Anders Erik Gillis Eljas (born 15 January 1953 in Stockholm [ citation needed ]) is a Swedish musician, orchestrator and conductor.
Anders Erik Gillis Eljas (born 15 January 1953 in Stockholm [ citation needed ]) is a Swedish musician, orchestrator and conductor.
He was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, [1] where he studied piano and violin, [2] began his musical career at Alexandra's [3] [4] and soon toured as keyboardist with Björn Skifs and on ABBA's world tours. [5] [1]
During the 1970s and 1960s, he worked as an orchestrator and arranger for a number of Swedish artists, including Lill-Babs, Lasse Berghagen, Elisabeth Söderström, and Sven-Bertil Taube. [2]
Eljas worked as a producer for CBS Records International (now Sony Music) [2] During the 1980s, he orchestrated the musical Chess , conducting the London Symphony Orchestra for a recording of the musical and a 1984 European tour. [2] In 1988, Eljas was also one of the orchestrators for the Broadway musical Carrie . [6]
Eljas has conducted and acted as musical director for musicals such as Guys and Dolls , Les Misérables , and Mamma Mia! , and was a conductor for many of Povel Ramel's musical revues. [1]
From 1978 to 1995, Eljas was often Sveriges Television's band leader for its shows.[ citation needed ] He was also a regular celebrity contestant on the popular charades show Gäster med gester on TV.[ citation needed ]
In 1995 he was responsible for the orchestration of Kristina från Duvemåla . [1]
Since 2000 he has lived with singer Wenche Myhre in Norway. [7] [8]
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Björn Kristian Ulvaeus is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA. He is also the co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! He co-produced the films Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with fellow ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson. He is the oldest member of the group.
Göran BrorBennyAndersson is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he worked also as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester.
The music of Sweden shares roots with its neighbouring countries in Scandinavia, as well as Eastern Europe, including polka, schottische, waltz, polska and mazurka. The Swedish fiddle and nyckelharpa are among the most common Swedish folk instruments. The instrumental genre is the biggest one in Sweden. In the 1960s, Swedish youth sparked a roots revival in Swedish folk culture. Many joined Spelmanslag and performed on mainstream radio and TV. They focused on instrumental polska music, with vocals and influences from other traditional genres becoming more prominent since the 1990s. By 1970, the "dansband" culture also began. Music in Sweden is a vital part of Swedish culture, as evidenced by the national success of musical shows like Allsång på Skansen and Melodifestivalen.
Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any real individuals, the character of the American grandmaster was loosely based on Bobby Fischer, while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.
Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor and musician. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role as Anatoly/"The Russian" in the musical Chess. He played the role on the 1984 concept album, and on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London, as well as several times since.
Emmaboda is a locality and the seat of Emmaboda Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden. It had 4,824 inhabitants in 2010.
Marie Helen Sjöholm is a Swedish singer, actress and musical theatre performer who lives in Gamla Enskede in Stockholm. She grew up in Sundsvall and started to sing in choirs at an early age, working, among others, with Swedish conductor Kjell Lönnå. By the end of the 1980s she toured with the group "Just for Fun".
Kristina från Duvemåla("Kristina from Duvemåla") is a Swedish musical written by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics) and Benny Andersson (music). It is based on a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century: The Emigrants (1949), Unto a Good Land (1952), The Settlers (1956), and The Last Letter Home (1959).
Benny Anderssons orkester is the first album by Benny Anderssons orkester, released in June 2001.
Jon Anders Ekborg is a Swedish actor and singer who has performed the roles of Karl Oskar in Kristina från Duvemåla and Freddie Trumper in Chess, two musicals that were written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. He has also acted in many Swedish-language versions of musicals, such as Jekyll and Hyde, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. He has been married to the actress Lia Boysen.
Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer, actor and musical artist.
Espen Grjotheim is a Norwegian singer and actor from Grimstad, living in Oslo. He has participated in a large number of stage, music and television productions, and has had leading roles in several of the largest musical theater productions in Norway.
Mono Music is a Swedish record label, established in 1987 by former ABBA member Benny Andersson.
Benny Andersson has been active as a recording artist since 1964, when he joined Swedish rock band The Hep Stars. With them, and more recently as a member of ABBA and Benny Anderssons Orkester, he became one of the most successful Swedish composers and artists. He also wrote the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla and Mamma Mia!.
Swedish singer and actress Helen Sjöholm made her first major recording in 1995/1996, when she played the role in Benny Andersson's and Björn Ulvaeus's epic musical Kristina från Duvemåla. Since then, she has contributed to many album recordings. However, only two solo-albums under her own name have been released in 2002 and 2010.
Euforia – Helen Sjöholm sjunger Billy Joel is an album by Swedish singer and actor Helen Sjöholm, released in November 2010. The album features 11 compositions by American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer Billy Joel, performed by Sjöholm. All songs are performed in Swedish, with lyrics written by Tomas Andersson Wij.
Maria Möller, born Andersson is a Swedish singer, actress, comedian, and imitator. Möller has been involved with theater groups in a variety of capacities. She has been an assistant director, tour leader, suffler, props manager, and actress. She made her acting debut in the Henning Mankell play Prinsen och Tiggaren at Västerbottensteatern, where she worked between 1984 and 1988. After that, she worked for six years at Kronobergsteatern in Växjö.
I Let The Music Speak is a compilation album by Swedish singer Anne Sofie von Otter.
Maria Mikaela Markuntytär Ylipää is a Finnish singer and actress, who has starred in the musical Kristina från Duvemåla and acted in the films Keisarikunta (2004) and Pietà (2007). She has also appeared in the television series Rikospoliisi Maria Kallio (2003), Tappajan näköinen mies (2011) and Luottomies (2016) as well as musical theatres Helsinki City Theatre, Tampere Workers' Theatre, Swedish Theatre, Gothenburg opera house and the Stockholm Cirkus.
Så som i himmelen is a 2018 musical with music and lyrics by Carin Pollak and Fredrik Kempe and book by Kay Pollak, Edward af Sillen and Carin Pollak. The story is based on the 2004 Swedish movie As It Is in Heaven by Kay Pollak. It tells the story of Daniel Daréus, a successful and world renowned conductor whose life aspiration is to create music that will open people's hearts. After suffering heart attack, he travels back to his hometown of Norrland in the far north of Sweden. Though resistant at first, he begins working with the local choir. They in return help him fix his outlook on life through community spirit and the love of music.
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