Bo Sigfrid ("Bosse") Parnevik (born 20 March 1938, in Gothenburg) [1] is a Swedish impersonator, revue artist and comedian. He is member of Lokalrevyer i Sverige and gives the Parnevik Scholarship to good revue artists every year. His son is professional golfer Jesper Parnevik.
Parnevik moved with his family from Gothenburg to Munkfors when he was 2 years old. There, he started his career as an artist by performing imitations at youth clubs as a teenager. He debuted on a TV program that was broadcast from Nalen in Stockholm on 31 December 1957, together with artists such as Charlie Norman, Ingemar Johansson and Povel Ramel.
Parnevik was a good athlete and moved to Stockholm where he studied to be a gymnastic director. His talent became well-known after his performance at the Folkparkernas Artistforum in Västerås in 1959. He appeared on the radio program Karusellen in 1963 and on the TV program Hvar fjortonde dag from 1965 to 1967. By the late 60s, Parnevik was so established that he did about 300 performances at folkparks from May to September. In 1971, he made his first TV program Harpsundspartaj. From 1978 to 1979, he hosted Party hos Parnevik, which became very popular.
His most memorable performances were when he prank called entertainment programs and spoke in another person's voice. Besides this, he was skilled in wearing masks which made him look like another person, such as Magnus Härenstam, Bengt Bedrup, Sven-Bertil Taube, Lennart Bodström, Olof Palme and Ingemar Mundebo.
Together with Hasse Wallman, Parnevik later established himself as restaurateur and bought restaurants in Stockholm such as Bacchi Wapen . Later he was partner of Chinateatern, where he performed in his first revue show Parneviks revyparty, along with Siw Malmkvist, Lars Amble and Grynet Molvig, among others. In 1987, he performed the revue Parneviks Oscarsparty at Oscarsteatern. From 1993 to 1994, he performed Parneviks Cirkusparty at the Cirkus in Stockholm.
In November 2007, his revue Parneviks gubbröra premiered at Maximteatern.
Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, also known simply as Frida, is a Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA. Courtesy titles Princess Reuss and Countess of Plauen are also in use because of her third marriage. Born in Bjørkåsen, Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden, and started her first solo career there, as a jazz singer in 1967, through a talent competition called New Faces.
Teddybears is a Swedish music group formed in Stockholm in 1991. The group consists of members Patrik Arve, Joakim Åhlund, and Klas Åhlund. Initially starting as a hardcore punk band, Teddybears began to incorporate a variety of sounds from hip hop, pop, rock, dancehall, and electronica after a few years.
Melodifestivalen is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959. In the early 2000s, the competition was the most popular television program in Sweden; it is also broadcast on radio and the Internet. In 2012, the heats averaged 3.3 million viewers, and over an estimated four million people in Sweden watched the final, almost half of the Swedish population.
Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American in its entire 27-year first run—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2000 and 2001.
Darin Zanyar, known simply as Darin, is a Kurdish-Swedish pop singer and songwriter born in Stockholm. He first came into prominence on the television talent show Idol. Darin has released nine studio albums, eight of which have gone to number 1, making him one of Sweden's most successful recording artists. His most recent album, En annan jag, was released in 2023.
The Rolling Thunder Revue was a 1975–76 concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with numerous musicians and collaborators. The purpose of the tour was to allow Dylan, who was a major recording artist and concert performer, to play in smaller auditoriums in less populated cities where he could be more intimate with his audiences.
The Ark are a Swedish glam rock band formed in 1991 and disbanded in 2011. They released five studio albums and became one of the most successful groups in Scandinavia. They made their breakthrough in 2000 with the song "It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane", and since then several hit songs followed; they reunited in 2020.
Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.
Maj Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors is a Swedish singer who has performed in Scandinavia since the 1960s.
Henriette Sophie Widerberg was a Swedish opera singer (soprano) and memoirist. She was an elite member of the Royal Swedish Opera and its prima donna for over twenty years. She was appointed Hovsångare in 1837.
Caroline Lisette Stenberg was a Swedish stage actress, singer and pianist. She was a popular stage celebrity artist in Gustavian era Stockholm, and a star of the Stenborg Theatre. She was not only an actress but also a singer and a musician, and played piano forte between the acts.
Ingemar Lindh is a theatre director and pedagogue.
Susanne Maria "Sussie" Eriksson is a Swedish singer and actress. Eriksson has worked in a number of musicals and had the lead role in the comedy series, c/o Segemyhr for five seasons, and also participated in the singing show Sing-A-Long.
Glenmark Eriksson Strömstedt (GES) is a Swedish supergroup formed in 1994. The group's line-up comprises Anders Glenmark, Orup and Niklas Strömstedt, whose last names begin with the letters forming the trio's name. During 1994 and 1995, the group achieved many list successes in Sweden, and has since then been active in periods.
Bengt Erik Helge Bedrup was a Swedish journalist and television personality.
Moki Cherry was a Swedish interdisciplinary artist and designer who worked in textiles, fashion design, woodworks, painting, collage, ceramics, and set design. Her practice traversed the worlds of art, music, and theater with diverse influences such as Indian art and music, Tibetan Buddhism, fashion, traditional folk arts and dress, abstraction, cartoons, and Pop art. From 1977 she split her time living between Tågarp, Sweden and Long Island City in New York, USA. Moki collaborated with her husband, the American jazz trumpeter, Don Cherry, throughout her lifetime – they performed in concerts as Organic Music, where her artworks were also displayed, and ran workshops for children. Her designs also appeared on Don's album covers and as costumes worn by him in concert.
Inga-Britt Margareta Fredholm was a Swedish secretary, archivist and author. She spent more than ten years serving as Evert Taube’s literary secretary, both in Sweden and abroad. She collected and edited Taube's stories for Bonniers' and contributed a total of twenty pieces of work on the national poet.
Karen Margrete Maria (Lulu) Ziegler was a Danish actress, singer and theatre director who was active in both Denmark and Sweden. She gained fame as a cabaret singer in the 1930s, enchanting her audiences in her own expressive style. In 1942, after attracting anti-German support at her cabaret in central Copenhagen, she was forced to flee to Sweden where she continued her highly popular anti-Nazi performances in revues. After the war, she returned to Denmark where she was welcomed as a heroine. When her popularity waned in the 1950s, she returned to Sweden, performing in the cabaret restaurant Hamburger Börs. There she directed shows with performances including Lars Forssell's increasingly popular chansons. She later devoted her skills to theatre management, directing shows in Gothenburg and Odense where she staged the musical Cabaret in 1968.
Lia Schubert (1926–2016) was a dancer, choreographer and instructor who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna. To escape anti-Semitism, the family moved first to Zagreb and in 1938 to Paris where she studied ballet. After narrowly escaping Nazi persecution during World War II, she moved to Malmö, Sweden, in 1950 and to Stockholm in 1953. In 1957, she founded the Ballet Academy at Stockholm University. She moved to Israel in 1968 where together with Caj Lottman she founded the Institute for Dance in Haifa. In the 1980s, she moved back to Sweden where she initiated the Dansteater Thalia in Gothenburg. Suffering from poor health, she retired in 1997 and died two years later at her home in Fåglavik.
| Authority control databases: Artists |
|---|
