Roger Wallis (8 August 1941 – 22 January 2022) was a British-born Swedish musician, journalist and researcher.

Life and career

Wallis was a resident of Sweden from 1963, and was an adjunct professor of multimedia at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Between 1967 and 1981, Wallis was the main presenter of the English language ''The Saturday Show'' on

Radio Sweden Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitt ...

. Wallis also co-wrote "

Judy, min vän Sweden chose their entrant for Eurovision Song Contest 1969 through Melodifestivalen 1969. A tie occurred between two songs, but after additional voting, the song "Judy, min vän" with Tommy Körberg was selected. It was written by Roger Wallis ...

", the Swedish contribution for the

Eurovision Song Contest 1969 The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Madrid, Spain, following the country's victory at the with the song "La, la, la" by Massiel. Organised by the European Broadcasting U ...

. He wrote several books on the music industry with

Krister Malm Krister Malm (born 1941) is a Swedish musicologist. Malm has in his research been engaged in music ethnology and finished his doctorate in 1981 at the University of Gothenburg with a dissertation on the music culture of the Tanzania. From 1973 to ...

. Wallis was appointed to the board of STIM. He testified in the

Pirate Bay trial The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay. The criminal charges were supported by a ...

in February 2009. Wallis died on 22 January 2022, at the age of 80.Roger Wallis är död

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Roger 1941 births 2022 deaths Swedish composers Swedish male composers Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology British emigrants to Sweden People from Rugby, Warwickshire