Pugh Rogefeldt
Pugh Rogefeldt ( born March 2, 1947 in Västerås, when Anders Sture Torbjörn Rogefeldt ) is a Swedish musician, singer and songwriter.
Career
Rogefeldt sang in his childhood in the church choir before he played in his youth in various blues bands. In the late 1960s he sent demo tapes, only the record company Metronome showed interest. Meanwhile he had been drafted into military service, however, so that he had illegally removed from the force to take up his 1968 published debut single " Haru vart på cirkus " for which he was rewarded with a three-month prison sentence.
In 1969, Rogefeldt with guitarist George Wadenius and drummer and later actor Jan Karlsson of the Progressive band Hansson and Karlsson released his debut album " Yes, De ä Den ", which became a commercial success in Sweden and there received a Grammy. His following albums were characterized by a mix of blues rock, jazz, funk and folk. He celebrated primarily in the 1970s successes, taking the time collaborated with several well-known Swedish musicians from various genres such as Peps Persson, Janne Schaffer Ola or Magnell. From the middle of the decade, he worked with the band Rain skirt.
1978 Rogefeldt tried with the song " Nattmara " in the national qualification for the Euro Vision Song Contest, but failed, among other things behind the eventual participants Björn Skifs. In addition, he separated from his band and joined as a solo artist to EMI. As a result, the creeping descent began in the career Rogefeldts before it with the self-titled album " Pugh Rogefeldt " again celebrated a minor success after the reunion with rain skirt mid-1980s.
Once again silence was to Rogefeldt in the episode, he returned with the supergroup Grymlings he made together with his countrymen Mikael Rickfors, Magnus Lindberg and Göran bearing mountain, into the limelight and released a short time later with " Människors Hantverk " own solo album. After this it sold, however, he had earned the supergroup project money, he sat down to rest first. Was published in 1999 with " Pugh Maraton " another album in the same year there was a duet with rapper Petter Askergren on its triple -platinum album " Bananrepubliken ".
Published in 2003 Rogefeldt a best-of album, with which he was among the top ten in the Swedish charts. Buoyed by the success two years later he published with the support of Sylvester Schlegel of The Ark and Micke Lohse of Atomic Swing under the name " Opluggad Pugh 1" an album of acoustic versions of his most famous tracks. In 2008, he attacked again back on support from The Ark: produced by Martin Axén the album " Vinn Vinn Hjärta " climbed into the top twenty tracks of the Swedish chart, spending nine weeks in the charts.