Per "Pelle" Almqvist (born 29 May 1978), also known as Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer of
garage rock band
The Hives
The Hives are a Swedish rock band that rose to prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the album '' Veni Vidi Vicious'', containing the single "Hate to Say I Told You So". ...
.
Biography
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Almqvist was born to a doctor father and a teacher mother. Almqvist and his brother
Nicholaus Arson formed the band in 1993, and, according to a fictional biography about the band, attracted the attention of promoter/manager/songwriter Randy Fitzsimmons. Prior to success with the Hives he worked as a postman and a sixth-grade teacher.
Almqvist is known for being particularly animated during live shows, and his onstage antics have earned the band the title of "The best live band in the world" from ''
Spin Magazine
''Spin'' (stylized in all caps) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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'', which also puts Almqvist in their list of the "50 Greatest Frontmen of All Time". Some of his onstage antics include regularly mixing with the crowd, climbing on amps/ladders/stairs, and saying very ridiculous, nonsensical and seemingly arrogant things between songs.
Almqvist was previously in a relationship with
Maria Andersson (lead vocalist of the Swedish rock band
Sahara Hotnights
Sahara Hotnights are a Swedish rock band from Robertsfors, Sweden. Their style incorporates elements of garage rock, power pop and punk.
History
The band formed sometime around 1991/1992, "due to boredom". While in Australia, Josephine Forsm ...
) until a 2006 breakup. Since May 2010 he has been in a relationship with
Catrin Nilsson.
In January 2007, Almqvist led the
P3 Guld
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Entertainment
* ''Persona 3'', a 2006 video game
* '' Postal III'', a 2011 video game
* ''Third'' (Portishead album), 2008 music album
* P3 Club, a fictional nightclub in the television series '' Charmed''
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Awards.
In 2016, he presented
Musikhjälpen
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which was broadcast from
Örebro
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.
Almqvist is a
vegetarian
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Vegetariani ...
and an
atheist.
In 2021, he took part in the sixth season of the Swedish game show ''
Alla mot alla med Filip och Fredrik'', with teammate
Little Jinder.
Collaborations
Almqvist performed a collaboration with Swedish rock artist
Moneybrother
Anders Olof Wendin (born 16 March 1975, Norrtälje, Sweden) is a Swedish rock musician, best known for his solo project Moneybrother.
Career
After the split-up of his ska-punk band Monster, Wendin took a new direction and released Moneybrother ...
, a cover of an
Operation Ivy song "Freeze Up". They used Swedish lyrics and called it "", which translates as "I Won't Sign Anything". He was also the featured singer in the DJ Duo
Punks Jump Up
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
* Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture ...
single "Dance to our Disco".
Discography
*''
Barely Legal'' (1997)
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Veni Vidi Vicious
''Veni Vidi Vicious'' is the second studio album by Swedish rock band the Hives. The album was released on 10 April 2000 through Burning Heart and Epitaph. It was later re-released on 30 April 2002 through Sire and Gearhead. The Japanese relea ...
'' (2000)
*''
Tyrannosaurus Hives
''Tyrannosaurus Hives'' is the third full-length album by the Hives, released on 20 July 2004. It is their first album since ''Veni Vidi Vicious'' from 2000, and also their first original release on a major label.
If the front cover of the albu ...
'' (2004)
*''
The Black and White Album
''The Black and White Album'' is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band The Hives. The track listing for ''The Black and White Album'' was confirmed on the band's German website on 13 September 2007, and later through ''NME''. The Hives ...
'' (2007)
*''
Lex Hives
''Lex Hives'' is the fifth full-length album by Swedish rock band The Hives. The album was released on 1 June 2012 in Sweden, and internationally from 4 June 2012.
''Lex Hives'' was self-produced by The Hives and mixed by Grammy Award winner An ...
'' (2012)
References
External links
Official website of The HivesOfficial FacebookOfficial MySpace
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1978 births
English-language singers from Sweden
Living people
People from Fagersta Municipality
Swedish atheists
Swedish male singers
Swedish rock singers
Swedish tenors
The Hives members
21st-century Swedish singers
Swedish songwriters
People from Västanfors