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Graham Tainton (born 17 September 1927 in South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
) is a Swedish dancer and choreographer
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
who came to Sweden in 1959 with a large music ensemble, ''The Golden City Dixies''. He married a Swede, and their oldest daughter Blossom Tainton-Lindquist
Blossom Alexandra Liliana Tainton-Lindquist (born 29 June 1962 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer, dancer, publisher, fitness coach and personal trainer.
Her father, Graham Tainton, is a choreographer. Tainton danced and sang at an early age. She ...
was born in 1962. He is also the father of entertainment celebrities Kelly Tainton, Themba Tainton and David Tainton and a cousin of Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including African popular music, Afropop, jazz, a ...
.
Tainton was ABBA
ABBA ( , , formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's ...
s choreographer and has more recently appeared in UR's ''Living Room'' where he accounted for his early years in South Africa with Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop ...
as his priest and Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...
the lawyer who got him out of prison under apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
. He has also been in the jury and appeared on a Swedish TV show called ''Floor Filler''. In 2016 88-year-old Tainton was honored and interviewed on the popular Let's Dance (Swedish TV series)
''Let's Dance'' is a Swedish dance competition featuring Swedish celebrities. It is a national version of ''Strictly Come Dancing''. The series has been broadcast for sixteen seasons on TV4. Hosts since 2021 are David Lindgren and Petra Mede
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.2016-04-08
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