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Elliphant is covered in cockroaches. With each flash of a photographer’s camera, lighting up the dark and cavernous space of Stockholm’s Värmeverket, their shiny oval bodies are revealed across her shoulders and torso, their spindly legs and antenna climbing her arms. They’re fake, but the lauded 37-year-old Swedish musician – whose real name is Ellinor Olovsdotter, and who introduces herself as Ellie – was well and truly prepared to be covered in the real deal for the photoshoot. “I’m not scared of cockroaches,” Elliphant says later, during a cigarette break between looks. “When I was a kid living in Thailand, I was obsessed with them. I do like them a lot.”

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This is the gritty, unflinching way of Elliphant that has garnerned her legions of fans over the course of a career packed with headline tours, award wins and chart-topping collaborations. Fans that are now waiting with keen anticipation for Troll, the upcoming album produced by Johan Wedel and mixed by R Ellinor olovsdotter biography of rory and ryan!