hollywoodfruar broadcast on TV3. Season 5 has had the highest ratings of the seasons so far, and the show is claimed to have saved the network.
Svenska Hollywoodfruar features Margareta Svensson both as a singer, pianist, performer, songwriter and recording artist, as well as a vocal coach.
As instructors, in addition to giving private lessons, Margareta and Seth Riggs conduct vocal workshops and master classes together around the world. Only a year later, the favor was returned to Margareta by Angelina Jolie.
Margareta read about Angelina Jolie testing positive for BRCA1, and her mother having died from ovarian cancer. Margareta"s own mother, Inga-Lill Svensson, had also died from ovarian cancer, and Margareta asked to be tested for BRCA. She tested positive for BRCA1 and while waiting for preventive surgery, an Medical Research Institute revealed early stage breast cancer.
Well and healthy, Margareta shared her story in 2015 in hopes to pass on the gift of helping to yet others at risk.