Role Singer Spouse Maya Wiehe | Years active 1958 Siblings Thomas Wiehe Name Mikael Wiehe | |
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Born 10 April 1946 (age 78) ( 1946-04-10 ) Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, singer Labels Amalthea, Silence Records, Mistlur Records, MNW, W Records, Norske Gram, Diesel Music, Forente Artister, Transmission, Premium Publishing Albums Bjorn Afzelius & Mikael Wiehe, Dylan pa svenska Similar People Bjorn Afzelius, Ebba Forsberg, Totta Naslund, Timbuktu, Bob Dylan | ||
Birth name Mikael Christian Wiehe | ||
Mikael wiehe t rnrosa sleeping beauty
Mikael Christian Wiehe (born 10 April 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was also one of the most important people in the progg movement.
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- Mikael wiehe t rnrosa sleeping beauty
- Mikael wiehe ge aleksandersen s ng till friheten live nrk 2008
- Career
- 60th birthday tribute
- Political views
- Studio albums
- Compilation Albums
- References
Mikael wiehe ge aleksandersen s ng till friheten live nrk 2008
Career
Wiehe's father was Danish and he spent the first six years of his life in Copenhagen. His father left the family when he was 5 years old, and when he was 6 his mother moved with the family to Malmö, in the Scania region of southern Sweden, giving Wiehe his noticeable Scanian accent. He is a leftist folk musician, dealing with what he considers right and wrong in the society from the eyes of the proletariat, but he also writes personal, non-political songs.
Wiehe was one of the lead singers and the leading songwriter of Hoola Bandoola Band in the 1970s. After the split of the group in 1975, he was the leader of various other bands before becoming a solo artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He was a close friend of Björn Afzelius, the other lead singer of Hoola Bandoola Band. They sometimes toured around Scandinavia and recorded together in the 1980s and 90s.
Today, Wiehe performs all around Sweden, using material from his 20-some albums (excluding various compilations). A recently published song book contains the lyrics and melodies to 220 of his songs. In 2000, he released the single Det här är ditt land, a Swedish-language adaptation of the Woody Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land which received substantial play on Swedish radio. Wiehe has also translated many of Bob Dylan's songs into Swedish some were performed by Totta Näslund.
60th birthday tribute
On Wiehe's 60th birthday, a tribute show was held in his hometown Malmö. A number of high-profile Swedish artists, including Joakim Thåström, Lars Winnerbäck, Dregen, Lisa Ekdahl, Timbuktu, Stefan Sundström, Idde Shultz & Anna Stadling (of Hovet), Ebba Forsberg, Thomas Wiehe and Peter Clemmendson, performed Wiehe's songs in front of approximately 20,000 people. At the end of the show, Wiehe took the stage and performed a set of his favorite songs. The concert was later broadcast on Sveriges Television with interviews and older footage of Wiehe.
Political views
On 24 February 2007, Wiehe performed at a festival in Malmö, labeled as a "solidarity party for the Cuban Revolution", which was organized by the Swedish-Cuban Association, the Revolutionary Communist Youth, the Swedish Communist Party and others. The ambassador of Cuba to Sweden, Ernesto Meléndez Bachs, also held a speech at the festival. In an interview in Kvällsposten, Wiehe said that "Cuba has the best record on human rights in the region" and in an interview with Sveriges Radio he said that he would "hesitate" to label the country as a dictatorship.
In 2015 Wiehe received Jan Myrdals Lenin Prize, controversial due to its namesake Vladimir Lenin.
Studio albums
Hoola Bandoola Band
Mikael Wiehe och Kabaréorkestern
Mikael Wiehe, Nyberg, Franck och Fjellis
Mikael Wiehe och Co
Solo work
Björn Afzelius och Mikael Wiehe
Mikael Wiehe och Julio Numhauser
Totta och Wiehe
Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg
Åge Aleksandersen & Mikael Wiehe
Mikael Wiehe & Jacques Werup