ARTIST · POP / ROCK

Roxette

Call-and-response electricity—rock guitar polish carrying diary frankness.

Pop rock
Soft rock

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Look Sharp! packaged earworm science that stormed US charts alongside UK peers.

It Must Have Been Love soundtrack ubiquity proved ballad craft transcends film tie-in jokes.

Tour returns after hiatus honoured Marie Fredriksson’s enduring vocal signature.

Lossless streams preserve DX-era sheen, gated drums, and breathy double vocals.

Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson formed Roxette in Halmstad. Look Sharp! (1988) included The Look, Dressed for Success, and Listen to Your Heart, and Joyride (1991) brought It Must Have Been Love, first recorded for the film Pretty Woman.

Fredriksson died in December 2019 after a long illness. Gessle has continued to record under his own name.

Interesting facts about Roxette

01 Swedish pop duo of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle formed in Halmstad in 1986.
02 Look Sharp! (1988) included The Listen to Your Heart and Dressed for Success.
03 The Look reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1989.
04 It Must Have Been Love was used in the film Pretty Woman.
05 Marie Fredriksson died in 2019.
06 Per Gessle wrote most of Roxette’s songs.