Per Artur Erikson (5 March 1918 – 5 August 2000) was a Swedish singer and preacher, active within the

Mission Covenant Church of Sweden The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska Missionskyrkan), founded in 1878, was a Swedish evangelical free church. It was the second-largest Protestant denomination in Sweden, after the national church, the Church of Sweden. In 2011, t ...

. As well as

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, he also sang songs where

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's poems had been set to music. His most successful release was "Till min syster", which featured in the top 10-chart

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for 12 weeks in 1970.

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1918 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Swedish male singers People from Älvkarleby Municipality {{sweden-singer-stub