Nikke Ström (born 8 June 1951) is a Swedish rock musician, mostly known as the bass player in Nationalteatern. 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 ...

, where he played in different bands. In the beginning of 1970 he studied philosophy at

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. He had become politically active in the leftist movement against the

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, and he was chairman of the

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in his hometown Karlskoga. Nikke Ström moved to Gothenburg in 1971 and played in different leftist progg bands, including

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. He participated in the

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(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".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Strom, Nikke 1951 births Living people Swedish male musicians Stockholm University alumni People from Karlskoga Municipality