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Hanna Jäger (born 1998 in Vaxholm, Sweden), known simply as Yaeger is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. The woman also known as Hanna Jäger has always known she wanted to pursue a career in music. Where many artists question themselves and the business along the way, it was a talent show in her eighth-grade that presented the realisation it might also be her calling. "I was standing on the stage for the first time and just realised the kick I got from that," Hanna tells me. "I do a lot of sports and get the same kicks from it. So, when I got on stage I was like, 'There's nothing like this.' And I knew." After such a realisation became hard to escape, Hanna knew the next step she was going to have to naturally take - to leave the school she was at to audition for one more suited to her talent, desire, and hopes and dreams: music college. As she tells it, the school she originally went to was in Vaxholm; the small area of Stockholm in which she grew up. "I just wanted out," Hanna says, matter-of-factly. "I wanted to get into the city and leave stuff behind." Although there were music schools close by, she also knew that if she really wanted to pursue music as a career, they weren't the ones in which she could do it: "It was Rytmus or Sodra Latin." For Hanna, the clear choice was Rytmus: “I was like, ‘I’m gonna go there. I’m gonna get in.’ If we're talking likenesses to the UK, Rytmus Music School is along the lines of the BRIT school. If