Sport Fencing Name Barbara Helsingius | Role Singer | |
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Albums The Treasure In the Closet, Barbara, Olipa kerran Similar People Maini Sorri, Frida Andersson, Veli Lehto, Kai Lind, Seija Karpiomaa | ||
Barbara helsingius kuparipannu 1968
Barbara Christina Elisabeth Helsingius-Koski (née Helsingius; 27 September 1937 – 9 March 2017) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish singer, poet, and Olympic fencer.
Contents
- Barbara helsingius kuparipannu 1968
- Barbara Helsingius Nelj vahvaa tuulta Four strong winds
- Career
- Death
- Prizes
- Books
- Discography
- References
Barbara Helsingius: Neljä vahvaa tuulta (Four strong winds)
Career
She participated at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Trained as a gym teacher, she took her masters in pedagogy at Stanford University (1963). Interested in American art and folk music, she began to record, and her first release, Barbara (1966), was a collection of American folk songs, translated to Finnish.
She became well-known internationally, and was a member of Visens venner in Norway, of Visans Vänner in Helsinki, and Yrkestrubadurernas Förening in Sweden, part of the Svenska Visakademien (1999; its only Finn), and the joint Nordic cultural organisation NordVisa.
From 1968–75, she lived in Oslo with her husband, Henry William “Hank” Koski, a diplomat at the U.S. embassy. She was the mother of two daughters. Her family lives in Espoo.
Death
Helsingius died following a long illness on 9 March 2017 in Espoo, Finland at the age of 79.
Prizes
