My Rainbow Race

1973

My Rainbow Race is a song by the American folk singer Pete Seeger. It was released in 1973 on his album Rainbow Race. A Norwegian version of singer-songwriter Lillebjørn Nilsen under the title Barn av Regnbuen ( Children of the Rainbow ) was published in the same year. She took 11 weeks for first place in the Norwegian charts and has been especially popular as a children's song.

Public singing in Oslo

On April 26, 2012 Nilsen played the song on the Youngstorget in Oslo. This was in response to a statement of the assassin Anders Behring Breivik during his court proceedings after the attacks in Norway in 2011: he had the song that peace and equality for all people propagated, referred to as " Marxist " propaganda that the " brainwashing " of Norwegian children will used. At a call on facebook towards gathered in Oslo and other cities in Norway over 40,000 people to sing together the song. The event was also attended by the Minister of Culture and Interior Minister of Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands - Anniken Huitfeldt, Paavo Arhinmäki, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Uffe Elbæk, Bjørn Kalso - and Halldór Ásgrímsson, the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers, in part.

Pete Seeger appeared agitated about the effect that unfolded his song in Norway, and let the assembled crowd by Nilsen align, that he wished them luck. On May 3, his 93rd birthday, he sang the song in an unofficial context, leaving Nilsen get a video recording of the information published on its website this.