Famous People with Name Lovisa

Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir            Origin/Culture/Country: Norse

Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir: an Icelandic artist and singer.Lovísa was born in 1982 in London to a Sri Lankan father and an Icelandic mother. She moved to Iceland at a young age where she has lived since. As a child she began taking piano lessons but started playing electric bass and guitar in her teens, and has since then played with numerous local bands. She joined the band Benny Crespo's Gang playing keyboards/synthesizers and guitar. It was then when she first started to use her voice.

Lovisa Sofia Augusti            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Lovisa Sofia Augusti: was a Swedish opera singer and actor. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.The daughter of Israel Salomon, a traveling Jewish musician from Germany, Lovisa had already made a name for herself in her childhood as a singer in Gothenburg. She converted to Christianity there in 1767, when she received the name Lovisa Sofia Salmoni at her baptismal. The conversion was made together with her brother, who was a violinist, to avoid the regulations of non-Christian entertainers.