Kjell Höglund (born 8 December 1945 in
Östersund
Östersund (; sma, Staare) is an urban area (city) in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth-largest lake, Storsjön, ...
, Sweden) is a Swedish singer-songwriter.
Höglund, who found his musical breakthrough in the 1970s, is in his native country renowned for his mixture of
realism
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In the arts
*Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts
Arts movements related to realism include:
*Classical Realism
*Literary realism, a move ...
,
absurdism
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and
surrealism
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.
In 1992 he was nominated for a
Grammis award for best male pop.
Kjell Höglund has also published books with esoteric and pseudo-scientific content.
Many of Höglund's beliefs presented in these works are similar to those of the Danish new age mystic
Martinus.
Selected songs
* Jag hör hur dom ligger med varandra i våningen ovanför (Translation of title: ''I can hear them sleeping with each other in the flat above'')
* Genesarets sjö (Translation of title: ''
Lake of Gennesaret
The Sea of Galilee ( he, יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ar, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias, Kinneret or Kinnereth, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest ...
'')
* Man vänjer sig (Translation of title: ''One gets used to it'')
* Holländsk Genever (Translation of title: ''
Dutch Gin
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'')
* Häxprocessen (Translation of title: ''The witch process'')
* Desertör (Translation of title: ''Deserter'')
* Maskinerna är våra vänner (Translation of title: ''The machines are our friends'')
Selected albums
* Undran (1971)
* Blomstertid (1972)
* Häxprocess (1973)
* Inkognito (1995)
* Kryptonit (2001)
* Pandoras ask (2006)
* Baskervilles hund ALP-4 (1974)
* Hjärtat sitter till vänster ALP-7 (1975)
* Doktor Jekylls testamente ALP-11 (1979)
* Vägen mot Shangri-La ALP-12 (1980)
* Tidens tecken ALP-15/AMC-15/ACD-15 (1984)
* Hemlig kärlek ALP-16/AMC-16 (1986)
* Ormens år ALPCD-18 (1989)
* Höglund Forever ALP-22/ACD-22 (1992)
* Inkognito ACD-26 (1995)
* Glöd ALP-17/ACD-17 (1988)
* Lokomotiv ACD-23 (1994)
Bibliography
* Brända skepp (1987)
* Magnum Opus (1991)
* Det sicilianska sigillet (1997)
* Genomträngningen (1999)
* Den förbjudna boken: en ny teori om Nostradamus profetior (2000)
* Det snöar i Edens lustgård (2005)
* Ando-Random Haglund (2013)
External links
Kjell Höglund's web site(In Swedish)
1945 births
Living people
Swedish male singers
Swedish male songwriters
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