The first solo album Meja, was released in 1996, with songs co-written by Billy Steinberg.
Meja teamed in 1995 with Swedish manager Lasse Karlsson, manager of Ace of Base, and writer/producer Douglas Carr to provide the vocals for the demo The Juvenile titled The Goldeneye. Meja recorded one more album with Legacy of Sound in 1994, Tour de Force. "Happy" was released in over 20 countries. The song reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club play, and it peaked at number 68 on the Top 100 during a 12-week stay on the chart. She co-wrote with Anders Bagge the first single, "Happy", from the album Holy Groove. In 1993, Meja worked with the dance project Legacy of Sound. She graduated from the vocal program in late 1992 then returned to Sweden. In 1992 Meja moved to Los Angeles to continue her studies at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. She sang in different bands there before getting out on tour as a backup singer for the Swedish group Rob n Raz DLC in 1991. She was introduced to American jazz trumpet player/singer Stephen Frankevich and started to take vocal lessons with singer Deborah Carter. In 1986, at the age of 16, she moved to Mallorca, Spain, to study. She was brought up in a musical family, her grandfather, Per Lundkvist, was a composer of both classical and contemporary music and her mother, a recording artist as a child before choosing a path as a painter. She had her stage debut at "Ystads City theatre" at the age of 7. Meja was born Anna Pernilla Torndahl in Nynäshamn, Stockholm County.
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