Nikke Ström (born 8 June 1951) is a Swedish
rock
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musician, mostly known as the bass player in
Nationalteatern
Nationalteatern is a Swedish progg rock group from the 1970s that featured leftist political lyrics. It was originally a traveling theater ensemble with many members, most notably Ulf Dageby, Anders Melander, Totta Näslund, Nikke Ström, Hans M ...
.
Ström was born and raised in
Karlskoga
Karlskoga () is a locality and the seat of Karlskoga Municipality, Sweden. Located within Örebro County, 45 km (28 mi) west of Örebro, and 10 km (6 mi) north of Degerfors. With a 2020 population of 27,386 distributed over 10.55 square miles (27. ...
, where he played in different bands. In the beginning of 1970 he studied
philosophy
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at
Stockholm University
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. He had become politically active in the leftist movement against the
Vietnam War
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, and he was chairman of the
FNL group in his hometown Karlskoga.
Nikke Ström moved to
Gothenburg
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in 1971 and played in different leftist progg bands, including
Nynningen. He participated in the
Tent Project (Tältprojektet), a musical theater performance on the history of the Swedish working class, which toured the country the summer of 1977, and the same year he joined Nationalteatern as bass player in the "rock orchestra".
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strom, Nikke
1951 births
Living people
Swedish male musicians
Stockholm University alumni
People from Karlskoga Municipality