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You Carved Your Name

2016 single by Swingfly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ23022894 ↗
Source-derived summary

"You Carved Your Name" is a song by American-Swedish rapper Swingfly featuring vocals by Swedish singer Helena Gutarra. The song was released in Sweden as a digital download on 20 February 2016, and was written by Joakim Åhlund and Andreas Kleerup. It took part in Melodifestivalen 2016, and placed sixth in the third semi-final.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “You Carved Your Name” is 2016 single by Swingfly. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Carved, Your and Name, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-02-20. For this dossier, Carved, Your and Name is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2016 single by Swingfly” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23022894. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “You Carved Your Name” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.