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| caption = Jenny "Velvet" Pettersson singing at Rix FM Festival 2009

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|11|5|df=y}}

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'''Jenny Marielle Pettersson''' (born 5 November 5, 1975, [[Helsingborg]], Sweden), professionally known as '''Velvet''', is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] dance-pop singer. She has released two albums since her 2005 debut in the music industry and her first eight singles have all achieved a top -twenty peak on the [[Sverigetopplistan|Swedish Singles Chart]].

Velvet moved from [[Helsingborg]] to [[Stockholm]] in 1993 to study ballet at Balettakademien. She soon took singing lessons at a dance school where she "got a voice".<ref name="radiointerviewflorida">{{cite web|url=http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/TAMPA-FL/WFLZ-FM/finky_velvet060708.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=TAMPA-FL&NG_FORMAT=chr&SITE_ID=1760&STATION_ID=WFLZ-FM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Brian_Fink&PCAST_CAT=Fink&PCAST_TITLE=Saturday_Night_House_Party|title=Velvet talks about how she got started singing, plus sings some of 'Fix Me' as well as some Meatloaf!|date=June 7, 2008|publisher=[[WFLZ-FM]]|accessdateaccess-date=November 22, 2008}}</ref> She worked at Wallmans cabaret where she discovered that singing was what she really wanted to do. She then toured for eight years as a choir singer and dancer to major artists such as [[Lena Philipsson|Lena PH]], [[Markoolio]], [[Carola Häggkvist|Carola]], [[Sanne Salomonsen]], [[Orup]], [[Meat Loaf]], [[Martin Stenmarck]] and [[Jessica Folcker]].

In 2008 Velvet again took part in Melodifestivalen with the song "Deja Vu". Even though she received great reviews, as well as the song, she was knocked out in one of the semi-final rounds, not even makingmissing the final. This was Velvet's second attempt to represent Sweden in the [[Eurovision Song Contest]]. "Deja Vu" was her most successful song in Sweden, but was her only single to not chart anywhere else but there.

After a strong presence in the UK club music scene for several years, "Fix Me" was officially released on August 11, August 2008. Later that month, Velvet also released her new single "Take My Body Close", which reached No. 8 in Sweden and No. 14 in Poland.

"Chemistry" was released as a single in the US on 11 November 11, 2008 as a digital download, followed by a physical release on November 25 November. It includes the original version of the song and four remixes, but failed to chart. A music video for the song was shot in London in December 2008, and the song will be released in UK sometime in 2009.

Velvet competed in Melodifestivalen 2009 singing "[[The Queen (Velvet song)|The Queen]]" composed by [[Tony Nilsson]] and Henrik Janson. She was in the third semi-final in Leksand on February 21, February 2009 but only reached 6th place. Her official website and her label Bonnier confirmed that her second album ''[[The Queen (Velvet album)|The Queen]]'' would be released on March 18, March 2009. The album includes the singles "Fix Me", "Chemistry", Déjà Vu", "Take My Body Close", "The Queen" and "Come into The Night".

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!|Norway<ref name="ncharts">{{cite web|url=http://norwegiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Velvet|title=Norwegian Music Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|accessdateaccess-date=October 5, 2008}}</ref>

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|align="left"|"Don't Stop" (with [[Therese Grankvist|Therese]])"

[[Category:PeopleMusicians from Helsingborg]]

[[Category:21st-century Swedish women singers]]