{{short description|Swedish singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Expand Swedish|topic=bio|Ulla Billquist|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Ulla Billquist | image = UllaBillquist.jpg | image_size = 200px | landscape = yes | alt = | caption = Billquist in 1941 | birth_name = Ulla Ebba Ingegerd Schönström | native_name = | native_name_lang = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1907|8|14}} | birth_place = Eslöv, Sweden | origin = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1946|7|6|1907|8|14}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | genre = Schlager | occupation = Singer | instrument = | years_active = 1925–1946 | label = Pathé<br/>Columbia<br/>Sonora | past_member_of = Nils Perne<br/>Willard Ringstrand | spouse = {{plainlist| *{{Marriage|Fritiof Billquist|1926|1934|reason=divorced}} *{{Marriage|Wolmar Sjögren|1936|1942|reason=died}} *{{marriage|Gunnar Hahn|1943}} }} | website = }} '''Ulla Ebba Ingegerd Billquist''', (née '''Schönström''' 14 August 1907 – 6 July 1946), was a Swedish female schlager singer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/853230-Ulla-Billquist|title=Ulla Billquist|publisher=discogs|accessdate=21 December 2014}}</ref> She was successful during the early 1940s.
==Personal life== Ulla Billquist married three times; firstly from 1926 to 1934 to the actor Fritiof Billquist (1901–1972), then to the director Wolmar Sjögren (1901–1974) from 1936 to 1942, and finally to the composer, accordionist and the pianist Gunnar Hahn (1908–2001) in 1943 until her death.<ref name="db">{{cite book |title=Sveriges dödbok 1901–2009 (DVD-rom) |edition=Version 5.0 |year=2010 |publisher=Sveriges släktforskarförbund |place=Solna |language=swedish |isbn=978-91-87676-59-8}}</ref> At the time of her death, she had been separated from her third husband, Gunnar Hahn since the winter of 1946. They were in the process of divorcing, which was not been finalised when she died.<ref>Åsa Billquist-Roussel, Köp Rosor..., Boken om Ulla Billquist, Sellin & Partner Förlag AB, Vänersborg 1990.</ref>
==Discography== * ''Parfym-visan'', Pathé, December 1929 * ''Ett enda litet finger'', Pathé, December 1929 * ''Fusyjama, Pathé, December'' 1929 * ''Vad kvinnan vill, vill du'', Pathé, December 1929 * ''Anna Aurora'', Columbia, December 1930 * ''Vaggvisa'', Columbia, December 1930 * ''Casanova'', Columbia, December 1930 * ''Min soldat'' (1940) * ''Kring de små husen i gränderna vid hamnen'' (1942) * ''Köp rosor, Monsieur'' (1942) * ''Räkna de lyckliga stunderna blott'' (1944) * ''På återseende'' (1945)
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