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Wille Crafoord
Carl-Henning William "Wille" Crafoord (born 8 February 1966) is a Swedish composer, songwriter, singer and rap artist. He became known in the late 1980s for introducing hip hop music in Sweden to a wider audience through his rap group Just D. He was a member of the group between 1989 and 1995. He has released several solo albums, and in 1997 he was awarded the Karamelodiktstipendiet. Just D was awarded the music award Rockbjörnen in 1995. He has twice participated in Melodifestivalen both as a performer and songwriter. Early life Crafoord is the son of psychiatrist Clarence Crafoord and Margareta Crafoord. His paternal grand mother, Elsa, née Kumlin, was a sister to the maternal grand father of English pop singer Leona Naess, making them second cousins. Career Along with Peder Ernerot and Gustave Lund he formed the hip hop group Just D and played in it between 1989 and 1996. They were awarded several gold records, Swedish Grammys and a Rockbjörnen award for albums such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach one million people in 2024. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam & Eva
''Adam & Eva'' is a 1997 Swedish romantic comedy film written and directed by Hannes Holm and Måns Herngren. Starring Björn Kjellman as Adam and Josefin Nilsson as Eva. The film tells the story about a married couple Adam and Eva and their various dreams of the future. Eva's thoughts about the house and kids is scaring Adam who fall into a life crisis. He is cheating with his brother's nanny, which leads to a divorce between him and Eva. He later realizes that he loves Eva and tries to win her back. A sequel is being planned. Plot A church is burning. Firefighters rescues several people from the fire. But left in the Church is Eva (Josefin Nilsson), a blonde girl dressed as the Saint Lucia. One of the firefighters, Adam ( Björn Kjellman), returns to the church to save her. They unite in a kiss and the ending credits starts rolling. After the credits are done you hear Adam ask, "Is it over now?". Four years later, Adam is sitting at the breakfast table thinking that the relatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Saijonmaa
Arja Enni Helena Saijonmaa (born 1 December 1944 in Mikkeli) is a Finnish singer, political activist and occasional actress. Life and career She studied at the Sibelius Academy and earned a Bachelor of Arts at the Helsinki University. She made her breakthrough as a singer in Sweden. She has made albums with Swedish translations of songs by Mikis Theodorakis, as well as covers of Zarah Leander songs. In 1978 she issued ''Miten voi kyllin kiittää'', an album of Finnish translations of the songs of the Chilean composer and singer Violeta Parra. A Swedish version, ''Jag vill tacka livet'', came out the following year. The title song, "Jag vill tacka livet" ("Gracias a la vida") was one of her greatest hits. Swedish prime minister Olof Palme had been a close friend, and his widow wanted Arja to sing at the funeral in 1986. She sang Enai Megalos O Kaimos in Swedish. In 1987, she participated at Melodifestivalen with the song " Högt över havet", ending up second. The same year, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Ahlin
Katrina "Tina" Ahlin, (born 6 July 1967) is a Swedish composer, pianist and singer. She was born in Tyresö and got her education at Stockholms Musikgymnasium, Adolf Fredrik's School of Music and Kommunala musikinstitutet. She has collaborated with several Swedish singers such as Lisa Nilsson, Thomas Di Leva and Orup. She has played in several revues such as ''Hjalmars spelhåla'', ''Lorry-revyn'' and ''Prins korv under taket''. She has been the team leader pianist in the SVT show Så ska det låta. She has also worked in Gokväll. In 2009, Tina Ahlin presented the show Tinas Trädgård was broadcast on TV4 Plus. She has also presented SVTs broadcasts for Valborg, the National day and Midsummer Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer usually held at a date around the summer solstice. It has pagan pre-Christian roots in Europe. The undivided Christian Church designated June 24 as the feast day of the early Christian martyr ... celebrations. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickard Söderberg
John ''Rickard'' Söderberg (born 10 April 1975) in Snöstorp, Halland, is a Swedish tenor, singer and debater. Early life and education Söderberg started as a pianist and had studied playing at the Music College of Gothenburg University. He started his singing career after he began studying opera at Operacademy at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. Even before he had finished his studies he had made opera debuts on stages in Denmark, Sweden and Germany. After this he has continued his opera career at both smaller and bigger operahouses and today sings in Europe, US and Africa. Career Söderberg is known for his interpretations of baroque music, Mozart and Wagner, in roles such as '' Idomeneo'', '' don Ottavio'', '' Lurcanio'', '' Oronte'' and '' Loge''. Earlier he has also sung major roles such as '' Count Almaviva'', '' Lensky'', '' Rodolfo'' and '' don José''. In 2005 he had the lead role in a modern interpretation of the opera ''Temistocle'' by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengan Janson
