Sara Isaksson is a Swedish vocalist who made her solo album debut in 1995 but was most successful in later years in collaboration with others, in particular
Rebecka Törnqvist and
Anders Widmark. Born on February 19, 1971, she made her solo album debut in 1995 with Red Eden, an English-language country-rock album released on MCA. The album was a moderate hit, reaching number 24 on the Swedish albums chart and spawning the single "May." Follow-up album Walking Through and By (1996) and its accompanying single, "Shifting Dream," were less successful, however, and
Isaksson's solo tenure on MCA came to a close. In subsequent years she found work as a backup vocalist on a variety of projects. More notably, she joined the band Gloria, in which she sang alongside jazz-pop vocalist
Törnqvist. The band released two albums, Gloria (1999) and
People Like You and Me (2003), the first of which reached number 13 on the Swedish albums chart, the latter number 26. In 2006
Isaksson and
Törnqvist teamed up as a vocal duo for the release of
Fire in the Hole, an album of
Steely Dan covers that was fairly popular, reaching the Top 30. Meanwhile,
Isaksson also collaborated with pianist
Widmark on the albums Anders Widmark Featuring Sara Isaksson (2002) and Pool of Happiness (2008), the latter of which was a Top Ten hit. ~ Jason Birchmeier