The Swedish pop singer known as Dotter was born Johanna Janson in Arvika in 1987. During her teenage years she lived in Stockholm and studied music at the city's Kulturama Music School. In 2014 at the age of 27 she released her debut single 'My Flower' and despite releasing a series of singles during the next few years, chart success eluded her.
In 2017 she entered Sweden's famous Melodifestivalen, the annual Swedish song contest which is used to select Sweden's forthcoming entry for the Eurovison Song Contest. Janson's entry was a collaboration with the artist Mariette Hanson titled 'A Million Years' which subsequently reached number 26 in the Swedish singles charts and was placed fourth in the final. A year later she returned to Melodifestivalen as a soloist with the track 'Cry' but unfortunately the song was eliminated and only reached number 60 in the charts. After a two-year break from the festival Janson returned in 2020 with the single 'Bulletproof', which was placed in the final and reached number 14 in the charts.