Bengt Åke "Bengan" Jansson (born 23 February 1963, in Stockholm) is a Swedish accordionist. He plays Swedish folk music, Swedish ballads, pop, rock, and jazz, and has performed with artists such as Kalle Moraeus, Anne Sofie von Otter, Björn Skifs, Loa Falkman, and Allan Edwall. Moraeus and Janson form the duo Kalle & Bengan. At the age of eight, Janson started to play the accordion, when his brother tired of the instrument and gave his accordion to Bengan. He moved to Järvsö with his family in 1979, and met the jazz pianist Gösta Svensson who became influential for his musical development. In the late 1980s, he was a member of the band ''Östen med Resten''. Janson and Per Gudmundson received the Grammis award for Folk Music of the Year in 2019, for their album ''Hjeltamôs''. He was the recipient of the 2020 Karamelodiktstipendiet in memory of Povel Ramel, which was not awarded until 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Janson lives in Leksand with his wife Eva, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogge Doggelito
Douglas León, known by his stage name Dogge Doggelito (born 24 July 1975) is a Swedish rapper, lecturer, author and artist. He is also among the founders of '' The Latin Kings'' (TLK) -- one of Sweden's most successful rap groups. Doggelito is one of the most acclaimed rap artists in Sweden. Early life Douglas Leon was born in Alby, Norra Botkyrka in Stockholm on 1975, to a Venezuelan father and a Swedish mother. He has jokingly referred to himself as "Half Indian, half Viking". He grew up in the 80's and became familiar to hip hop in an early age and sooner or later it became a big part of his life. Although he initially wanted to be an actor, he was not accepted into any of the schools. He started to rap in 1983. He participated in many rap contests, including winning third place in Rap SM with his group The Latin Kings, and also in his teens he was a member in a break dance group. His brother also had big influence on him towards a career in rap music. The Latin Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skåne
Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, created in 1997. Like the other former provinces of Sweden, Scania still features in colloquial speech and in cultural references, and can therefore not be regarded as an archaic concept. Within Scania there are 33 municipalities that are autonomous within the Skåne Regional Council. Scania's largest city, Malmö, is the third-largest city in Sweden, as well as the fifth-largest in Scandinavia. To the north, Scania borders the former provinces of Halland and Småland, to the northeast Blekinge, to the east and south the Baltic Sea, and to the west Öresund. Since 2000, a road and railway bridge, the Öresund Bridge, bridges the Sound and connects Scania with Denmark. Scania forms part of the transnational Øresund Region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ZTV (Sweden)
ZTV was a Swedish television channel owned by Viasat. Launched in February 1991, as a daily afternoon show on TV3 and TV4, it became a channel of its own on Swedish cable networks in May 1992. The intention was to create a Swedish version of MTV and thus the focus was primarily on music. Since May 2006, most of its programming composed of music videos. ZTV's last day was August 1, 2010 for all customers except for Boxer and Com Hem, who continued to distribute the channel indefinitely in a limited version. MTG's new sports channel TV10 took over the transmissions of other operators. History ZTV was initially also a combined radio station called Z-Radio. The sound from the television programme went out also in radio through a number of community radio frequencies around the country. ZTV began broadcasting on their own channel position in 1992 and was owned by MTG, who also owned TV3 (Sweden) and TV6 (Sweden). Aside from music videos the channel featured many shows produced in Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nöjesguiden
''Nöjesguiden'' (Swedish for "the entertainment guide") is a Nordic free-of-charge young adult monthly magazine, available in the major cities in Sweden, which was established in 1982. It is also published with similar format In Finland under the name '' City-lehti'' and in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ... under the name '' Natt og Dag''. Editors-in-chief *1982 – 1991 Ajje Ljungberg (founder) *1991 – 1995 Mattias Hansson (Stockholm) *1991 – 1994 Johan Croneman (Gothenburg/Malmö) *1991 – 1995 Martin Theander (Malmö/Gothenburg) *1994 –1996 Clara Mannheimer *1996 – 1999 Martin Jönsson *1999 – 2007 Daniel Sparr *2007 – 2008 Hannes Dükler *2008 – 2013 Margret Atladottir *2013 – 2015 Amat Levin * 2015 – 2018 Jenny N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Johansson (musician)
Johan Georg Johansson (born April 23, 1961 in Stockholm) is a writer and musician (drums, guitar, bass, vocal). He is most famous for his time as songwriter and drummer for the Swedish punk-rock band KSMB. Biography In 2008, Johansson was awarded the ''Svenska Vispriset'', an annual prize which is awarded to a person or organisation for developing and furthering the art of folk singing, by ''Riksförbundet Visan i Sverige''. He and his family moved from Hornsgatan to Hagsätra during his birth year. In 1970 he moved to Skärholmen in Stockholm. Johan has one child named Frans, with the writer Nina Lekander. Music The first band ''Ingenting'' (means "nothing" in Swedish) was formed 1974 and played covers of song by bands like The Who and Iggy & the Stooges. In 1977 the band Skärholmens Gymnasiums Punkensemble was formed, the band changed name and became later KSMB. Since the band was not so popular yet they played at the local clubs in Skärholmen, Stockholm in the beginn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
