Per Gessle

Known For
Acting

Popular
13.781

Birthday
1959-01-12

Place of Birth
Halmstad, Hallands län, Sweden

Also Known As

  • Per Håkan Gessle
  • Gyllene Tider
  • Roxette

Per Gessle

Biography

Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson (Gessle being the chief songwriter in both bands). With Fredriksson's illness in 2002, he went back to recording solo albums, reformed Gyllene Tider in 2004 and became a successful artist in his native Sweden, selling multi-platinum albums.