Early in her career, Clara Mae worked with producers
David Guetta and
Tiësto. The following year, she competed on another singing competition program,
Idol 2009. She performed
Duffy's "
Warwick Avenue" for her audition and
Oh Laura's "
Release Me" during the semi-final round, but failed to advance to the finals. Also in 2009, Clara Mae was recruited by
Ulf Ekberg and
Jonas Berggren to join Ace of Base. She and fellow new member Julia Williamson replaced former members
Jenny and
Linn Berggren and began recording a new album with the band in September 2009. The band released
The Golden Ratio in September 2010, and Mae officially left Ace of Base in 2012. In 2014, she officially adopted "Clara Mae" as her stage name and released her first song as a solo artist, "Changing Faces." She had been going by her birth name, Clara Hagman, prior to that. In 2015, she released a new single, "Avalon". In 2016, she was featured on the Steve Void & No Mondays song "Chemistry", and also released another solo single, "Strip". That same year, she co-wrote and was featured on the Kream song "Taped Up Heart", which would go on to peak at number 21 on the
Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 70 on the
Swedish chart. She also performed at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2016 as a backing vocalist for
Gabriela Gunčíková, who represented the
Czech Republic that year with "
I Stand". Mae signed to Big Beat Records (an imprint of Atlantic Records) in 2017. She released her first major label single, "I'm Not Her", in November of that year. Her second single on Big Beat, "I Forgot", was released in March 2018. ==Discography==