Sven-Bertil Taube
Sven- Bertil Gunnar Evert Taube ( pronunciation: [ ˌ svɛn bæʈil to ː b ] * November 24, 1934 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer and actor.
Life and work
Sven- Bertil Taube is the son of famous Swedish poet and singer Evert Taube. He attended school first in Stockholm, but then switched to a school in the U.S., where he also graduated from the school in 1954. From 1959 to 1964 Sven- Bertil Taube made in Stockholm training as an actor, he also took lessons in Spain in the guitar-playing.
As early as 1954, yet in the U.S., took Sven- Bertil Taube his first record on, and that his father's songs Evert Taube. In Sweden played Sven- Bertil Taube from 1959 many records especially with Swedish songs, where he - revolutionary for its time - was accompanied by a chamber orchestra. Many of these recordings, including songs by Carl Michael Bellman, Nils Ferlin, Erik Axel Karlfeldt and, not least, Evert Taube, are now considered classics. The effect of these recordings is due not least to the refined orchestral arrangements by Ulf Björlin, Sven- Bertil Taube's childhood friend.
Sven- Bertil Taube lives for a long time in London and performed since the 1970s, often in British and American films, plays, musicals and television series. Since the 1990s, Sven- Bertil Taube also plays amplified in Swedish films, so in Bille August's film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem from the year 1996. Recently, he played in the Swedish film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel veneer (men som hatar kvinnor ) the industrialist Henrik Vanger.